House Votes to Repeal 2002 AUMF, Rein in Trump on Iran War 11 Republicans vote to repeal 2002 AUMFJason DitzPosted onat antiwar.com
On Thursday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed a pair of amendments aimed at curtailing President Trump’s war-making ability, particularly as it relates to attacking Iran. The amendments were added to the WW2 Merchant Mariner Gold Medal Act.
The first amendment, passed 228-175, noted that no military action against Iran could take place without prior Congressional authorization. Four Republicans joined most Democrats in voting for the measure, 21 abstained. Though this is legally speaking always the case, recent presidents have claimed the ability to start unilateral wars when Congress doesn’t explicitly preclude them.
The second amendment, passed 236-166, repeals the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq (AUMF). 11 Republicans joined most Democrats in voting for the measure, 22 Republicans did not vote. This AUMF was meant to allow the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Some have argued the AUMF also allows attacks in Syria and Iran, despite not specifically saying that, because they are close to Iraq.
The stronger Republican support for repealing the AUMF shows that party’s unity in pro-war legislation is starting to crack a bit. The AUMF vote was likely less controversial because President Trump suggested on Twitter that he didn’t object, and invited Representatives to “vote your heart.” He did, however, rail against the other vote.
The future of the legislation was uncertain in the Republican-led Senate, where an effort to pass an Iran-related war powers resolution has been stalled during Trump’s impeachment trial.
Trump Refuses to Rein in Antifa Even When they Terrorize His Base, to Please His Zionist Paymasters
With the 50-60,000 strong Democratic Socialists of America recently electing to provide material support and manpower to the once tiny cells of anarchist terrorists, this red terror is only getting worse.
By Eric Striker of the National Interest
This haunting image of an elderly man being pummeled and robbed by anarchists while leaving a Donald Trump rally in Minneapolis ought to be on the front page of every conservative outlet. It isn't. Instead, the homepages of Breitbart and Drudge are occupied with Zionist war propaganda (Against Iran), Hillary Clinton drama (irrelevant has been political actor) and Pocohantas jokes (Puerile juvenile racist jokes that make the right appear dumb racists.)
That's because this disgusting scene is more embarrassing to conservatives and president Trump than it is to the army of psychopaths who have taken over the streets of our major cities since 2016. They (The Jews) fear a congruent response from the public, similar to what was seen at Berkeley and Charlottesville, that could up-end the status quo far more than masked criminals effectively making Trump's supporters afraid to go outside.
The main strawman right-wing (and left-wing) critics of popular defense groups attack is that some anti-communist organizations have National Socialist or Fascist leanings, and thus they are "impossible" or "bad optics" to defend when the ADL and the unfree press construct comic book Manichean narratives about it.
Yet outside of the largely purged Ann Coulter, not one right-wing figure will come to the full-throated defense of non-racial groups defending their communities from communist brutality with traditional flag-waving conservative ideologies like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys. As we speak, Proud Boy Tusitala "Tiny" Toese and Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson are fighting trumped up and selectively applied felony charges related to an incident at "Cider Riot," where they defended themselves in a bar state regulators now admit is owned by a Jewish anarchist soccer hooligan who used the venue to host meetings with armed leftist paramilitary groups.
In places like Minnesota and Oregon, Trump can claim that the federal government technically does not have jurisdiction over Antifa embracing mayors like Ted Wheeler using their local police forces as support cavalry for groups like "Rose City Antifa." But if Trump appointee Thomas Cullen can use his power as a federal prosecutor to go after men like Daniel McMahon ("Jack Corbin") in retaliation for unmasking deep state's commie vigilantes, why isn't the White House ordering a crackdown on groups terrorizing its own supporters and voters?
The problem of anarchist and communist violence is only getting worse. Thanks to the corruption of local police departments, controlled media and government, journalists who are not extreme-leftists themselves like Andy Ngo and Tim Pool are afraid to objectively cover these events.
The massive wave of political censorship on Youtube and Twitter has made it difficult for independent journalists to share data, images and videos that might challenge the lies in print, as seen in the case of Dr Eoin Lenihan. When some truth does shine through the cracks at Fox News, the conservative ideology of profits being above white people leads to a distorted lens where damage to property, police overtime costs and the broken windows of corporate restaurants are emphasized while bleeding heads and terrified elders are papered over.
