Trump stirs Mideast tensions despite talk of 'endless wars'

The Friday strike that killed the most prominent Iranian general may have ended any chance that he would get the United States out of the “endless wars” in the Middle East that he has railed against since taking office.

BINGO! Another scam exposed! All the talk about RINOs, NEOCONs, Bringing the troops home, etc., was all just a another Trump con-job...

Donnie's sent over 14K troops INTO the Middle East since 2018 - and he has 3K readying for deployment now....maybe some Trumper can explain how that is bringing them home...

Donnie conned all his supporters who were all cheering him just two months ago when he cut and run in Syria and just moved the troops to Iraq.

How do they withstand all this humiliation? Donnie lying to them and then doing just the opposite of what he campaigned on and promised them.

The Repubs are all cheering! Another Middle East war - we're up to three now...

And who said; "No more American blood in the sand"?

Trump’s aggressive approach with Iran is remarkable considering his oft-repeated desire to avoid expensive military entanglements.

Though Trump's lied and flip-flopped so many times no one can say for certain why he did this, his claims in the video below about why he thought Obama would bomb Iran (which Obama never did) gives some indication of what Trump might have been thinking.

WATCH TRUMP CLAIM OBAMA WOULD START A WAR WITH IRAN “TO GET REELECTED” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/donald-trump-iran-warn-obama

But then the video could be a malicious deep fake. /

Donnie conned all his supporters who were all cheering him just two months ago when he cut and run in Syria and just moved the troops to Iraq. 

Now with a serious reason to.

How do they withstand all this humiliation? Donnie lying to them and then doing just the opposite of what he campaigned on and promised them.

What humiliation?

The Repubs are all cheering! Another Middle East war - we're up to three now...

And who said; "No more American blood in the sand"?

No, just the Rinos

Good lord, another Republican march towards getting bogged down in the desert again. Can you imagine how incompetent Trump would be as CinC? He'd make Bush & Cheney look like Alexander the Great. And can you imagine how much money him and his family would skim from the war? Doesn't America ever learn?

"Wag the Dog"

And can you imagine how much money him and his family would skim from the war?

Oh, that myth again?

Doesn't America ever learn?

I said the same thing 12 years ago....

Trump has a quote for everything because he is projecting about himself. Nixon could have ended the Vietnam war in his first term, but he extended it until he was re-elected. Trump is doing what he said Obama was going to do but never did.

Trump’s Old Tweets About Obama Striking Iran For Reelection Come Back To Haunt Him

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-old-tweets-barack-obama-iran-091733115.html

Between 2011 and 2013 Trump tweeted:

1) In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

> 2) Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

> 3) Polls are starting to look really bad for Obama. Looks like he'll have to start a war or major conflict to win. Don't put it past him!

> 4) Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!

> 5) I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!

Of course, Trump launched the attack looking to help his poll numbers. That’s what Hannity told him to do. He had to destract from focus on impeachment. Next, he may try to defer the 2020 election.

"Trump" has become the official translation of the Hebrew word for "cat's paw". In the lawless international arena Iran now has every right to put a bounty on Trump's head. In any event, some people will pay for this assassination with their lives.

Good lord, another Republican march towards getting bogged down in the desert again. Can you imagine how incompetent Trump would be as CinC? He'd make Bush & Cheney look like Alexander the Great. And can you imagine how much money him and his family would skim from the war? Doesn't America ever learn?

Support our troops! Send in the Trump supporters! At some point, Trump will deny ever knowing the Trump who did this.

Hmm. Apparently Israel was informed of the strike beforehand but the American Congress was not. Priorities, I suppose.

“This is clearly not an escalation, this is clearly an act of self-defense,”

Why can't it be both?

It has obviously got AK very grumpy.

IMHO, Trump's gotta do what he's hotta do to protect, but this has got every chance of going deeper to the bottom.

Hmm. Apparently Israel was informed of the strike beforehand but the American Congress was not. Priorities, I suppose.

Now why would Trump talk to the very people that oppose and undermine him, impeached him and constantly leaked on him? I personally would throw Nancy and friends the middle one as well. By the way, they Dems didn’t inform the GOP of taking out OBL, so don’t complain, please. Lol

dems also didn’t inform Congress they were trading 5 terrorist leaders to get back the deserter Bergdahl.

Dem Murphy complained Trump took no retaliatory action in response to the attack and was weak. trump took action then he complained about why he did that too. Total flip flop within 48 hrs.

same as libs here: but but he said troops are coming home. But when troops started coming home they complained about why the US was running away and abandoning people to die.

Can’t win with libs, just ignore it and do or say whatever you think Is best as you can’t please them.

Impeach him if he acts. Putin told him to do it!

Impeach him if you find out later he had a perfect chance to kill a terrorist and didn’t. He could have acted but Putin told him not to!

everyone knows what liberals and their media are up to by now.

Yep sure surprised Soleimani didn’t it? Iranians are used to finding pallets of cash waiting for them at airport tarmacs. Surprise.

