Trump has always shown us he doesn't need intelligence.
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The best hint that Iran has no nukes is that the US is attacking them. If they had nukes they would keep away.
Not only is trump ignoring this, but lots and lots of shitlibs on this site are also.
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What is that?
That's Secretary of State Colin Powell testifying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.
That's Secretary of State Colin Powell ~~testifying~~ lying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.
I had to.
The Bush administration getting away with all their criminal shit paved the way for Trump.
Tbf I doubt it was new in politics
In fairness to Colin Powell, my understanding was he didn't know it was a lie/ trumped up evidence at the time, and was pretty bitter about it in later years.
It's not Congress. It's the UN. And he was doing a really stupid publicity stunt about how that vial could hold anthrax to kill them all. And then went on about WMDs in Iraq.
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He's an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality
He's spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it
He's a child, and what's worse, he has dementia.
He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness
Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.
"But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We'll take the dementia-addled toddler instead"
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The truth doesn't really matter. Israel will get their war, and the US will lumber into it behind them.
What's crazy to me is apparently the US has become so polarized, so used to division that pointing out Israel is acting like bloodthirsty psychos is somehow supporting Iran, or Hamas before that. It's like their whole culture has evaporated any nuance at all. Only diametrically opposed good and evil battling forever. Professional wrestling stories with Heels and Faces divided by clear black lines.
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The more he dismiss America's intelligence agencies, the more i believe them.
Yep exactly. If he says something I assume the opposite is true. I'm not saying this for comedy value, I genuinely do
First, weaken the commercial aviation in your country. Second, start calling everything terrorism. Third, start yet another war in the middle east.
Your guy is desperately looking for another 911.
Tronald would likely abuse the fuck Out of it to do more "emergency measures". We've seen this in Germany in the 30s with the Ermächtigungsgesetz after the Reichstag burned.
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why tf would a fascist dictator give a rat's ass about "reasons" to plunge multiple countries into war? he wants war, that's what's going to happen
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yeeeah... shrug, Trump ignores them all. And why shouldn't he? They didn't prevent him from happening, what's the point of the CIA, NSA etc when they either knew about him & putin, and let hit happen, or, they didn't know, even though it's been obvious since the 80s?
Nice job Intel community, you shot us all in the face.
So we oppose US intelligence agencies overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries but not their own?
if your own intelligence organs don't warn your gov that there's a foreign power influencing the election, yeah, I think that group isn't doing their fucking job.
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We have done this dance before last time it cost me my 20s my sanity and most importantly a huge amount for friends I loved like brothers who died before and are still killing then selfs..
That's fine. Iraq didn't have WMDs either. They just need a lie to sell it to the public.
So we are gonna do the Iraq WMD lie again huh?
This season's twist is that the Intelligence community is claiming that there is no weapons. Unless the Intelligence community is doing reverse psychological on us.
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People still believe Iraq had WMDs to this day.
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In [Trump's] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
Those are clearly Netanyahu's words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.
At the same time Isreal is like the only country that probably has nukes yet refuses to acknowledge it.
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The moron just wants the war to hide his shenaningans at home. Sole reason. Everyone should know by now that he automatically denies any and every thing that runs contrary to his own personal narrative.
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Wmd
Are we now choosing to believe what Tulsi says because it fits the narrative?
The alternative is believing Israel's government...
And they're an openly genocidal far right government made up of violent religious extremists...
Like, America is bad right now
But Israel has been on some straight up Nazi shit for a while now, because both Biden and Trump let Israel do whatever
Saying Iran isn't building nukes is the most pushback Israel has gotten since Obama was in office
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