As for the left-wing paramilitary groups, they are growing in number and are emboldened not only by Trump's flagrant inaction, but by his FBI's campaign of violent suppression and solitary confinement torture against those who decided to make a stand and protect ordinary citizens engaging in their First Amendment rights.
With the 50-60,000 strong Democratic Socialists of America recently electing to provide material support and manpower to the once tiny cells of anarchist terrorists, this red terror is only getting worse. The blackshirts and Proud Boys who once provided security to normal Americans have all been sued or imprisoned.
Never have normal, socially conservative Americans been more censored and afraid to speak their minds than today, under Trump. Trump's pathetic gaggle of gay and Jewish pundits at Prager, Blaze, TPUSA(Breibart, Drudge, Infowars) that he has betrayed his original populist movement for have no interest in anything other than their immediate financial well-being and Israel.
Going into 2020, Trump's only major achievement has been to Make Antifa Great Again.
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. Ukraine is where significant IRANIAN tribes resided, and still reside with 'Slavic' and other new identities that are inevitably adopted when a dominant invader imposes their culture and language (800 AD out of Siberia in the case of the Slavs one of many groups and waves of Uighur-Turkic-Altaic tribes 'sadly' descended on Aryan Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe.---450 AD to 1300 AD......fragmenting the massive INDO-EUROPEAN BLOCK between India to Northern EUROPE and Eurasia) Scythians Sarmatians Alans/Alani In Ukraine more recently when the Jewish Bolsheviks took over they obviously turned society upside down. Their primary hatred was reserved for the Russian intelligenstia and elite--the old order, which also happened to be dominated by Indo-EUROPEANS.
The Jewish Bolshevik revolution was a RACIAL revolution presented as a class struggle AND also A RELIGIOUS struggle where Jews would dominate the vast empire for the first time in history, but not as Jews but through the SLAV. Altaic Slavs were promoted in the Soviet Union, as the Jews considered them lower races that could be easily controlled against the traditionally dominant Indo-Europeans. (African-Americans and Latino Hispanics in the case of the USA) This is what the Globalist Jew thinks (NOT MY POINT OF VIEW) The Ukraine on the other hand was given priority by the Soviet Jews as a means of downsizing Russia, save for the Holmidor of 1932-1933. The borders of the new state was expanded and significant parts of Southern Russia, filled with Russians were latched onto Ukraine as were parts of Eastern EUROPE. The state was anointed with heavy industry and served as an economic model. Several Soviet leaders also had Ukrainian connections----Nikita Khruschev and Leonid Brezhnev......AND save for the Holmidor and WWII Ukraines population could have easily reached 80 million when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, instead of a mere 52 million then. But alas the Jew is focused on Ukraine with a different mindset, even as most have left the country save for a mere 100,000 of them. Most of Ukraines leaders since 1991 and the Soviet collapse have been Jews...suggesting a closed shop cabal of Jews annionting the next Jew leader to maintain their power...through contrived 'election'. Most of the Mafia Oligarch leaders are Jews, save for a few Muslim billionaires who don't do politics---The economy is shrinking, and obviously the population is also disappearing from 52 million in 1991 to 37.3 million. But amazingly through the Jew control of the MEDIA (MSM) the Jew in Ukraine continues in power looting the country and its massive wealth and resources...and potential. And most bizzarely promoting Ukrainian Neo-Nazis who collaborated with the Nazis from WWII....as a means of driving a separating wedge between Ukraine and their natural genetic bretheren whom they should be aligning with, RUSSIA. Ofcourse the Jew in the Ukraine can't do ALL this by himself......he must get help from the international Globalist Jew. America seems to have taken a very keen interest in Ukraine, sponsoring the illegal Jewish regime in Kiev. This seems to have intensified under Donald Trump, who may after all be a crypto-Jew on his fathers side. Israel is also involved in especially training and directing the Neo-Nazi groups in the Ukraine (stated in a matter of fact way with a straight face) Finally Putin's Russia is also involved in manner of his stand offish attitude towards Ukraine (Putin is a Slav with a slav face and possibly a Jewish mother.....who after 30 years of Neo-Liberal experiment thinks that maybe Keynsian DEMAND SIDE ECONOMICS MIGHT MAYBE BE POSSIBLY I THINK I AM WONDERing COULD have some relevancy for the Russian economy), minimal help that he has given to the Ukraians who don't want to live under the Jews (Visiting Jerusalem millions of times, and recieveing Nothingyahu a billion times in Moscow---gay affair between the two? whilst the top leadership of the breakaway pro-Russia's leadership in the Eastern rump have all been assassinated by the Ukrainians???).....and of course Russian soldiers are available for Libya to fight for the CIA trained General Hafter. The future of IRANIAN Ukraine is grim under the Jew, and one does not know how this situation will solve itself.
