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On 19 Jun 2025, Fred J McCall <fjmc_call@gmail.com> posted some news:QmY4Q.1233126$mjgd.529159@fx09.iad:

On 6/19/2025 9:50 AM, Dawn Flood wrote:

On 6/19/2025 11:04 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:

President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There
were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be quick and
triumphant.

By Elisabeth Bumiller

Reporting from Washington
June 18, 2025

A little more than 22 years ago, Washington was on edge as a
president stood on the precipice of ordering an invasion of Baghdad.
The expectation was that it would be a quick, triumphant “mission
accomplished.”

By the time the United States withdrew nearly nine years and more
than 4,000 American and 100,000 Iraqi deaths later, the war had
become a historic lesson of miscalculation and unintended
consequences.

The specter of Iraq now hangs over a deeply divided, anxious
Washington. President Trump, who campaigned against America’s
“forever wars,” is pondering a swift deployment of American
military might in Iran. This time there are not some 200,000
American troops massed in the Middle East, or antiwar demonstrations
around the world. But the sense of dread and the unknown feels in
many ways the same.

“So much of this is the same story told again,” said Vali R. >>> Nasr, an Iranian American who is a professor at the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies. “Once upon a time we
didn’t know better, and we bought all the happy talk about Iraq.
But every single assumption proved wrong.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/trump-iran-iraq.html

This is a time when Trump *ought* to chicken out but probably won't,
because he surrounds himself with the worst and the stupidest.

Why would TACO President bomb Iran?!  They are anti-LGBTQ+; they
execute criminals in groups, often daily; they are autocratic and
censor the press; they suppress the rights of women & immigrants;
they liberally use fossil fuels and don't care much for our World's
environment; they disdain education and critical thinking; and they
are pro-military.

All excellent points. However...

What's not to like here??!

The "however" is that American Jews want him to obliterate Iran.

That's because the Jews are queers and Iran hates queers. It's an act
of desperation on the part of the queers. Israel is a dying nation,
pour some gas and let it go.

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