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    1. And the only way anyone could possibly know is if they have eyes and ears. Maybe not both, necessarily…

    2. 2_Spicy_2_Impeach on

      I mean, is anyone shocked by this?

      Trump needed a distraction from being Epstein’s BFF.

    3. spikedkushiel on

      Hegseth isn’t a good liar. On account of him being an insecure lil bitch and all. 

    4. > Militarily, “Iran retains about 75% of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its prewar stockpiles of missiles,” the Post added. “There is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles, and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.”

      If you watch the 2005 documentary: *“Why We Fight“* it explains all of the bullshit that’s going on today. It’s all Cheneyism. A scam.

    5. Significant_Cup_238 on

      Analysts were initially torn on whether they were lying through their teeth, or lying out their ass.

    6. Everything this administration does is evil. They’ve turned to bombing innocent little children now and killing people indiscriminately without provocation.

    7. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

      At least prior to the Iraq war, the Bush administration lobbied Congress for months, made arguments *before* the fact, not after, had some support from the American people, which was of course swayed by 9/11, and at a bare minimum tried to align its justifications for war with some intelligence on the matter, for whatever it was worth to begin with.

      Even Obama entered into extensive deliberations and lengthy meetings before sending more troops to Afghanistan.

      But there’s no baseline for Trump’s war other than his „gut feelings.“

      At the behest of Netanyahu, Trump launched us into another needless foreign conflict in the Middle East under false pretenses, with no support from the American people, without consulting with our allies or Congress, and a war that has always been one of choice, not of necessity.

      Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.

      But don’t take it from me, US intelligence assessments came to the same conclusion.

      DNI Tulsi Gabbard even testified before Congress that:

      > “The Intelligence Community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”

      A top US counterterrorism official also resigned over this war, stating that „Iran never posed an imminent threat.“

      Trump and his cabinet have been lying to Americans about the pretext for this war. Their messaging has been so inconsistent that most Americans don’t understand why we’re at war in the first place.

      The fact remains, Iran never posed an imminent nuclear threat to the US

      Trump lied about the outcome of operation „midnight hammer“ and then he lied about the looming and immediate risk of an Iranian nuclear weapon.

      Netanyahu has been pushing the same warnings for decades, always insisting that Iran is weeks away from building and deploying such a weapon.

      But again, Iran never even assumed itself to be a nuclear threat to the US, and its missiles are incapable of reaching us.

      Iran’s missile program was estimated to be years out from having anything resembling the kinds of weapons systems that the Trump administration claims they were preparing to use.

      History rhymes and all that.

      And the irony to all of this is that if Iran ever needed a practical rationale for owning and operating nuclear weapons, Trump and Netanyahu just provided them with one…

      That said, if Trump ever previously cared about a new nuclear deal, he wouldn’t have bombed Iran twice in the middle of negotiations.

      Trump never had a plan for a drawn out conflict and he’s desperate for a deal and for an offramp now that this war is going the way he expected.

      Or that is to say, now that he „doesn’t have the cards“ and Iran has only gained leverage in negotiations due to their control over the Strait of Hormuz.

      By all accounts, Iran was actually committing to its end of the previous nuclear deal before Trump ripped it up.

      And this is according to US intelligence, the International Atomic Energy Agency and even Trump administration officials at the time.

      Obama’s diplomacy intended to avoid a war and box in Iran’s nuclear program.

      Iran only began taking steps in the other direction *after* Trump abandoned the JCPOA out of spite for his predecessor, and their nuclear program is now more advanced than it would have been under Obama’s deal.

      In the past, almost every negotiation with Trump/Netanyahu has resulted in military escalation, so it’s no wonder Iranian negotiators don’t trust Trump’s personal envoy of amateurs and nepokids.

      During his first term, Trump failed to approach a new deal in any earnest or competent manner.

      Then the second time around, Trump again approached negotiations from a bad faith position. Nearly every analyst claims it was doomed from the start.

      But Trump still tried to conceal his failures and shift the responsibility on Obama and Iran, which provided him with a false pretext to go to war.

      And to make matters worse, after the devastating toll that Trump’s war has exacted on the world, on the American economy, on our alliances, on the Iranian people and the people of Lebanon, on the global energy market, etc, Iran has only *gained* leverage in negotiations and Trump will most likely be forced to accept a deal that’s far more conciliatory than the one Obama helped negotiate through diplomacy, not war.

    8. UsedandAbused87 on

      DNI testified to congress that Iran did not have nukes and that they were years aways from obtaining them

    9. user0987234 on

      What does it matter anymore? If you are not willing to help hold your elected representatives & senators accountable, why bother commenting at all?

      Your collective inaction will enable even more lies, grifting, stealing, power-tripping than you think possible.

    10. hatecirclejerks on

      Did we need a cia analaysis for this?

      Or should i go work for the cia?

    11. Background-Gap8151 on

      Murphy is literally just reading the CIA’s own analysis out loud, and the spineless GOP will still pretend this is a deep state conspiracy.

    12. Bright-Pilot-3970 on

      This is probably why he wanted to nuke them. He doesn’t see a way out of this where he wins so he’s going to stick his dick in the mashed potatoes so everyone loses.

    13. Hegseth probably had some fantasy about it being the start of Armageddon and him being the biblical figure bringing it about

    14. Raspberries-Are-Evil on

      Yea, dont need a CIA report to know they lied.

      We know Trump will never face justice but hopefully Hegseth gets whats coming.

    15. No fucking shit.

      And yet the entirely unnecessary & unsanctioned war only has 54% disapproval, & no major protests nor marches.

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