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deminks

(11,511 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 03:13 PM Yesterday

I think I understand the disconnect re war with Iran- Project 2025..

I have been listening to some of the GOP twist themselves in pretzels spewing excuses for going to war. 'Iran is weak-the time to strike is now. Iran is strong and an existential threat. They have missiles that can reach the US. They don't have ICBM's. They have continued to work on nuclear weapons. They don't have a nuclear weapons program. We have a diplomat deal. We don't have a diplomatic deal.' Dizzying.

Project 2025 - remember? Project 2025 has the same problem. It urges an abandonment of diplomacy with Iran and urges aggression. It insists that Iran is both weak and an existential threat. It urges regime change in Iran. This is exactly what 🍊 has done. This is why the GOP can't come up with a coherent explanation. This is why 🍊 can't come before the American people and explain the war. Like all GOP plans, there is no middle and no end, no exit strategy. No idea of what we win if we win. Its horse pucky. Little Bush came up with the idea of pre-emptive strike and wrote it into our military strategy. It's dangerous because who decides what we are pre-empting? Especially if you bypass Congress. Iraq and Iran now are wars started on the vengeful whims of one man - Bush avenging Daddy, and 🍊 avenging some delusion in his mind.

So 🍊 is following a flawed plan because that is what he is paid to do. What his idiot billionaires tell him to do. Like US healthcare, infrastucture, economy, etc. they got no idea. Why would they have one for Iran? Or VZ? Or Greenland? Or Canada? Or Mexico?

/rant off. IMHO.

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