Pic Of The Moment: John Bolton Orders Plan To Send 120,000 U.S. Troops Back To The Middle East

[EarlG]

White House reviews plan to deploy 120,000 troops to Middle East

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[brush]

1. To where, what country is going to go along with this warmongering?

[underpants]

2. That was my question in the link.

???

[Initech]

8. Probably the same ones that elected Putin's minions like Erdogan and Bolsonaro.

[comradebillyboy]

11. Erdogan refused to let Turkey get involved in Bush's Iraq war

At the moment Turkey has good relations with Iran. Turkey also has a big problem with Kurdish terrorists and Syrian refugees so it doesn't need more trouble with it's neighbors.

Erdogan isn't beholden to Putin in any respect.

[Initech]

12. Huh, I thought he was.

Bolsonaro would definitely do whatever Trump does, that I am pretty sure of.

[comradebillyboy]

13. I don't know about Bolisarno but I've followed Erdogan's career

pretty closely over the years. He's an authoritarian bastard but he's very independent.

[JonLP24]

28. Kurdish terrorists? I never heard that one before

We are watering down the terrorist word to essentially meaningless.

[IronLionZion]

19. The ocean, it's not for a ground war

Trump is a bomber type and his people probably told him it would help his reelection chances. And he has support from Saudi Arabia and Israel on this.

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20. 120,000 troops on bombers? Better re-read the OP.

[IronLionZion]

22. That's the upper limit of their options

As a precaution, the Pentagon has moved an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers, a Patriot missile interceptor battery and more naval firepower to the gulf region.

At last week’s meeting, Mr. Shanahan gave an overview of the Pentagon’s planning, then turned to General Dunford to detail various force options, officials said. The uppermost option called for deploying 120,000 troops, which would take weeks or months to complete.

The previous version of the Pentagon’s war plan included a classified subset code-named Nitro Zeus, a cyberoperation that called for unplugging Iran’s major cities, its power grid and its military.

The idea was to use cyberweapons to paralyze Iran in the opening hours of any conflict, in hopes that it would obviate the need to drop any bombs or conduct a traditional attack. That plan required extensive presence inside Iran’s networks — called “implants” or “beacons” — that would pave the way for injecting destabilizing malware into Iranian systems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/middleeast/us-military-plans-iran.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&linked=facebook

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23. My question still remains. What country is going ot accept 120k troops...

sent by these warmongers?

[IronLionZion]

24. Hoping they all tell Trump to go screw himself

but most likely the most will go to Iraq and Afghanistan, with the rest split around Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the ocean, similar to the previous Iraq wars. Last time they even had troops in the Kurdish area drawing attention away from the main invasion.

I doubt they would actually go through with it, since it was the worst case scenario.

[oldlibdem]

25. The Islamic Republic of Iran, wether they want to or not.

Temporary holding areas? Iraq. Afghanistan. Seventh U.S. fleet et al.

[brush]

26. That'll be a colossal fairlure just like the Iraq was was.

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[underpants]

3. Let's see his TV news personality Economic advisor isn't clear how tariffs work

and his TV news contributor National Security advisor is a moron. He sort of nominated a embarrassingly stupid TV news commentator to the Fed - that fizzled not because of his idiocy but because of his writings. Aaand what happened to that TV news personality going to be the UN Ambassador?

[Martin Eden]

4. Trump insisted he was against invading Iraq in 2003

Then he picks Bolton to be his NSA?

I think Trump might not have told the truth.

[DENVERPOPS]

5. Two things all these chicken hawks have in common

#1) They never served in the Military. Daddy got them out of it somehow.

#2) They all have massive underlying inferiority complexes and tiny dicks........

[Martin Eden]

14. Maybe it's time we put a woman in charge

#1 & #2 do not apply.

[IronLionZion]

21. Khaleesi and her dragons go high all the time

[Gothmog]

6. K&R

[cp]

7. Just so that MoFo is first in line at any battle, leading the charge

And don't send any of our military along.

[OnlinePoker]

9. This is why Trump was so pissed at Bolton pushing war in Venezuela

He knew his base wouldn't stomach two major wars at the same time, especially after his campaign promise to get American troops out of the middle east.

[Crowman2009]

18. Plus I think Pooty-poot objected to this idea.

Wonder if he'll say the same for Iran since that country is a major purchaser of Russian weaponry.

[Five Ten Nineteen]

10. "Professor Warren! The Jackal is...Professor Warren!"

You have to be a Class A+1 Nerd to get that!

[homegirl]

15. Are Trump and Bolton planning

to bring back compulsory military service?

[jalan48]

16. Wars provide a great opportunity for the uberwealthy to invest and a great return on that investment

[duforsure]

17. trump's man to create another war

for profit and he will go after their oil. About as corrupt as you can get. Hope people remember this when the next election gets here, and votes all these crooks , trump and all the gop , out of office. Watch how quickly oil prices skyrocket upward. With the tariffs and another war we'll be in another bad recession so , no matter what trump tries to claim, and again like W Bush did claiming everything was ok, it will be really , really bad this time, especially because of trump. While the gop look on and do nothing.

[dalton99a]

27. Fucking psychopath