If Mueller and his boys and 35 million dollars and 2.5 years didn’t find it, it’s not there. There is a reason why none of that is worthy to be in even a sham impeachment.

plus in the real world too many things USA done that are not in Russia’s best interest by now. But don’t stop believin’- hold on to that feeeeeling.

What to do and whom to demonize next when all else fails.

Iranians? Immigrants? The media? Veterans? All else has failed for Donchan, he's flatlined for 3 years, so best get the bombs out eh

Well over 14 pages of 300+ achievements. Approval ratings up Significantly since impeachment* But yeah sure, ok.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/exclusive-trump-list-shows-319-results-and-promises-kept-in-three-years

Well over 14 pages of 300+ achievements.

The author: The White House. Trump wrote his own school report (or dictated it, we all know he can't write)

Another generation of terrorist/freedom fighters in the making. Well done, Trump.

The bring-it-on crowd must be delighted. Which is fine for them, sitting cosy, thousands of miles away from the heat of conflict.

Those who say that America has to retaliate against a dubious threat, do they ever consider that one day the manic actions of their governments will result in counter retaliations?

So many nations attacked by the US governments, and for what, exactly?

What to do and whom to demonize next when all else fails.

The irony, the irony.

Iranians? Immigrants? The media? Veterans? All else has failed for Donchan, he's flatlined for 3 years, so best get the bombs out eh

Hmmmm...not according to his war chest, donors list, popularity raising, strong economy, if he’s flatlined, it’s the best the country has ever seen. The Dems can pack it up,

Well over 14 pages of 300+ achievements

Yup! And counting....

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trumps-list-289-accomplishments-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping

The Friday strike that killed the most prominent Iranian general may have ended any chance that he would get the United States out of the “endless wars” in the Middle East that he has railed against since taking office.

Come again.... our fake media are now against drone strikes? Where have they been for the 8 years of droning by the previous administration. Talk about whiplash from 180 degree turns.

As for the endless wars.... Donnie has not started any new ones and is stuck with the ones his predecessors settled him with.

As for the endless wars.... Donnie has not started any new ones and is stuck with the ones his predecessors settled him with.

You never tire of attacking the fake news and making excuses for Trump.

He said he’d get out of these endless wars. Why aren’t you attacking this?

Where have they been for the 8 years of droning by the previous administration. Talk about whiplash from 180 degree turns.

You should have paid more attention back then. There was plenty of outrage over the drone attacks.

But, that's the Trumpists for you.

Short attention span.

From 2013:

“The U.S. public has consistently supported the use of drone strikes — and that support has been bipartisan. In a February survey, 56% of Americans approved of them while 26% disapproved. That included 68% of Republicans, 58% of Democrats and 50% of independents.”

so basically Dems only approved of them when Obama was doing them. Repubs, we didn’t play partisan politics on the subject like Dems are now.

Will the support base for Trump be signing up for combat?

Just curious.

Given that y'all claimed he was bringing troops home and not engaging in the Middle East, anymore...

Must be conflicted, you enablers.

If an Iranian drone killed a US general, the squeals would be deafening. How can the rest of the planet just sit by and do nothing? The US is the single source of unrest in the Middle East and they have done it again. It's not the libs, the dems or anything else. It's the whole country! This is psychosis. Instead of dithering about, get the monkey man with bad hair out of the White House and put someone there who can start to clean up the mess Bush, Cheney and now Trump have made.

You guys used to love drone strikes, even ion US citizens. What happened?

Liberals, Dems approve of drone strikes on American citizens abroad

By Greg Sargent (Washington post)

February 8, 2012

The Post has just released some new polling that demonstrates very strong support for Obama’s counterterrorism policies, including 83 percent of Americans approving of his use of drone strikes against terror suspects overseas.

This finding, however, is particularly startling:

What if those suspected terrorists are American citizens living in other countries? In that case do you approve or disapprove of the use of drones?

Approve: 65

Disapprove: 26

The number of those who approve of the drone strikes drops nearly 20 percent when respondents are told that the targets are American citizens. But that 65 percent is still a very big number, given that these policies really should be controversial.

And get this: Depressingly, Democrats approve of the drone strikes on American citizens by 58-33, and even liberals approve of them, 55-35. Those numbers were provided to me by the Post polling team.

Come again.... our fake media are now against drone strikes? Where have they been for the 8 years of droning by the previous administration. Talk about whiplash from 180 degree turns.

They're just reporting them - and pointing out Trump's hypocrisy - and how he conned his supporters...again...

As for the endless wars.... Donnie has not started any new ones and is stuck with the ones his predecessors settled him with.

Yea, the ones started by two other Repub Presidents - and that he said he would "end" - but that was just another scam and lie - he's deployed more troops to the Middle East since 2017 and is now starting Repub ME War 3.0... Feel the humiliation Trumpers.

So which achievements among the 300+ do you classify as untrue?

Putin says they're all true - and he has the punch card to prove it...

Donnie conned all his supporters who were all cheering him just two months ago when he cut and run in Syria and just moved the troops to Iraq. 

