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Marion McCoubrey's avatar

I just hope that this will help the reluctant republicans move towards removing Trump, and Vance by association as quickly as possible. Even if that does leave us with a whole new basket of problems with whatever successor.

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

“DON’T RAISE OIL PRICES” is the cry of a man-baby who knows he’s already lost.

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Politics And Aphrodisiacs's avatar

Trump is an incredibly poor strategist. He spent a week broadcasting his plans not quietly to our legislative branch but openly on his idiotic untruth social, Fox News, talks with reporters, and anyone else who would listen. The Iranians didn’t have to be geniuses to decide gee I think we better move those nuclear materials. For all we know they’re in a suitcase in someone’s car trunk right now. They for sure weren’t left for Trump to bomb during his I need attention campaign. He’s gotten plenty of attention because the media has talked about nothing 24/7 since he dropped the bombs. That part worked. Who knows what he does next though. He has no impulse control and he doesn’t seem to grasp that attacking another country on a pretext isn’t an episode of Let’s Make A Deal or Wheel of Fortune. His stupidity is likely to bring long term consequences. The Iranians may have fired some missiles in Qatar for domestic consumption but the Iranians can bide their time. They have cells in America and other places. They have allies in Russia and China and proxies. Weakened or not Iran is a dangerous country. Simpleton Trump just doesn’t get this. God help us until we find a way to get rid of this man and his entire incompetent crew.

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Deb M. (MN)'s avatar

GOP, arrest the pig if anybody died on the bases attacked by Iran. The pig’s hope is that Americans will rally to support him. I say bullshit. Put him in a cell, he is a danger to the United States and the world.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I have felt from the beginning the Trump is punishing the American people for dating to protest his abomination of a birthday military parade. That bombed first. Then he bombed Iran. See the connection?

I am furious that Merz seems to be endorsing this action. I wish that German politicians could give it a rest on pretending to support Jews by endorsing every breath out of Netanyahu's mouth as if he speaks for all Jews in Israel and the rest of the world. Germany could be much more supportive by asking Jews in Israel who would like to leave and inviting them to live in Germany while Netanyahu makes their home a target and gets them into a forever war.

Someone told me the Middle East is a forever war zone. Maybe that is something we should all be trying to understand.

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Christopher Wood's avatar

MAGAts will rally round the Trump flag --- the adjacents who voted for him will be bitching about soon to be higher oil prices.

And the tariffs on other retail items haven't even begun!!

Can only image the total mind-fuque that "Darn'Old Drumpf, King of Dementia-Felonia" will try to pull off all-patriotic-idiocy on July 4th.

And as we sang in the late 1960s --- "And you don't believe we're on the Eve of Destruction."

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Amber Coverdale Sumrall's avatar

No Brains has not considered what the retribution will look like, nor have his deluded psychophants. Or that the Iranians are way smarter than his gang of MAGA reactors. The enriched nuclear materials were spirited away days ago and hidden, making a nuclear bomb likely, and the end of any agreement related to it.

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elliott oberman's avatar

THERE is an industry in Washington that profits from war, and so it’s no surprise that the merits of conflict are dangerously overhyped and the risks are regularly underestimated. . So it is often willfully ignorant of the risks.

ALMOST every war plan our military has devised for the Middle East and North Africa in the last two decades has been a failure. Our major offensive invasions (Iraq and Afghanistan) were disasters. Why would we believe that this plan (and let’s admit we don’t yet know whether the Iran “plan” is limited to the Saturday night strikes or if there’s a plan at all) will be any different?

THE STRIKES are illegal, and a major setback for the international rule of law that has undergirded American security for 75 years. Trump’s mounting disdain for the Constitution is a present and clear danger to American democracy. We aren’t just on the verge of a constitutional crisis – we are in one. It becomes impossible for the United States to lecture other powers – like China or Russia – about their aggression if we don’t even attempt to build international consensus for our actions, remember when we used to at least try to get UN approval for our foreign military campaigns?

YOU Cannot Bomb Knowledge Out Of Existence. Iran knows how to make a nuclear bomb. They do. And bombing their facilities just destroys their equipment; it does not eliminate their knowledge. That risk is why many of us believed that a negotiated agreement that put in place verifiable limits on Iran’s nuclear program was a safer bet than military action.

EVEN opponents of this strike need to admit Iran is weak, and we cannot know for sure what the future holds. Is it out of the question that the tired, elderly Supreme Leader decides that he doesn’t want a drawn out fight with the United States and responds in a way that doesn’t escalate the situation? Sure. But we can’t count on it and have to weigh those risks seriously.

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Mary Barnes's avatar

So this is trumps new game plan: take a break from the incessant bloviating and boondoggling and just bomb the crap out of countries he doesn't like. Makes sense to his cabinet, right?

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Linda Rivera's avatar

Instead of doing something to help people, he does what does best, be a moron! I think he did this before the “2 weeks”, is because he left the G7 meeting and wants everyone to focus on something else. Just once, I would like to see him in genuine pain, fear, and disgust like we are doing because of him. What a giant POS!

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Teri Gelini's avatar

I feel like this is where you put the coin in the slot to see what you can grab in one of those machines that have stuffed animals or toys in them. It's all a crapshoot and you never know what you will win or if you just lost your money. And us Americans are just left on the side of the road

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Mary Barnes's avatar

Well, I guess trump has gone from bloviating and boondoggling to just bombing countries he doesn't like. Can't wait to see what this buffoon pulls next (other than his mushroom dick), which I hope I never see.

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Stephen ONeill's avatar

Every day I wake up hoping that trump has gone to the "big, beautiful hamburger stand in the sky". It can't come too soon.

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I don’t think you can keep up the joke that you aren’t a reporter.

I was researching this personally and I’m impressed. This is reporting at its finest Great article

Didn’t they also move all of their uranium anyway so basically their program is still on track🤷🏼‍♀️

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lola's avatar

They played him 🤣

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Betty's avatar

Adding the cost of this attack to the already huge deficit means the discussion about the debt needs to change. Look up the IRS tax form for 1946 when the country wanted funds to pay for WWII. Something like that is needed now so our patriots can show their allegiance to our country.

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