Ukraine’s Population Has Dropped From 52 Million Under the Soviets to 37 Million Today
Just 5 million of that is due to the loss of Crimea andDonbass
By anti-empire.
New census finds that there are 37.3M people in the Ukraine, down by almost 30% relative to their Soviet era peak of 52M. This means that at least semi-officially, the Ukraine now has a lower population than Poland for the first time in recorded history.
In reality, even this is probably a significant overestimate:
Difference between the two figures, both of which exclude Crimea and the LDNR: 0.8M
So either pretty much the entire LDNR migrated to Ukraine, or there’s just ~1-1.5M Ukrainian Gastarbeiters. Neither are very plausible. Life in the LDNR isn’t great, but it beats homelessness elsewhere. And it is estimated that there is at least one million Ukrainians in Poland alone – something that can be anecdotally confirmed by a few Uber trips in Warszawa.
There’s a reason I put apostrophes around Census. It is nothing of the sort: Actual censuses in the Ukraine have been postponed ever since 2001, with the next one tentatively planned for this year (assuming it isn’t canceled again). This is just an estimate based on the number of cell phones, taxpayer records, and the pensions/social registry. Without delving into methodology: People can have multiple SIM cards; you don’t get auto-deleted from taxpayer and pensions registries when you leave (especially if it’s for seasonal Gastarbeiter work like most Ukrainian emigration is).
This allows us to introduce more nuance to discussions about Ukrainian demographics beyond simplistic takes such as the greater fertility rates of the Far West and the “dying out” of the east.
Because those are long-term considerations. In the immediate present, Ukrainian demographics is dominated by differential migration rates.
(1) The poorer rural areas – and these are primarily the western ones – are emptying out at a rate that far exceeds their fertility advantage. Although it is true that all pretty much all Ukrainian regions now contribute Gastarbeiters to Visegrad, whereas once it was overwhelmingly westerners, the latter are still doing much more of it as a share of their population. 20-25% of the populations of those regions are missing, and as I argued above, that is probably an underestimate.
(2) The Novorossiya regions with the millionik industrial cities – Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, even Zaporozhye – are declining to a much lesser extent, with strong immigration from within Ukraine largely balancing out the Gastarbeiters they spew out into Visegrad and Russia. So as far as future Ukraine-Russia relations go, the important question now becomes whether the Ukrainian immigrants to these cities impose their own culture on these regions, which are more Russophile than the Ukrainian average (esp. Kharkov and Odessa); or whether they assimilate to the existing values of the old residents. Historically, it’s usually the latter.
(3) As Cicerone points out, even as the Ukraine empties out, Kiev might have paradoxically become one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, with an estimated population of 3.7M vs. the official 3.0M: “This is more realistic as well, as by official figures, the TFR in Kiev is much higher than the national average, which doesn’t really make sense.”
(4) Surprisingly, both Donetsk oblast and – especially – Lugansk oblasts have many more people than official statistics suggest (after subtracting official LDNR stats). Presumably, some of that reflects genuine LDNR emigration – primarily for economic reasons, since wages in the LDNR are now low relative to the Ukraine, whereas Donetsk’s were once second only to Kiev’s; but in a few cases for ideological reasons, too. However, I suspect a significant or majority part of this “migration” is fictive, driven by a combination of the need to maintain documentation within the Ukraine for banal bureaucratic reasons. At any rate, the huge discrepancy between Donetsk and Lugansk suggests something fishy afoot.
