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Dunc

(141 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:42 AM 4 hrs ago

Mission Creep.

Old man dyslexic bad punctuation ramble. So we’re switching it up to dropping munitions. And the article i posted tells us why .
Because we are running low on stand off ammunition as i sit and swill large amounts of coffee. I fear for our people those men and women pilots worse case scenario of being killed or becoming a P.O.W. I fear for those in service or those who are in the age range of being able to serve.
Then how deep will we go into this the uncertainty is maddening. I fear one day we will hear we need boots on the ground if that happens it will be us alone. No help from our N.A.T.O. Allies like they have done in the war on terror and definitely no I.D.F. personnel it will just be us shouldering the burden.
And how are we going to pull that off. Will we get in from Kurdistan heavy formations of ground troops loaded with ass and air. And what happens if we do this and find ourselves in conventional land warfare. As in 2003 our military will move with speed and controlled violence to engage.
Yet once the ground campaign is over what will we do we will dig in like we did in 2003 and occupy and then our troops will be dealing with an insurgency Iran is what ten times larger than Iraq.
And this administration has demanded an unconditional surrender from Tehran that is delusional this is not 1945 Pacific after we dropped two atomic bombs.
Tehran still has teeth left to fight and they will fight they’ve been preparing for this for decades.
We’re like a bull in fly time getting bit swatting its tail as we caused this stupid shit.
The 1953 Iranian coup led to the hostage crisis then the bombing of the Marine barracks it is never ending.
No drama no the sky is falling from me just I’m terrified of the possible outcome on this it’s already gone sideways.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-shifting-precision-munitions-2000-pound-bombs-iran-hegseth-says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-war-enters-second-week-trump-demands-unconditional-surrender-2026-03-07/

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Mission Creep. (Original Post) Dunc 4 hrs ago OP
Everything you said, Dunc, is what is worrying many of us. You are niyad 2 hrs ago #1
Arrest the Rapist Whip-poor-will 2 hrs ago #2
Analogous term - "Scope Creep" BumRushDaShow 1 hr ago #3
Yes it has already gone sideways FakeNoose 1 hr ago #4

niyad

(131,627 posts)
1. Everything you said, Dunc, is what is worrying many of us. You are
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:42 AM
2 hrs ago

not alone in this. And there are no good answers.

Whip-poor-will

(99 posts)
2. Arrest the Rapist
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:18 AM
2 hrs ago

Remove the Rapist and restore the sanity we had before john roberts, co-conspirator, gave him total immunity to act like a unitary (KING) executive. We never had a rapist elected needing immunity in the last 250 years , why now ?

Why is AMERICA cowering before a child rapist who is going NERO before our eyes is the question we need to answer.

BumRushDaShow

(168,533 posts)
3. Analogous term - "Scope Creep"
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:22 AM
1 hr ago

The death knell for any project.

Riling up the Kurds in Iran (by engaging with the Kurds in Iraq) will only serve to upend what Turkey finally brought to a conclusion with the PKK in Turkey just a year ago.

FakeNoose

(41,191 posts)
4. Yes it has already gone sideways
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:22 AM
1 hr ago

Chump has carefully pushed all of our former allies away, and they want nothing more to do with us. Can you blame them? I can't. Iran was never the "bad guy" in this made-up fairy tale anyway.

There was a perfectly good agreement that Pres. Obama crafted with Iran in which they pledged to never build nuclear weapons, and Chump came in and tore that up for no good reason. That happened in 2018(?) I think and it has all gone to hell since then.

Chump created this mess and he owns it. Also the idiotic MAGAs who voted him back in - THEY OWN IT TOO along with him.

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