It’s hard to understate how poor Trump’s Iran policy is going

[Cuddles]

WH admits no imminent threat from Soleimani:
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/_c...2/6E1A0F30F9204E380A7AD0C84EC572EC.doc148.pdf

“Iran’s past and present activities, coupled with intelligence at the time of the air strike, indicated that Iran’s Qods Force posed a threat to the United States in Iraq,” the memo explains, “and the air strike against Soleimani was intended to protect United States personnel and deter future Iranian attack plans against United States forces and interests in Iraq and threats emanating from Iraq.”

“Article II of the United States Constitution, empowers the President, as Commander in Chief, to direct the use of military force to protect the Nation from an attack or threat of imminent attack and to protect important national interests. Article II thus authorized the President to use force against forces of Iran, a state responsible for conducting and directing attacks against United States forces in the region,” says the memo that was delivered Friday to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The purposes of this action were to protect United States personnel, to deter Iran from conducting or supporting further attacks against United States forces and interests, to degrade Iran’s and Quds Force-backed militias’s ability to conduct attacks, and to end Iran’s strategic escalation of attacks, and to end Iran’s strategic escalation of attacks on, and threats to American interests.’

That language mirrors the vagueness of the Trump administration in the days and weeks following the Jan. 3 attack. “Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act,” Trump told reporters at the time. At one point, the president claimed four American embassies had been specifically targeted. Secretary of State Pompeo told CNN after the strike that Soleimani “was actively plotting in the region to take actions, a big action as he described it, that would have put dozens if not hundreds of American lives at risk.” When pushed, Pompeo and the rest of the Trump White House began walking back the “imminent threat” claim, saying: “It’s never one thing. … It’s a collective. It’s a full situational awareness of risk and analysis.”

ah yes, the chickens coming home to roost:

 

[Cuddles]

And the Dump that keeps on giving. Good going numbnuts:

 

[Cuddles]

nice going numbnuts:

 

[piezoe]

nice going numbnuts:

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Yup. That Jackass did an incredible amount of damage in just 4 years. Hoping to see him behind bars trying to con his fellow inmates soon. And now its Pompeo who is twice as dangerous, because he is smart, waiting in the wings to come on stage as soon as Trump and DeSantis both self-destruct and annihilate each other.

 

[wildchild]

Yup. That Jackass did an incredible amount of damage in just 4 years. Hoping to see him behind bars trying to con his fellow inmates soon. And now its Pompeo who is twice as dangerous, because he is smart, waiting in the wings to come on stage as soon as Trump and DeSantis both self-destruct and annihilate each other.

Piezoe spewing his nonsense again. Piezoe is just another marxist. Big on talk, small on evidence, empty on logic.

 

[Ricter]

Big on talk, small on evidence, empty on logic.

Please show us evidence that piezoe is a Marxist. Naturally, this evidence must build to a logical conclusion without stumbling on fallacies.

 

[gwb-trading]

Please show us evidence that piezoe is a Marxist. Naturally, this evidence must build to a logical conclusion without stumbling on fallacies.

Easy.. All this forum requires as evidence is applying this stamp apparently.

 

[M.W.]

Yeah history shows that worked out really well in the past. Please answer this: if you left the Iranians alone why would they have any inclination to attack any of your towers or pentagon, octagon, hexagons?

. We have to have influence there.

 

[Cuddles]

Yeah history shows that worked out really well in the past. Please answer this: if you left the Iranians alone why would they have any inclination to attack any of your towers or pentagon, octagon, hexagons?

you're confusing persians w/arabs and that's racist.

 

[M.W.]

Nobody confuses anyone. Repeat: if you left people alone then they won't come to hurt your families. Let them wreak havoc in their own region. Israel is old enough to defend itself.

you're confusing persians w/arabs and that's racist.