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I hope I’m wrong about Trump bombing Iran
American Thinker ^ | June 23, 2025 | By Shawn A. Means

Posted on 06/23/2025 2:59:43 PM PDT by Kazan

I hope I’m wrong that the war drummers demanding an immediate strike because the ‘window of opportunity is now’ are all based on dubious or simply nonexistent evidence. Tulsi Gabbard et al. was evidently wrong that Iran is not assembling and mounting a nuclear device on a delivery system to unleash on Israel — much less the United States — now.

I hope I’m wrong that the decades-long histrionics claiming Iran is merely months, weeks, days, hours, minutes (seconds?) away from obtaining a nuclear device by Netanyahu, et al. is yet again demonstrably false fear mongering.

I hope I’m wrong that the media-corporate-elite are just manipulating the American public again with another fabricated justification for expending American military lives and American taxpayer resources on the scale of trillions of dollars. Hopefully, this will not be yet another blood-soaked and ultimately disastrous failure, where destroying an ‘existential threat’ to the ‘free’ world manifests a horror like the murderous orgy of ISIS after the debacle of Iraq.

I hope I’m wrong that the IDF and IAF won’t be enough, forcing the ‘necessary’ deployment of USAF resources that are the ‘only’ means to deliver the ‘necessary’ bunker buster bombs for eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat. Unfortunately, uranium already enriched in Iranian possession, easily transported and hidden in canisters throughout the entire country (and likely transported by truck beforehand), was probably not destroyed by the barrage of bunker-busting anyway. How long until we see Israeli or U.S. special forces scrambling around Iran searching under every rock, tree and couch cushion — just to be sure?

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I hope I’m wrong that we will be forced to watch yet another disaster by unaccountable war mongers prostituting themselves for ideology or profit after orchestrating endless disasters of intervention from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Syria and Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 06/23/2025 2:59:43 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

If you’re against it... You are wrong. These nuclear facilities should’ve been bombed when they started the foundations back during Clinton administration.


2 posted on 06/23/2025 3:01:29 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Kazan

Man, you must spend time searching for these “doomer” stories positioning the US as the bad guys.

Give it a rest. We are winning this one.


3 posted on 06/23/2025 3:03:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Kazan

He’s right about China.
Now, if we can just cut them off from their Iranian oil...


4 posted on 06/23/2025 3:05:13 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Kazan

Why do we need to give attention to these kind of unhinged ramblings?


5 posted on 06/23/2025 3:07:21 PM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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To: Kazan

“Tulsi Gabbard et al. was evidently wrong that Iran is not assembling and mounting a nuclear device on a delivery system to unleash on Israel — much less the United States — now.”

She was not wrong. Iran was not “assembling and mounting a nuclear device on a delivery system”

As she testified three months ago, Iran had reached alarming levels of enrichment.

They were days away from reaching bomb grade material which could be dispersed and hidden away from detection to later “assemble and mount a nuclear device on a delivery system”.


6 posted on 06/23/2025 3:07:32 PM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: Kazan

the crazy Irani dictators in possession of nuclear bombs would be worse than giving Jack the Ripper a power saw

especially for USA given how the mullahs have made their intentions crystal clear about nuking American cities FIRST, before they turn their attention to their other planned targets

when an insane dictator threatens, history teaches it pays to listen and take the necessary action(s) to prevent him from being able to destroy you

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure


7 posted on 06/23/2025 3:08:03 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: JayGalt

Is Scott Ritter pedo or that Armstrong weirdo going to be quoted all the time too from these types?


8 posted on 06/23/2025 3:09:06 PM PDT by Polanski
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To: Vermont Lt

Here are the American Thinker credentials of the writer

His apparent concerns about the unpopularity of “public servants” should tell us all we need to know about Kazan’s pick

Dr. Means is a mathematical biologist and Christian apologist with numerous publications in scientific journals, marveling at the wholesale redefinition of “public servant” in America into “unaccountable overlord.”


9 posted on 06/23/2025 3:10:37 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Kazan

I do not want any boots on the ground, or nation building, or “forever war for forever peace”. I was against Iraq 1.

That said, there is a Fordow site, the Iranians were doing something there and it wasn’t a gold mining operation, and they have been promising to destroy us for a long time.

The only thing I would have done differently than Trump, assuming he believed substantially honest intelligence reports that I do not get to see, is I would not have suggested regime change. That’s for the Iranians to decide.

We wisely left the oil ports and fields and population centers, and even Khameini himself alone.

I didn’t like Trump bombing Syria, but no one pretended that was WWIII. We set back whatever they were doing substantially. We allowed them to fire some pea shooters back at us to save face. Fine, they have the “last word”. We can leave it at that. Israel can handle whatever other mischief she wants to.


10 posted on 06/23/2025 3:10:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Kazan

Bla bla bla bla bla

We’re picking up take out Italian

Trump is very smart, well informed, makes good decisions, has the best team, is underrated and everyone who thinks they’re better or knows someone better at fulfilling the oath of the office of the presidency than President Trump is wrong.

My auto correct goes to Biden when I enter President’ but I have to type in every letter of Trump
That should tell you everything you need to know


11 posted on 06/23/2025 3:11:15 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Kazan

Dr. Means is a mathematical biologist and Christian apologist with numerous publications in scientific journals, marveling at the wholesale redefinition of “public servant” in America into “unaccountable overlord.”


12 posted on 06/23/2025 3:11:26 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Old West Conservative

American Thinker is a place for amateurs who cannot figure out how to write a blog, to post to a blog.

Most of the articles are unreadable nonsense.


13 posted on 06/23/2025 3:13:20 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Kazan

Hope in one hand and defecate in the other and see which one fills up first.
Ridiculous article.


14 posted on 06/23/2025 3:13:30 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Kazan

All we have is hope....trying to trust what’s going on...in the final analysis,faith hope and trust is all we can hang on to.


15 posted on 06/23/2025 3:14:01 PM PDT by cherry
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To: jerod

Exactly. This “Iran-nukes” nonsense has been a political football since the Carter administration fouled up the hostage rescue mission. Obama poured gasoline on the flames, Trump is the fireman.

As Stormy Daniel’s lawyer used to say: “Basta!”.

Enough.


16 posted on 06/23/2025 3:14:30 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: Vermont Lt

That definitely explains it! The post was just a copy and paste from Dem and hyper-isolationist talking points


17 posted on 06/23/2025 3:15:13 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Kazan

18 posted on 06/23/2025 3:16:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Kazan

“I hope I’m wrong that the media-corporate-elite are just manipulating the American public again with another fabricated justification for expending American military lives and American taxpayer resources on the scale of trillions of dollars.”

I am beginning to lose respect for all these conservative pundits. As Vance said, Trump deserves leeway for what he did, and as Rubio said, with Iran working diligently to acquire a bomb simultaneously working feverishly to develop an ICBM, does the exact timetable to the day and hour matter?

These people want to be seen as Nostradamus.

I caught a little of Steve Bannon this morning. For a very long time I have heard him say the Deep State is the Intellegience Community, and the Intellegience Community is the Deep State trying to destroy Trump. Well, today he was agreeing with an ex-CIA operative that the IC had written a report on the bomb-making objectives of the Iranians and that they were not trying to develop a bomb, as opposed to what the Mossad claimed. Now, all of a sudden, according to Bannon, the IC has written a report blessed by Divine unction. No longer do we need to suspect the IC, they are the last bastion of patriotism trying to save us from Trump.


19 posted on 06/23/2025 3:19:11 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Vermont Lt

Most of the time American Thinker has good commentary.


20 posted on 06/23/2025 3:19:50 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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