Discussion: Iran Dismisses Trump Warnings To 'BE CAUTIOUS' As A 'Passive Reaction'

The screaming must mean that Donnie is seeing the precipice looming before him. Heā€™s panicky and isolated and flailing.

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Well, after all the tweet threats aimed at Little Rocket Man, the summit with Kim was so productive and successful that Trump single-handedly eliminated the North Korean nuclear threat completely.

I suppose he could just do the same with Iran.

Or ā€¦ start a completely unnecessary, ill-conceived and illegal war. After all, the tweet threat was in all caps. And we know how serious that makes it.

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I donā€™t think Putin is going to let Spanky attack Iran and the Iranians know it. It is one of Russiaā€™s most important and useful clients and Putin would turn on Spanky before that happened.

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Iranians in the street: ā€œWe will be protected by the pee tape ā€¦ and the money laundering evidence.ā€

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Best, most Ironnic quote from Mike Pompeoā€™s speech, in which he accuses the Iranian leadership of being the exact same thing the Administration refuses to recognize about The Putin Regime in Russia:

Pompeo on Sunday launched a harsh attack on Iranā€™s clerical and military rulers, calling them a kleptocracy akin to the Mafia.
ā€œThe level of corruption and wealth among regime leaders shows that Iran is run by something that resembles the Mafia more than a government,ā€ he said in speech made to a largely Iranian American audience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

And the underlying irony of delivering the remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, when Ronald Reagan clearly made a deal to keep the US hostages in captivity longer than necessary in order to ensure not just his election, but that the Carter Administration would not get any credit for their freeedom, is probably too subtle to ask the Trump-Pompeo -Bolton -Miller-National Security and Diplomacy clean up brigade to grasp.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pompeo-likens-irans-leaders-to-the-mafia/2018/07/22/e4f559a8-3f06-439c-8b83-a23278956ebe_story.html?utm_term=.a953ba16906c

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Just feel like he didnā€™t like how the Carter Page/FISA story was playing and how Russia played last week so he wanted to change things up to make himself look strong. It didnā€™t work. Many were alarmed at the nuttiness of it, but few feared he could or would actually do anything.

Even if he does launch some sort of attack on Iran, it took months of planning to invade Iraq and Iran is 3x Iraqā€™s size with a better military. Trump doesnā€™t have the patience for it.

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Who will fight in a war for the mighty Deferment Don?You cannot get captured because he does not like POW"s.
If you are killed your Gold Star Families cannot question your death.
If you are wounded Trump will pin your Purple Heart on himself.

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Bibi was so impressed by Trumpā€™s performance at the NK summit, he must be expecting a new Iran deal to replace the ā€œworst deal ever.ā€

Funny thing, though. I always knew Bibi was a racist fascist, but I never realized how stupid he isā€¦

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New Yorkers knew it. More and more, the whole world knows it. And eventually America will learn itā€“heā€™s a clown, and you canā€™t take him seriously. Eventually, weā€™ll see that. I hope before itā€™s too late.

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Plenty of irony to go aroundā€¦ like for instanceā€¦

ā€œPompeo was strongly critical of Iran, calling its religious leaders ā€œhypocritical holy menā€ who amassed vast sums of wealth while allowing their people to suffer.ā€

Sounds like an apt description of a modern Republicanā€¦

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I heard a bit more of Pompeoā€™s speech on NPR this morning. I thought he was describing the US government under Fat Donnie.

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Heā€™s smart enough to let Trump look like a bigger menace to world peace than he is.

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If your worried about the war strategy, Trump will add that to the list of jobs Jared getsā€¦

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Yep Putin is pulling the strings on both sides of this to be sure the headlines move from Donny being under Pootieā€™s thumb

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More and more he is like the bully in high school.
All mouth.
Kick him in the knee and pop his nose once and he will crumble and cry for mommy.
itā€™s no wonder someone out there in the whole world hasnā€™t whipped his ass yet.

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I do think that the Iran Tweet shares certain quasi delusional hyperbolic characteristics to the statements he made about North Korea before he learned Putin could help him get a North Korea photo op he could parlay into the semblance of serious foreign affairs accomplishments. FOX would embellish it into a huge event. Same limited vocabulary Donald Trump threatening Iran with unimaginable, inconceivable consequences. Le Dotard.

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or the typical American televangelist, or most religious leaders throughout history.

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Iran is also an ancient country that has a strong identify, not a klotched together mess like Iraq that came out of WWI territorial grabs.

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I donā€™t think a ā€˜dealā€™ with Iran is possible. The one they want is the nuclear deal which he just reneged on. Also, Israel, UAE and Saudi, who have funded Trump and have suborned the skirting/breaking of US laws to do so, strongly oppose any rapprochement with Iran. Thatā€™s why they opposed the nuke deal in the first place. Russia is not likely to give the Trumpers permission to attack Iran, especially when Trump canā€™t deliver on anything. Short of Trump ordering a unilateral first strike out of the blue (canā€™t be ruled out) I donā€™t see a path here.

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