Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
So we are gonna do the Iraq WMD lie again huh?
I still have people telling me it wasn’t Bush’s fault, the intelligence was bad
Well, they’re half right, but not in the sense they mean…
Of course there are ZERO valid reasons to go to war in the ME.
People still believe Iraq had WMDs to this day.
This season’s twist is that the Intelligence community is claiming that there is no weapons. Unless the Intelligence community is doing reverse psychological on us.
The CIA reported no wmds before the invasion of Iraq too
wasn’t YET building?
I mean… Why do you even get the uranium enriched to such high levels if you don’t plan to make use of it?
Power plants fueling desalination. There is alot of material about it. It’s part of the treaties with America. But to refine to weapon grade uranium is not a technological enhancement, you simply run the same enrichment procedure multiple times is my understanding. The main difference is the tricky detonation, but come on, that’s decades old tech.
The treaties were made with the understanding they could make nukes if they wanted to.
Despite your shitlib stance, I will concede that Iran should gave veen trying to build a nuke as a deterrent for exactly this scenario. The US never attacks nuclear powers. Trump even sucks off Kim Jong Un on weekend getaways.
The more he dismiss America’s intelligence agencies, the more i believe them.
Yep exactly. If he says something I assume the opposite is true. I’m not saying this for comedy value, I genuinely do
The moron just wants the war to hide his shenaningans at home. Sole reason. Everyone should know by now that he automatically denies any and every thing that runs contrary to his own personal narrative.
other problems make for a great distraction from the original problem. i suspect that’s the reason behind a lot of trump’s actions
Tulsi Gabbard is a well known Iranian asset. She’s been on their payroll for years. Of course she said that they weren’t building a nuclear weapon, that’s what they paid her to say. The entire Trump regime is corrupt.
I’ve heard the accusation that she’s a Russian asset, but Iranian? First time I’ve ever heard that one.
Well known by whom, exactly?
Lol, she’s a literal Hindu nationalist. That’s about as far from an Iranian asset as possible
I love people putting “well known” before completely baseless accusations
Reddit-ass geopolitical experts.
We have done this dance before last time it cost me my 20s my sanity and most importantly a huge amount for friends I loved like brothers who died before and are still killing then selfs…
Tulsi has no home and has continually played herself. Congratulations.
why the fuck would a facist regime enrich so much uranium to such high levels? death to the iranian regime I say. follow reza pahlavi and not the pervy mullahs.
The son of the source of the tragedy? You Zios are too stupid
ah, everyone who dislikes the facist regime of iran is a zionist now. you are just underlining my point.
You support the son of the shah who’s killed Iranians. You do not care about Iranians and are happy to sacrifice them so israel put a puppet regime instead. The history show us how it always back fire and lead to creation of resistance group who hate the west
why the fuck would a facist regime
Citation needed.
follow reza pahlavi and not the pervy mullahs.
The son of the Shah? That’s… uh… a tenuous proposition, to say the least.
Are you seriously defending the mullah regime? Do you know anything about what’s happening in Iran?
Yes, and I know it’s not fascism. “Fascism” is a word that has a meaning, and that meaning is not “authoritarian regime I don’t like”.
I would say most if not all boxes of fascism by definition are ticked in Iran.
Dictatorial leader, forceful suppression of any opposition and/or critics, strong militarism, centralized autocracy, nation above the individual, a strong regimentation of society, …
I’m not sure how militarized Iranian society is, but most of what you said applies to most dictatorships. On the other hand,
Ultranationalism, combined with the myth of national rebirth, is a key foundation of fascism.[271] Robert Paxton argues that “a passionate nationalism” is the basis of fascism, combined with “a conspiratorial and Manichean view of history” which holds, “the chosen people have been weakened by political parties, social classes, unassimilable minorities, spoiled rentiers, and rationalist thinkers.”[272] Roger Griffin identifies the core of fascism as being palingenetic ultranationalism.
-Wikipedia. The idea that there are undesirables in society who must be purged or suppressed to achieve national (as in racial) unity and greatness is a core tenet of fascism that is conspicuously absent from Iran. I mean hell, if Iran was running anything like this they’d go after their Jews (which they have a small number of), Christians or Sunni Muslims to rile up the Shia majority, but they don’t.
do you read news at all?
