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Israel strikes Iran (Update: US Bombs Iran at #848)

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by g8orbill, Jun 12, 2025.

  1. Shade45

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  2. GatorBen

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    Presumably we don’t actually want to have to shell coastal Iran and sink the entire Iranian navy. But hey, will be a little bit ironic if we finally get to sink the Iranian cruiser that we crippled during Operation Preying Mantis in the 1980s but then let them tow it away to avoid escalating (it was eventually repaired and returned to service, where it is still in active duty).
     
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  3. snatchmagnet

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    You’re trying too hard. No matter how much you want to spin this it only makes you look like AOC and Jeffries and the spy humping guy. Trump can do something right and you can still hate him.
     
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  4. uftaipan

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    Sorry if already defined:

    BDA - battle damage assessment
    DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency
    CENTCOM - U.S. Central Command, the military four-star geographic combatant command with responsibility for the Middle East
     
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  5. CaptUSMCNole

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  6. DawgFanFromAlabam

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    I can’t stand Trump, Hegseth, Vance but I fully support this action.
     
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    Funny since it was the proven Hegseth massive leakage from his lack of security on his phone that got the NSA Dir. Waltz fired. Please give us any link you have that shows those Democrats have leaked security previously. Could be poster simply makes this crap up.
     
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  8. CaptUSMCNole

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  9. vegasfox

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    What are you talking about? My point is that the war against Iran is incentivizing Iran to buy a nuke or nukes from North Korea. NK wants cash. Iran has cash and wants nukes. Yossef Bodanky, who once headed up the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, has written Intel reports about the secret history of the Iran-North Korea nuclear weapon program. Bodansky wrote the definitive biography on Osama bin Laden. He predicted the OKC bombing (close enough for me). Predicted jets would hit the WTC .

    As many know, rational thought goes out the window when talking about Israel.

    All of the super smart people I follow are saying the same things I'm saying. Many Too Hot posters right and left have lost it
     
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  10. CaptUSMCNole

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    If NK was willing to sell Iran a nuke, why haven't they done it by now?
     
  11. CaptUSMCNole

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    Obama did not inform McConnell or Boehner before the UBL raid into Pakistan.
     
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  13. vegasfox

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    They may have, as I've said for many years. Seems irresponsible to assume it never happened. Just one more reason why we should have good relations with Iran. Iran was once our strongest ally in the Middle East.
     
  14. CaptUSMCNole

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    So we have to operate on the assumption a country that said they would wipe Israel off the map, has had a nuclear weapon for 10+ years and never used it?

    Yes, they were under a different regime. The new one held Americans hostage for over a year and has been killing Americans for the past 45+ years.
     
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  15. vegasfox

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    Just because you have nuclear weapons doesn't mean you',ll use them against another country like Israel that might have 200-300 nukes. That would be suicidal.
     
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  17. vegasfox

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    Trump's foreign policy advisors are terrible.
     
  18. CaptUSMCNole

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    Or maybe they do not have one because NK giving them one would cross a red line with the CCP and they would replace the Kim family with one that follows the rules.
     
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    Islam supports the doctrine of Taqiyya, which permits lying to gain an advantage over enemies. I don't think it is a coincidence Iran's Ayatollah is the picture on the webpage that describes what Taqiyya is:

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    Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other... unless the purpose of lying is to "smooth over differences" or "gain the upper-hand over an enemy."

    There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya (the Shia name). These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.
    Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam

    I would not trust Iran to tell the truth about anything, since their religion teaches lying as a form of religious warfare against enemies. It could be argued we are in this mess to begin with because Iran has been engaging in Taqiyya since the beginning with their nuclear program and we naively believed the negotiations to be in good faith.
     
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  20. Gator515151

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    I wonder how many Iranian terrorists Sleepy Joe let in with his open borders?
     
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