Soborno Isaac Bari[2] is a Bengali-American[3] prodigy[4] born on April 9, 2012 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens in NYC.[5] Bari's father, Rashidul, and mother, Shaheda, were immigrants from Bangladesh. Bari[6] also has a brother, Refath. His parents noticed[7] he began talking in full sentences at 6 months[8] and was able to Solve mathematics,[9] physics,[7] and chemistry problems at 2 years old. His parents started recording his problem-solving abilities and shared his videos on social media,[10] some of which caught the attention of local TV channels[11] and colleges in New York. On November 3, 2014, when Bari was only two years old, Medgar Evers College Vice President Jerald Posman took his interview.[12]
Bari's problem-solving abilities caught the attention of Voice of America (VOA).[13] On February 13, 2015, VOA invited 2 1/2-year-old Bari for an interview, to test his intellectual abilities in math, physics, and chemistry. VOA published Bari's interview on their website and broadcast his interview twice, mentioning that Bari was the youngest[14] interviewee since the birth of VOA in 1942.
On 21 April 2016, Dr. Lisa Coico,[15] President of City College of New York, gave Bari the nickname “Einstein of our time”[16] for his achievement on a series of tests in math and science.[17] In 2016, at age 4, Bari[18] received a letter of recognition[19] from President Barack Obama for his accomplishments in math and science,[20] and in 2018, at age 6, he received a letter of recognition[21] from Harvard University[22] for his problem-solving abilities. Bari[23] was accepted into New York City's gifted and talented program later the same year[24]
On April 24, 2018, Dr. Thomas Isekenegbe,[25] President of Bronx C. College, interviewed Bari to learn more about his anti-terrorism campaign[26] and upcoming book, The Love, to promote his anti-terrorism campaign[27] of the same name.
Soborno received an invitation from Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Vice Chancellor of SP Pune University Nitin Karmalkar[30], and Principal of Ruia Autonomous College Dr. Anurhsee Lokur to make a trip to India. On January 3, 2020, Soborno received the Global Child Prodigy Award from Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi. On January 4, 2020[31], Soborno gave a physics and computer science lecture at Ruia College, and was recognized by Principal of Ruia College[32] Dr. Anurshee Lokur. On January 6, 2020[33], Soborno gave a book talk[34] on his book, "The Love" at SP Pune University[35] in front of University faculty, students, and alumni.
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. One of the regimes to practise mass torture was the Catholic Inquisition of Spain in the Late Middle Ages. This was preceded by the early Middle Ages witch hunt against Witches and Witch Craft---which may have claimed the lives of 60,000 mostly women and 100,000's processed through the torture chambers until in was discredited in the 17th century in Europe, though its practise continued in the USA. Then we arrive in the Jewish Bolshevik revolution of the former Russian Empire which practised torture on an industrial scale preceding the NAZIS .....with 60 million deaths from 1917--1991.(I mention it as the Jewish run media in the West CELEBRATED the Holocaust with much hype and pomp, involving world leaders in solemnity, dignity, guilt....with a pinch of Iran bashing--rather tasteless equating the CIA mullahs with the Nazis) Then finally, almost ....we of course have the Nazis of Germany who are most famous because their torture was the most recent and the most documented.....The death of 6 million Jews, and along with them millions of others in concentration camps, but also outside them by einsattzgruppen troops who also killed millions in the occupied battle field...outside of the concentration camps. Finally we have Pol Pot in his Communist paradise which claimed the lives of a quarter of the population in Cambodia. As the masses were heared into UN-economic and UN-livable villages into year zero, their specialty was to photograph victims in their finest clothes, before being executed (so in the gulags if you were photographed it meant eventual execution a day later or a week....) And so into this illustrious group of cultish genociders we must add the GLOBALIST CIA. .....its black rendition sites, torture chambers, people kidnapped off the streets, ....dogs used to bugger inmates, slashing of penises using razor blades and so on. All good habits copied from the Nazis and first practised in IRAN under the SAVAK created by the CIA, with hired Nazis from Germany. CIA torture has a long history dating back to Iran and 1953. https://www11.123movie.cc/movies/the-report/ What is interrogation? What is torture? Why torture if you should be interrogating like in a 'REAL WAR'?
