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Operation Epic Fury

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The USA/Israel launch “preemptive strikes“ in Iran.
Trump urges protesters in another country to rise up and change the regime that they live under.
What sane person will take to the streets whilst attacks continue?

So far, it just looks like theater to dodge the fact the Israeli-Palestinian situation has genuinely deteriorated into a moral trauma and the mideast peace process has been sabotaged by two bad faith conmen.
 
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So far, it just looks like theater to dodge the fact the Israeli-Palestinian situation has genuinely deteriorated into a moral trauma and the mideast peace process has been sabotaged by two bad faith conmen.
I saw the President’s announcement (from Mar-a-Lago), apparently Iran left us no choice but to bomb them. They’ve brought it upon themselves. The President hopes that the Iranian people will use this time of turmoil to oust the current 48 year regime. How they’re going to know what is going on now that their leaders have throttled the Internet, is anyone’s guess. (All that an average Iranian is going to know is that things are blowing up.)
 
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In more interesting news, it appears that Iran fired some missiles at US bases. I guess since they returned fire first, this will be justification for even more violence.
 
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What was preempted this time? Was it the obliterated nuclear program?

They're just words but the POTUS has the right to declare war on any country with or without justification and the congress can do nothing to stop it. But for sake of avoiding protests, the POTUS still has to make up a justification even if it's just a lie.

That's just one of the huge privileges/power granted to the POTUS.
 
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So far, it just looks like theater to dodge the fact the Israeli-Palestinian situation has genuinely deteriorated into a moral trauma and the mideast peace process has been sabotaged by two bad faith conmen.

And also to misdirect people's attention from Trump's spectacular failures. Many former presidents have done the same usually to improve polls. Improving polls through mass murder and the sacrifice of innocents.
 
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They're just words but the POTUS has the right to declare war on any country with or without justification and the congress can do nothing to stop it.

The president has the power to command the military to make war, they do not have the power to declare war.

But for sake of avoiding protests, the POTUS still has to make up a justification even if it's just a lie.

At this point they are skipping even that fig leaf.

That's just one of the huge privileges/power granted to the POTUS.
The power to declare war rests with congress not the president.
 
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(Sits down, sips a soft drink, and chuckles).

Yep, the reactions here are running as expected.

Not that anyone will listen, but the cartoonist Howard Tayler once penned Maximum 29 from The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries: :The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

Have fun.
 
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