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[not guilty]

And so it begins. https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-explosion-tehran-c2f11247d8a66e36929266f2c557a54c

Of all the decisions that an American president can make, is there any that carries a greater potential for catastrophe than waging a war of aggression in Asia?

I can't think of any.

[Kazinski]

At least one Iranian appears to be giddy with delight at the sight of "the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran" being destroyed.

I can't vouch for the authenticity, but I don't have any reason to doubt it either.

https://x.com/i/status/2027643840551870926

[Dr. Ed 2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsLh2LPRPAA

BOMB IRAN, JUST LIKE JAPAN….

GOING TO A MOSQUE, GONNA THROW SOME ROCKS
BOMB IRAN, BOMB, BOMB IRAN!

[bloocow2]

It's all part of the Nobel Peace Prize application. He still wants that, right?

[not guilty]

I recall a Vietnam era slogan attributed (probably wrongly) to George Carlin: Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

[Kazinski]

Funny that, I'm going to Vietnam next week, about my 10th visit, I've always felt very welcomed. They didn't seem to take it personally, if course it doesn't hurt that almost everyone you meet there, at least in the South has friends or relatives that live in the US.

[Commenter_XY]

May God protect our troops, and those of Israel, as they fight an evil, despotic regime sworn to our destruction.

Iran will be utterly defeated.

[hobie]

Dear AI, what pretext did Hitler give for invading Poland?

"Hitler justified the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, by fabricating claims of Polish aggression, specifically alleging that Polish forces had attacked a German radio station in Gleiwitz and were persecuting ethnic Germans."

Lordy! Don't that sound familiar.

[hobie]

Reporter: Why we bomb Nigeria?
Trump: Persecuting Christians.
Reporter: Why we let in white South Africans to take jobs from Bubba?
Trump: White Christian persecution.
Reporter: Why we invade Venezuela.
Trump: They attacking Americans with recreational watercraft.

[bloocow2]

May God protect your drone pilots and missile technicians, you mean. Your troops aren't getting involved, and yet you're not going to change any regime without them.

Here is what your peace-loving administration is going to do. They are going to bomb the Iranians for a couple of weeks, arbitrarily declare victory while signing a deal that's pretty much the same as the old one, and the Iranian regime will stay in place. At least until we get bored and bomb them again in 6 months time.

[David Nieporent]

Boy, there's got to be egg on FIFA's face after that Peace Prize.

[Kazinski]

Well, I think we now have evidence that Epstein/Affordability Crises/ICE is starting to severely impact Trump in the polls.

The only question I have is how does attacking Iran benefit Putin?

[hobie]

We serve two masters with one being slightly more important that we all fellate regularly: the state of Israel.

[Kazinski]

But certainly Putin will release the compromat he's been keeping in reserve, or call in some loans.

He has to have something he can use, right?

I'm starting to feel like I've been gaslighted.

[hobie]

You still humping that Steele Dossier? I think the attraction has nothing to do with kompromat.

[BrotherMovesOn]

This war is even better TV than the Olympics!

[Dr. Ed 2]

Am I the only one who makes a distinction between Congress subpoenaing a farmer President Congress subpoenaing THE SITTING PRESIDENT?!?.

[Dr. Ed 2]

And Clinton said that Trump wasn’t in bed with Epstein, how much more can you folks ask for?

[David Nieporent]

He did not say that. You're either knowingly lying or too dumb to know that repeating things James Comer says is like buying a product because you saw an infomercial saying how great it was.

[BrotherMovesOn]

"how much more can you folks ask for?"
Your "dissertation", linked, you absolutely Oscar worthy sociopath?

[Dr. Ed 2]

Please explain how my dissertation, which involved K-12 curriculum, had anything to do with pederesty let alone the question of if Donald J Trump had ever been involved in it.

Yes, I’m taking this schmuck seriously because it demonstrates just how asinine he is.

[David Nieporent]

pederesty

I suppose Apple keeps "autocorrecting" that from an actual word — that's accurate — to the thing you keep posting, which is neither.

[hobie]

Clearly Ed was an abused and homeschooled child.

[Dr. Ed 2]

And then we have Wakefield Man…

https://secretireland.ie/seamus-culleton-ice-detention-ex-wife-restraining-order-drug-charges-and-deportation-drama-unfolded/

Don’t we have an extradition treaty with Ireland?

[hobie]

1938 Checklist:

White Christian Nationalism? Check.
Demonize and round up minorities? Check.
Invade other countries willy nilly? Check.

Mel Brooks:
"I don’t want war! All I want is peace…peace…peace…!
A little piece of Greenland,
A little piece of France…
A little piece of Venezuela
And Iran or Cuba perchance."

[Dr. Ed 2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YbpZvqwYvw

[Dr. Ed 2]

Word to the wise, Trump plays three-dimensional chess.
If you want to protest this an academia, kiss academia goodbye.

Hey Team Hamas, this song’s for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YbpZvqwYvw

We had already been at war with Iran for three years when that song came out — and they attacked us….