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Why does Trump want to attack Iran?
As I hinted at in a different thread, he has not been able to consistently articulate a specific reason.
At first it was because they were killing protestors (sort of like ICE....). He threatened the Iran regime with punishment if they continued to kill protestors. Well, they continued to kill protestors, nothing happened, so the protests quickly died out.
Then it was because he wanted to destroy their missile program. I think someone realized that was impossible to do through a simple bombing campaign since the missiles are scattered throughout the whole country. Remember back in the 90's when the U.S. was hunting SCUDS in Iraq? That took weeks (if not months) and required a constant presence over Iraq. Iran's missile programs are far more advanced and extensive than the SCUDs in Iraq. Furthermore, SCUDS required a semi-truck trailer to haul them around and fire. Iran has missiles that are much easier to hide and fire. Also, Trump would never be able to easily declare victory. If he did declare victory, all it would take is for Iran to find a dozen missiles hidden in a warehouse somewhere and for them to fire them at Israel and everyone would know Trump's "victory" was a joke.
Then there was some talk about Iran's nuclear program. But that quickly died because Trump already declared victory over Iran's nuclear program. Remember, he "totally obliterated it".
Now Trump's rational is that they will be bombed unless they "negotiate" seriously. What are they negotiating though? Trump never really says.
My guess is that it has been no secret that Netanyahu has always wanted regime change in Iran. In fact that is one of the reasons Netanyahu was against the treaty that eliminated the Iranian nuclear program and put Iran under a huge inspection regime. He was afraid it was going to help legitimize the Iranian regime in the eyes of the world and make regime change much more difficult.
So I think the reason Trump is threatening to bomb Iran is that he is doing Netanyahu's bidding and is working for regime change in Iran.
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Iran has been a boogyman for the US ever since the Iranian people had the nerve to overthrow a USian client.
Iran also controls a lot of oil. Oil always attracts the attention of the US.
Remember how, 20 years ago, the US was blaming our losses to IEDs in Iraq on Iran providing those devices?
So, yes, "regime change" has been a US objective for 45 years: put in another corrupt, brutal, dictator, that does the US' bidding. I posted articles, a few days ago, quoting Fetterman, Pelosi, and Graham, all pushing "regime change", rather than just ending the nuke program.
Then, of course, is the fact that, wrt Iran, US and Israeli policies of long standing intersect.
Steve
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Remember how, 20 years ago, the US was blaming our losses to IEDs in Iraq on Iran providing those devices?
You're aware they...actually did that, right?
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You're aware they...actually did that, right?
Yes. iirc, the media described the devices as forming a slug of molten metal which fired upward to penetrate the bottom of US military vehicles. If the Iraqi resistance had not bought devices from Iran, they would have used something else. If 43 had not lied us into that war, our guys would not have been there, to be killed or maimed, in the first place.
Steve
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Yes.
Who do you think taught AQI and the Taliban how to make IEDs?
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So I think the reason Trump is threatening to bomb Iran is that he is doing Netanyahu's bidding and is working for regime change in Iran.
And he also is wagging the dog frantically in every way he can, while proclaiming the Epstein files 'totally exonerated' him, which they most certainly did not.
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Who do you think taught AQI and the Taliban how to make IEDs? The CIA, in the 80s, when the predecessor to AQ and the Taliban, the Mujahideen "freedom fighters" were terrorizing the occupying Russians.
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the Soviet Union in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CycloneWould you like to borrow my DVD of "Charlie Wilson's War"?
Steve
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The CIA, in the 80s, when the predecessor to AQ and the Taliban, the Mujahideen "freedom fighters" were terrorizing the occupying Russians.
They didn't teach them how to disable M1 Abrams tanks. That was the Iranians.
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They didn't teach them how to disable M1 Abrams tanks.
They taught them how to disable T-62s. Basically the same: big metal box full of things that go boom.
I remember video on the "news" of Mujahideen with a captured, iirc, T-55. They fried the clutch.
Steve
