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tanyev

(49,311 posts)
1. Donny will cut and run if it goes on too long and gets too ugly.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:09 PM
Mar 1

Lives and resources thrown away, leaving chaos in his wake.

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
6. Yep. He doesn't have the attention span or resources for a ground war
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:24 PM
Mar 1

Plus, his poll numbers will tank even lower.

As long as it's in the "show and awe", stage he's good.

He wants to be known as, "The guy who killed Ayatollah. Now give me my Nobel Peace Prize".

Norrrm

(5,078 posts)
2. Iraq was going to be done in seven days.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:16 PM
Mar 1

I think it was Wolfowitz who said that.

He also said there would be statue of Dubya in Baghdad.

haele

(15,412 posts)
7. Nope.War pigs and Gangsters want profits.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:26 PM
Mar 1

Too many interests want oil production slowed for profit, other interests want Iran to collapse, still others want to start up a world wide conflict and destabilize the world because they think it will put them on top.

Jack Valentino

(5,053 posts)
10. Well, there ought to be plenty of money for some, since all these 'short wars'
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:02 AM
Mar 2

have been seriously depleting our armed force's stock of munitions.....

Jack Valentino

(5,053 posts)
11. From our side, or theirs ?? From our side I say "T.A.C.O. "!
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:12 AM
Mar 2

("Trump always chickens out&quot

From their side, this seems likely to set off a string of terrorist attacks
which will last for years.... since they have invoked 'jihad' and all that...


Trump NEVER considers long-term consequences to his actions,
and started this war on a 'WHIM' as usual---

And, he doesn't know the difference between the American civil war
and the 'reconstruction' period thereafter--- and thinks that 'airports'
were somehow involved in the war for independence, even though it predated
the invention of the airplane by some 125-ish years.....

Historically speaking, he's a fucking idiot!


If you don't even know basic history, there's no chance to profit by it




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