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sktf6cyegg
he is calling for days, all media covers it and you think saying it in the fediverse is tenuous? maybe telegram groups are more your thing.
and on the facist regime i want to quote: “Iran has insisted that it is not developing a bomb and that its nuclear program remains non-weaponized for peaceful energy purposes, though international inspectors have found increasing evidence to the contrary. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reported that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium—just below weapons-grade—has grown large enough to produce multiple bombs if further enriched. Analysts say Iran could theoretically produce a bomb’s worth of material in as little as a week, and that no other country has that level of uranium without a nuclear weapons program.”
https://time.com/7294133/iran-israel-nuclear-program-attack/
what else than a facist would do that? shitty mullahs behave like patrick star “nO. mAybe wE wAnt to wIpe all Jews. tihihihihi.” irans regime should just die and anyone who thinks their childish shennanigans still fly ist just dumb. follow pahlavi.
Not only is trump ignoring this, but lots and lots of shitlibs on this site are also.
That’s fine. Iraq didn’t have WMDs either. They just need a lie to sell it to the public.
What’s the context for this photo?
Colin Powell lies to congress about “facts” and “evidence” of WMDs in Iraq that led to a 20 year war
The UN. This picture was when he lied to the UN about WMDs in Iraq.
My bad, he lied so much it’s hard to keep it straight
Military control is power, and Trump wants to control the most powerful military in the history of the world. Nothing can stop him, except maybe the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH WHO SHOULD 25th amendment his bitch ass!
He’s an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality
He’s spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it
He’s a child, and what’s worse, he has dementia.
He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness
Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.
“But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We’ll take the dementia-addled toddler instead”
Don’t forget that under the orange paint, he’s white
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Didn’t matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.
The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won’t say “I’m a sexist pig” in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like “She didn’t explain her policies enough” or “She wasnt authentic enough” instead.
Why do women win Governor elections, then?
Because not every state is full of misogyny
That is not so clear-cut https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/ I’d have to go see if there is any correlation between these and Kamala/Hillary’s results, but I’m not expecting it to be strong.
(Oh, and of course, I didn’t check if any of these elections were woman vs woman, where it would not serve as an indicator of misogyny to elect a woman)
My point is that even women can win elections in deep red states, particularly if they follow “conservative” values close enough. But then again president has the whole commander-in-chief aura…ok…
The idea that the only reason she lost is because of being a woman is incredibly stupid.
I don’t agree. Take the same political stances and ethos, but have it come from Keith Harris (or even Kailash or Kenan Harris) instead, and he is seen as decisive and likeable.
Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.
One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.
The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.
Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.
Hillary Clinton was the most qualified Presidential candidate you’ve had since Eisenhower.
Yeah? Well my pop tart fell on the floor this morning. I think I’ll sit out 2028.
He is. She is a Russian asset.
Who’s “she” here? I’ll assume in good faith that this is a typo
… Tulsi Gabbard
We have irrefutable proof, that we can’t show you, that Iran is stoning babies in the incubators with yellow cake.
yeeeah… shrug, Trump ignores them all. And why shouldn’t he? They didn’t prevent him from happening, what’s the point of the CIA, NSA etc when they either knew about him & putin, and let hit happen, or, they didn’t know, even though it’s been obvious since the 80s?
Nice job Intel community, you shot us all in the face.
So we oppose US intelligence agencies overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries but not their own?
if your own intelligence organs don’t warn your gov that there’s a foreign power influencing the election, yeah, I think that group isn’t doing their fucking job.
The situation could be more nuanced. Putin lost in Syria and Europe is split from Russia and massively spending on weapons. That’s already a huge win, maybe big enough to accept a bleeding face.
tell that to the tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians murdered.
When was that ever a concern for the elite in power?
They’re not reading my comments on lemmy.
Why do you give two flying fucks at a rolling donut what they think?
I fail to see your point regardless.
The point is to be additional arms of the government that he can manipulate and abuse to his own ends.
him & putin
obvious since the 80s
I can see a major problem with that timeline, but I suppose wild conspiracy theories don’t have to make sense