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One of the CIA's waterboarding torturers called himself "The Preacher" and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions
By Cory Doctorow at Bongo Bongo blogspot
More word from the ongoing attempt to bring the people responsible for years of CIA torture to justice: one of the three waterboarding specialists at Guantanamo was called "The Preacher" because while he was drowning suspects to the point of near death, he "would at random times put one hand on the forehead of a detainee, raise the other high in the air, and in a deep Southern drawl say things like, 'Can you feel it, son? Can you feel the spirit moving down my arm, into your body?'"
The sadistic torturer's real name isn't known. He was codenamed NZ7.
Mitchell testified again about The Preacher this week during a pre-trial hearing for five of the men charged with planning and abetting the 9/11 attacks.
Mitchell's testimony paints him as a moderate torturer who was locked in internecine struggle with the CIA's in-house "interrogation chief," codenamed NX2 and believed to be Charlie Wise, a notorious torturer who practiced his craft in Nicaragua for the Contras (Wise died in 2003).
Mitchell describes how, on his tours of CIA torture sites, he would express concern that the techniques employed would maim the victims, and was silenced and even effectively incarcerated -- confined to an overseas base with no contact with the outside world. He said he was only released because the "tension" was "damaging morale."
When the senior officials flew in, on 17 August, he waterboarded Abu Zubaydah even though he was quite sure the detainee had no actionable intelligence to surrender. It was done purely as a demonstration for the agency VIPs. And he applied the technique to the maximum extent allowed, pouring water on to a cloth on the prisoner’s face for 20 seconds and then a full 40 seconds. According to a CIA cable describing the event, Abu Zubaydah went into spasm.
The visitors were stunned. “Some of the folks were tearful,” Mitchell said.
“I was tearful, but I cry at dog food commercials,” Mitchell claimed. The psychologist’s eyes did indeed well up on a few occasions during his testimony this week, but the tears came when he was describing what he saw as his personal sacrifices. In contrast, he described waterboarding dispassionately, characterising it as “temporary discomfort”.
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. Why must Iranian leaders have to watch their language and be super polite with references to Donald TRUMP, BUT NOT PEOPLE in other nations including America? Why does a satanic Jewish left-wing talk show host have a free pass against violent repercussions by the state, but not Iranian leaders politicking within their own circle or outside to a wider audience? Why does Donald Trump like to dish it out talking Jewey and unpresidential, but can't handle the same from Iranian leaders specifically? Is it because the USA is a special nation, a hyper-power..the exceptional nation run by Jews, and therefore apocalyptic Jew talking points against other nations, and their leaders is the new normal and OK...... 'Putin is Hitler' 'The mullahs aren't gonna git nuke weapons' 'al-CIA-duh and ISIS' are a global threat so stand behind the USA security leadership and COOPERATE with black rendition sights of medievel Catholic inquisition torture chambers.' 'Saddam has WMD's and he can deploy them in 45 minutes via aluminum's tubes' 'Saddam tried to kill my pappy'
A being that is benign, gentle, intelligent.......(civilized)...even though it cannot speak. Certainly there are other primates which are violent, that do commit the equivalence of genocide...that on certain occasions practise trickery and deceit. Orangutans are not like that ...they are benevolent and benign.
President Trump's 3D Chess for Likud Israel, and his relatives there. The stable genius making masterful decisions that benefit America, and not the 1 percent or the MIC.
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Provocations against Iran by the USA NOT MENTIONED by the major:
ASSASSINATION of scientists inside Iran by USA proxies. ASSASSINATION of government personnel especially Revolutionary Guards INSIDE IRAN by USA using SUNNI TERRORIST GROUPS JUNDALLAH, and Kurdish groups PJAK....and more recently ISIS AGAINST a military parade in SOUTHERN IRAN. ... The very serious PROVOCATION BY THE USA TO USE ISIS TO DESTABILISE AND OVER THROW THE MULLAH REGIME FROM 2014....... The sanctions provocations.......AND ECONOMIC WAREFARE against Iran. ........ The very real military plans to destroy Iranian infrastructure and culture so that it can no longer function as an VALUABLE PARTNER IN THE EURASIAN INTEGRATION PLANS OF Russia/ China...... tHE VERY REAL THREAT TO DESTROY AND DESTABILISE THE REGIME and replace it with a Marxist cult MEK WHICH OBVIOUSLY THE MULLAHS UNDERSTAND WILL LEAD TO A BLOOD BATH......as the mullahs themselves killed 30,000??? MEK members in prison with families when it appeared that they had lost the Gulf war in 1988, and Saddam might again march to TEHRAN....WHILST THE USA simultaneously supports ISIS.
