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1: I'm sorry. It's my responsibility to somehow stop these things but I suck at it.
2: It is wrong to start a war. They have already hit civilian targets, killed children.
3: The president starting a war without a declaration by the Congress is criminal.
4: Iran was not threatening the United States in any way.
5: Israel is not a state in the Union, nor even a treaty ally, nor even a faithful friend.
6: No one in power believes their own lies that Iran was making nukes or was about to start to try or anything of the sort. It's a completely fake pretext for war. Their program was nearly "obliterated" last June and they offered in recent days to refrain from enrichment for 3-5 years and then to limit it's purity to only 1.5% u-235, completely and totally nullifying that pretext. Perhaps that's why Trump attacked now, to prevent Witkoff from actually accomplishing something acceptable.
7: Iran does not have and is not anywhere near having missiles that can reach the U.S.
8: The fact that the president has to invoke the Beirut bombing of 1983 as a pretext just goes to show that he has nothing like a case for defensive or "pre-emptive" war of any kind. It's simple aggression.
9: They have no plan for who to install in power there. The monarchists and MEK cultists are a complete joke. Kurdish commies are no better.
10: They and the bin Ladenites in AQ and ISIS are certainly thrilled at their new opportunity to slaughter their enemies though. Enough bombs could destroy the state, but not replace it. A permanent Syria-style civil war would be just fine with Tel Aviv and therefore Washington.
11: Iran has already hit a US base in Bahrain and launched attacks at others across the region.
12: If the Ayatollahs Khamenei or Sistani announce a new religious obligation on the part of their followers to attack the West, they will have an army far greater than bin Laden or Baghdadi could have dreamed of. Most of our recent wars have benefited them, so they haven't had the need to. Now, who knows what might happen, but it is certainly not worth the risk.
13: Israel also played this sort of crucial role in America's invasion of Iraq 23 years ago, but way under the radar compared to now. Resent it.
14: Here's me refuting lies about Iran's nuclear program 16 years ago. For all the good it's ever done.
I’ve been watching Illinois basketball for way too long in my life. Keaton Wagler just delivered the best individual performance I’ve ever seen in an #Illini uniform.
During WW2 US intelligence (ONI and OSS/later CIA) struck a partnership with organized crime. After WW2 that partnership continued through the drug trade which was used to fund anti-communist activities. This, along with links to corporate America, is the basis of the US deep state. It continues to the present, has never been rooted out or dealt with, and still impacts US politics in ways that are mostly unacknowledged or denied by politicians and corporate media
you're telling me a guy named Michael struck someone calling himself Mr Beast and nearly felled him in one blow? And I'm supposed to just move on like it means nothing?
I keep saying- besides this being a genocide by the US due to funding, arms, & intelligence-
A lot of the IDF itself r straight from Chicago, NYC, New Jersey. Netanyahu is from Philly.
The Gaza Family Torn Apart By IDF Snipers From Chicago and Munich
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