Now with a serious reason to.

Now that his true NEOCON beliefs emerge...

How do they withstand all this humiliation? Donnie lying to them and then doing just the opposite of what he campaigned on and promised them.

What humiliation?

The one right in front of your eyes - you can see it if you take off your MAGA googles...

The Repubs are all cheering! Another Middle East war - we're up to three now...

And who said; "No more American blood in the sand"?

No, just the Rinos

Glad you finally see Trump is a RINO and a NEOCON....just like Cheney, Bolton, Graham, and Pompeo...

Humiliating having voted for a NEOCON, isn't it...

Oh so all that 300+ good stuff “just happened” huh?

You're missing the point. Trump published a list of his own achievements. Doesn't that seem odd and embarrassingly desparate to you? If @bass published a list of his own achievements, would you believe it?

We aren’t rewriting anything. Your blinding love and loyalty for Obama and unwillingness to recall anything negative during his 8 years reign is mind boggling.

Only started posting here less than 3 years ago.

And I'm not a liberal or a democrat.

Still can't bring yourself to address the real villain, can you?

Since Donny wrote them himself, I'd classify all of them as untrue. 

So now he has power to change written laws? Man, I knew Trump was good, but this takes it to a whole new level....

302 - Re-classified 'stuff that has happened' as 'achievements' for the suckers

Get used to it, we suckers will have him for 4 more years.

You're missing the point. Trump published a list of his own achievements.

I keep forgetting, liberals all have the mutant ability to cast out their astral forms to peer into the Presidents life.

Doesn't that seem odd and embarrassingly desparate to you? If @bass published a list of his own achievements, would you believe it?

Liberals can believe whatever they want, they can even believe Sanders will be the next President, just because it won’t happen, doesn’t mean they can’t believe in it.

We know for a fact that Trump believes wars help incumbents win re-election

Donald J. Trump

@BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election. If the…

> “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figures that he's going to get reelected — and as sure as you're sitting there — is to start a war with Iran.”

I am sorry that pre year 2016 internet history inconveniences the liberal desire to avoid reality of the past. You really should engage Google to erase all that.

At a time that Obama had 46% total disapproval among Dems and Repubs, still 68% of Republicans supported his drone actions. That’s country before party.

how many Dems support Trumps actions killing this terrorist?you have Hollywood people apologizing to Iran now.

rest my case. Liberals can enjoy mourning your poetry reading revered terrorist. I am glad he is gone.

Unlikely.

liberals really have no choice.

But you have condemned the world to future generations of terrorism.

Oh, here we go with that nonsense again. Well, I personally hope Trump gets more of these radicals, every bit helps.

Hope you are happy in your ivory towers, bunkers and fortresses whilst the ordinary people suffer.

Shame on the Trump cult.

Lol

Obama and his drone strikes already created the next generation of terrorists.

there is no war, you guys were saying same thing about North Korea and that idn’t happen either.

Iran can simply stop what they have been doing and there will be nothing further. If they choose to escalate, those consequences are on them.

Barking up the wrong tree here if you are talking to me about military service for my country.

so now you are saying for killing a terrorist, Trumps actions are.....terrorism?

Anyway, truly desperate stuff from those trying to justify this act of terrorism.

Yes I do expect that. How do you justify them a right to retaliate? Based on what? They were personally warned by Trump at least twice and several times no action was taken against them. They have no further right to continue this.

Do you expect Iran to not retaliate?

As bad as the ____are and for all their rhetoric, they aren’t that stupid.

Insert Vietnamese, Iraqis or Afghans here, they weren't that stupid either.

Do you expect Iran to not retaliate?

Does Iran ever stick its head up and say 'hey you'? No, they almost always use proxies...let's see if this get them to come out of the woods. I'd say not because AK would not risk being seen by Iranian as war mongering, and particularly that people are already unhappy about fuel prices etc.

so now you are saying for killing a terrorist, Trumps actions are.....terrorism?

The General was a soldier. A hero, to his people. Or some of his people.

Not to me, and I don't mourn his assassination, but there's no doubt that Trump and his minions are the latest in a long, long line of US governments creating mayhem and murder throughout the world.

Millions have died because of the US interfering and meddling. Setting up puppets, taking them down when they don't agree anymore, invading countries, deposing elected leaders and operating like a rogue nation.

Yes, it slowed down a wee bit with Obama but it's ranked up again under your current dumbo.

The US govt is a terrorist organization and it makes me sad to have to state this. We wept when 3000 lost their lives nearly 20 years ago. We continue to pray and hope you will triumph over the illness within, but when you elected this madman, this crook, this cancer... the tears turned to bewilderment.

Why does America continue to self-harm?

Anyway, truly desperate stuff from those trying to justify this act of terrorism

Ha!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-soleimani-insight/inside-the-plot-by-irans-soleimani-to-attack-us-forces-in-iraq-idUSKBN1Z301Z

what's the saying.....'he had it comin'.

I'm not a fan of Trump, but Soleimani, he's a badass...