There is no 'strategy' here by the USA but is a long process of CHAOS in the region, and specifically against IRAN BY THE EMPIRE OF CHAOS.....for Israel, and for Christian religiously extremist nutjobs, and the MIC profits.
That is why everything the USA does overtly and covertly in the region and against IRAN specifically appears IRRATIONAL AND ILLEGAL, AND CONTRADICTORY.......with fumbling lies as excuses.
The mullahs DON'T respond to American provocations because the USA is much more powerful conventionally, but also the mullahs don't want to create a powerful military AS A RESPONSE TO AMERICAN BULLYING inside Iran with which the mullahs then have to nervously share power with (Pakistan/USA/Nort Korea). That is why defense spending since the end of the Iran Iraq war has been consistently around 3% of GDP in Iran even during the dark days of Bush II threats from 2007, and the Axis of Evil label.
This is why the mullahs have created a parallel security organisation which enjoys more media coverage than the conventional Iranian military---PASDARAN the revolutionary Guards, and the Basij.
The Mullahs motivations beyond Israeli propaganda and paranioa are as follows:
1. Maintain the survival of the SHIA mullah regime.
2. Aid fellow Shia's in the region against attacks from Sunni groups and states.(Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen)
3. Enrich themselves as much as possible from the vast wealth potential of the Persian state and people. Top echelons of the mullah regime are ALL multi-millionaires without any skilling or undertaking any actual business.(corruption/kleptocracy)
The mullahs of Iran are the little moth that constantly bumps against the bright NEON-CONNED lightS of America.
The mullahs mistake the fact the CIA/State Department brought them into power with extensive direct contact face to face ......in Paris, in Italy, Oman, Jordan and so forth as (Iran/Contra The October Surprise 1980 Afghanistan 2001 Iraq 2003 and many more covert ops together---Quds Brigade requested by the USA to come into Iraq)......as representing a serious relationship and love in by the USA state with mullah Iran. AND the hope that relations could be normalised.....with acceptance under International law. This is wishful thinking on the mullahs part.
The mullahs were brought in power by the USA to deligitimate IRAN FROM 1979, precisely so that it could be attacked as a 'bad actor'.......under Israeli direction, for GREATER ISREAL....Ertez Israel.
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. Did you know that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989/91 because the INNER JEW in that country represented by the KGB decided to run the show, based on state decisions which were lies built on lies. Yuri Andropov was a JEW, and the head of the KGB, as were many other Soviet leaders ..... The collapse of the Soviet Union was not inevitable, but the INNER JEW (state within a state--the higher echelons of the Politburo and the KGB) created it. The North Korea Communist paradise with 25% of GDP on defense, 1.2 million under arms and a MERE $40 billion PPP GDP......with millions dying from famine and starvation STILL STANDS STRONG.....frightening the South Koreans, Japan and other nations.
On Friday, President Trump said he believed that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was plotting to attack four US embassies. He offered the American public no evidence of this, which seems to be the same treatment Defense Secretary Mark Esper got. On Sunday’s news shows, Esper struggled with this question. On CBS, he said he’d seen no evidence at all to support the idea that US embassies were under threat. He did say he shares the president’s view that “probably” the embassies would’ve been attacked. This again suggests there isn’t good evidence to back up the president’s claim, as Esper presumably would’ve been in the loop on that matter if there had been. By his second appearance of the day, on CNN, Esper was more supportive of the Trump narrative, saying what Trump said “is what I believe as well.” He added that Iran “probably could have been targeting the embassies.”
Even later, Esper was bragging of “exquisite intelligence” he received. He claimed everyone was in agreement that Congress must not be given access to this intelligence. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has continued to express concern about the quality of information given to Congress, and it seems that may extend to national security officials. President Trump never even suggested the four embassies belief had evidence behind it, it was just what he believes. This raises the distinct possibility that Trump came up with this Iranian plot, because it sounded good to justify the US assassination of Soleimani, and everyone else in the administration is just rubber stamping it because contradicting Trump is a risky career move.
