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RockRaven

(17,484 posts)
1. Because it was never about stopping nuclear proliferation, it was about their
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:40 PM
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insatiable desire to kill and destroy "the other." The nuclear proliferation thing is a convenient, hard-to-argue-with-as-a-goal excuse for indulging their dark appetites.

The bombing may degrade capacity of one party (Iran), MAY, but it certainly heightens the desire and makes imperative pursuit and success for all other parties (every other rogue state). That's a bad trade when added to the fact that a succeeding non-bombing route was abandoned by Warmonger Trump and his dog walker Netanyahu, both for domestic political purposes -- namely these dark appetites amongst their sicko supporters.

Passages

(3,005 posts)
2. Obama's deal with Iran was the highlight of his administration re: foreign policy.
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:51 PM
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Only neocons were against it. In the end, Obama did get the votes he needed.

Initech

(105,380 posts)
5. Hey we've got the most art of the deal dealer who's ever art of the dealed! Art of the deal!
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 05:30 PM
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Fuck Howard Lutnik!

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