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2020-02-15 Home Front: WoT

Trump is expected to veto the war powers resolution if it reaches his desk, warning that if his hands were tied, Iran would have a field day

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Posted by Fred 2020-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Bandarlogs, stop your chattering and go shit on your own districts.

Enough of this madness. Let the man govern, already.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-15 00:45|| 2020-02-15 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 On one hand, no president has ever recognized the WPR.

On the other hand, we don't want or need a war with Iran. It would be a complete disaster for the American people and is in total opposition to our interests.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-15 08:20|| 2020-02-15 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 herb, no one said we were going to war with Iran. But, if they do something , his hands don't need to be tied by the democrats. What the fuck are they going to do?

Posted by Chris 2020-02-15 10:29|| 2020-02-15 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 First of all, the US has a long history of false flags. Any intelligence community assessment is *extremely* suspect.

Second of all, considering how incredibly bad for the American people a war with Iran would be, even if Iran does something we should resist a war. It will be ruinously expensive, kill thousands of good Americans, ruin the lives of tens or hundreds of thousands more who depend on or love them, and entail another occupation of yet another country for dozens of years or decades. Or permanently. Who wants that?

Literally, who wants it? Nobody in America outside DC elites and their fellow travelers, that's for sure.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-15 10:53|| 2020-02-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 even if Iran does something we should resist a war

Shorter Herb: "roll over, let em have your belly. Enjoy it."

FOAD

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-15 11:10|| 2020-02-15 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Gee, Herb, last time I checked my history books, assaulting an embassy and taking the staff hostage was considered an act of war. I guess that was a American false flag op too? We've been at war since then, we just want to avoid doing the dirty which is why we are stuck with the mess we have today decades later for not recognizing the fact and acting upon it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-15 11:11|| 2020-02-15 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 What P2K said.

In point of fact Trump has been "resisting a war" -- but not resisting confronting and containing Iran. He is both the most effective and the least warlike of our post-Cold War presidents.

This WPR is nothing but virtue-signaling by a Uniparty whose gross foreign-policy incompetence in handling Iran (along with Mexico, China and Russia generally) has brought us to this pass.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-15 11:32|| 2020-02-15 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, I think you all are worrying too much. If the Asshat Allotoyahs were to act out, our alert and hyper-competent representatives in the House and Senate would respond in a forceful and timely manner.
Lithbid, must find the Lithbid

Posted by Mercutio 2020-02-15 12:06|| 2020-02-15 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh. You know Jimmy Carter greenlighted the overthrow of the Shah, right? Because he did.

And the reason that the Shah was in power is because the USA overthrew the democratically elected president of Iran, right? Because they did.

I think maybe another regime change isn't the answer.

I also think you people get way, way, way too heavily into dick-waving and don't think about the consequences of a war. What's better: keeping thousands of good, solid Americans alive so that they can go home and live good lives? Or stroke our egos and let them all die?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-15 19:29|| 2020-02-15 19:29|| Front Page Top

#10 "The Board of Directors has decided that our team will not throw a curve ball until the 4th pitch or later."

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-15 19:50|| 2020-02-15 19:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Wow, Herb? Overtime pay on an American Holiday Weekend?

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-15 20:41|| 2020-02-15 20:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Ialso think you people get way, way, way too heavily into dick-waving

Steady there, big guy... Mayhaps you've stumbled onto the wrong website? Try grindr?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-15 22:26|| 2020-02-15 22:26|| Front Page Top

#13 You know Jimmy Carter greenlighted the overthrow of the Shah, right? Because he did.

Yes, yes, so you tell us obsessively, Mr. McCoy. It is not the killer point you so fondly believe.

You know that France sheltered Ayatollah Khomeini among others, and French leftwing intellectuals hailed the ayatollah’s little adventure? Foucault, Sartre, the French communist and socialist parties... they were all in. Go yell at them for a change. Read this remembrance of the time for a longer list

Or realize that you are complaining about the actions of an American president who came from the anti-war left wing of the Democratic party, whose multiple stupidities led to the election of Ronald Reagan as the antidote, just as Donald Trump was elected as the antidote to Barack Obama's multiple stupidities. And that your audience here voted against both idiots, and will vote en masse against whichever similar idiot the Democratic party throws up this time round.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-15 22:38|| 2020-02-15 22:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Well said, tw. Well done.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-15 23:00|| 2020-02-15 23:00|| Front Page Top

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