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. NOBODY save the oil companies want a $200 barrel oil PRICE, or higher. Not even the Iranians, who anyway won't be able to do business DURING WAR, save for the limited trade via Russia and China via Central Asia (OBOR)...Where Iran becomes far more dependant and beholden to them. The American economy will of course collapse. Just in time for President Biden to be elected in November 2020. President Biden will of course at his inaugeration thank his greatest ELECTION STRATEGIST, Donald J Trump. The Demon Dems unfettered after January 2021, controlling both houses will then pursue Trump full throttle. NEVER get over emotional with your INNER JEW, whilst you are doing business. This ain't WWI, where once the armies of the Central Powers and Entente Cordiale powers started their MOBILISATION timetable, there was no going back in August 1914.
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Tweets Suggest US-Iran Conflict Deescalating After Tuesday’s Attacks
Iranian FM emphasizes strikes were proportionate self-defense
Tweets issued by President Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif are suggesting the two sides may be coming to a position of understanding that would end the tit-for-tat escalation and restore the ex ante situation. Zarif sought to frame the Tuesday attacks on US targets as “proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter.” He indicated Iran doesn’t intend any further actions. Assuming the US doesn’t attack Iran again, this would settle the matter. President Trump’s own statement was a lot less clear, emphasizing how great the US military is, but saying that “all is well.” It seems that the US also considering the matter settled is at least possible, though Trump said he is making a statement in the morning. Considering the circumstances, this could be a best-case scenario and a chance to step down for everyone, capping what looked like a might be progressive escalation on both sides. Neither side has a major reason to launch any more strikes. Helping in reaching that end situation is that Iran appears to have gone out of its way not to inflict casualties in the strikes. This means Iran can present its retaliation domestically as proportionate, and the Trump Administration doesn’t have any casualties that it feels it has to retaliate over.
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. Perhaps a better MO has appeared, why Solemani was assassinated by the USA than my Israeli elections hypothesis.(That still holds in my opinion) Solemani was in Iraq for the purpose of COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY with Saudi Arabia for PEACE between the two Great nations. GENERAL Solemani was an emissary of peace, for the Mullah regime, according to high ranking IRAQI officials. This PEACE MISSION would be a major NO NO for the Israelis and Neocon Americans, as they had invested heavily in Saudi Arabia, and building it up as an enemy of Mullah Iran.
Saudi Arabia is important for the Israelis and USA, as it is the country which sponsors $$$$ with other GCC countries ALL SUNNI terrorists, around whom the Israelis and the USA arm, train, direct and lead(use).....in specific theaters based on their special geo-political objectives of fifth column destabilization.
The Iran bogeyman threat has been used in the GCC and Saudi Arabia in particular to sell the biggest arms exports deal in American history--$800 billion over 10 years to Saudi Arabia.
By killing Solemani, the USA and Israel prevent PEACE emerging between the two countries IN THE SHORT TERM.
In the long term PEACE between Saudi Arabia and Iran becomes more obviously clear and necessary (from their perspective), after Solemani's assassination.
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Soleimani Was in Baghdad on Mission for Saudi Peace
Iraqi PM says Soleimani was supposed to deliver reply to Saudi message
On Thursday night, the US assassinated top Iranian Gen. Qassam Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport. His arrival was actually part of ongoing diplomatic efforts, according to Iraqi PM Adel Abdul-Mahdi. Soleimani’s visit was related to well-documented Saudi attempts at diplomacy to ease tensions with Iran. The Saudis had dispatched a message of peace to Iran, with Iraq acting as an intermediary. Soleimani was coming to Iraq to deliver the Iranian government’s reply. The US assassination, then, undercut the peace effort to an enormous level. Iraq was keen to facilitate peace between its two neighbors, hopefully to calm down US threats against Iran. Instead, the US undercut the entire process. It’s not clear this totally ends the Saudi effort for peace, though it may be difficult for Iran to safely get messengers into Baghdad in the near future, with the US rather openly threatening more assassinations.
