Middle East

[rockgremlin]

I heard those Russian bods are fun lovin' and hot, yes.

Queue Iceaxe posting images of hot scantily clad Russian women in 3...2...1...

[oldno7]

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Not sure how accurate.

[Scott Card]

This is the right response.

"UDPATE: President Donald Trump says the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was not undertaken in an effort to begin a conflict with Iran.


Speaking to reporters in Florida for the first time since the drone strike on Soleimani, Trump says: “We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.”


Trump also says he does not seek regime change in Iran, but the nation’s use of “proxy fighters to destabilize its neighbors must end and it must end now.”


Trump adds that targets of possible retaliation have been identified “and I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary.”

https://www.ksl.com/article/46699075...-war-with-iran

[dougrz]

This is the right response

No question, beautiful. Not only is it right, but those words play well because I'd bet 75% of the public supports that position.

The other 25% are neocon war party members or Ilhan Omar Iran supporting traitors.

[oldno7]

This is the right response.

Are you sure

I was just looking at my checkbook balance and getting ready to help send a couple hundred billion more dollars to iran.

[dougrz]

Are you sure

I was just looking at my checkbook balance and getting ready to help send a couple hundred billion more dollars to iran.

I hear you. Lindsey Graham and the War Party hawks want that. Trump at his word says this is for the acts they committed, not to goad a war. I think that's fair. Drone strikes and Tomahawks and hell raising are fair in my mind, but not full war.

Now, if Trump pulls a wag the dog, bad, bad news for his voting coalition, yes.

[oldno7]

Yea--there are some---cough---cough--bolton.... graham,mccain^^^^^

luckily at least one has no voice in this.

[Scott Card]

I do not believe that our country has the stomach for a war with Iran..........unless they attack us in a major way. These precision strikes are morally palatable for most so long as a reasonable explanation is given and the US response is measured response that kills bad guys, not a bunch of civilians.

[oldno7]

Sounds like several other high ranking iranians are being taken out as we speak, one in Yemen, another North of Baghdad.

[twotimer]

Sounds like several other high ranking iranians are being taken out as we speak, one in Yemen, another North of Baghdad.

Just letting them know we've got eyes in the skies all over the place. Every time these guys use their phones or get in a car we've got a little red dot on 'em.

Probably been that way for a while...they just took it too far. Obviously, poking Trump with a stick is not a good idea.

[Iceaxe]

Obviously, poking Trump with a stick is not a good idea.

I just can't believe so many people have yet to figure that out... Trump has a lot of Niccolo Machiavelli in him.



Climb-Utah.com

[twotimer]

Indeed...political realism vs. political idealism. Trump is a realist...that's why I like him so much. He's not one of them...he's not like all these other men have been.

The problem with idealism is that it's too easily exploited.

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still true