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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReality check:: Trump: They weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East.
Trump: They weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked
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The Cradle:
Iran officially warned in a letter to the UN on 19 February that US military bases across West Asia will become legitimate targets if the Islamic Republic comes under attack by Washington.
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rampartd
(4,555 posts)for 50 years. who would have ever thought????
one guy who "would have thought" was the emir of qatar. the "pro quo" for the gold plated airplane was "you don't LET this happen."
spanone
(141,449 posts)Tetrachloride
(9,599 posts)wherefair art thou ?
Johnny2X2X
(24,128 posts)He means everyone expected that but he dismissed their concerns. What the hell did he think they were going to do?
liberalla
(11,070 posts)tanyev
(49,183 posts)Obviously, thats how his administration functions much of the time, but anything outside the bubble cant be controlled that way.
Rob H.
(5,834 posts)Shades of "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center" and just as false.
wnylib
(25,823 posts)covid would become a pandemic and not go away as soon as the weather got warmer.
Skittles
(171,424 posts)this man is a DANGER TO THE WORLD
orangecrush
(30,095 posts)GiqueCee
(4,067 posts)... but apparently, Republicans don't. Well, actually, I don't think they give a shit; they just want to rule over the ashes of whatever's left when the Orange Anus is gone. Good luck with that, you evil assholes. I can pretty much guarantee that payback is gonna be a BITCH!
Skittles
(171,424 posts)the man is a multi-felon rapist seditionist mass murdering piece of utter SHIT
GiqueCee
(4,067 posts)... that they're past seeking endorsements, and more afraid of what he'll exhort his brain-dead minions in red hats to do as retribution for not showing sufficient obeisance. They may have suspected, but now they KNOW he's a raging psychopath capable of anything. Some of 'em must know that he ordered Epstein's murder, and that he's threatened just that to others he considered disloyal. He's a fucking monster who beat the living shit out of a little girl who bit his cock when he forced her to fellate him. There are NO limits to his vengeful savagery.
Cherokee100
(450 posts)It's the Epstein cover up. Krosnov, has to save his behind. Along with all of his pedophile buddy. No matter how many innocent people, have to die.
flashman13
(2,360 posts)Oh yeah. Now I remember.
Been there. Done that.
What are we not expecting now?
Coolgoober
(306 posts)Was, HOLY SHIT, This guy should be resigning after saying that. This is the most INCOMPETENT Administration ever. "We were shocked." Are you fucking kidding me??!!? The world is laughing at him.....us
Buddyzbuddy
(2,512 posts)They aren't fighting the way the Felon wants or planned on. If they're aren't careful, he's not going to play with them anymore and take all of his army men and toys and go home.
What a buffoon.
liberalla
(11,070 posts)and then just stay home dumbass!
Buddyzbuddy
(2,512 posts)As opposed to the alternatives.
liberalla
(11,070 posts)If only we could go back... she says wistfully
GiqueCee
(4,067 posts)... and hope that's all he does. Raining tactical nukes on 'em is what he's just dyin' to do. You can damn sure betcha his stubby little fingers ain't far from that button.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,512 posts)He never thinks of the consequences, the precedent he's setting.
At least Rumsfeld was smart enough to think and state "we don't know what we don't know".
lastlib
(28,138 posts)Maybe it was just PEDOnald and his circle of loyalists---any general worthy of the rank would've foreseen it.
liberalla
(11,070 posts)Just ask him -- he'll tell you.
0rganism
(25,607 posts)Maybe... just maybe, find someone in your cultivated staff of spineless yes-men who would have "expected that", and promote them to a position where you can hear from them from time to time.
Meh, there I go taking F47 at his word again. Assume he's lying. Obviously everyone expected it, especially anyone who's looked at a map of the region. They did it anyway, because they want to project strength and cause distractions. F47 wants his long-term military entanglement so he can claim whatever "wartime president" perks he can find. Headline shift, power grab, look strong, shout out to racists and religious fanatics, kill many children -- pure win from F47's viewpoint.
liberalla
(11,070 posts)0rganism
(25,607 posts)He may not be vigorous enough for raping children anymore, but he can still kill them, which doubtless gets his dick hard (along with the dicks of many others involved in this "excursion" ) .
BurnDoubt
(1,659 posts)So IM not shocked that he was shocked.
Somebody should surely lose their FCC License over this.
xuplate
(203 posts)blue blues
(44 posts)I would think this is how a war works?
just saying
70sEraVet
(5,453 posts)Here's a hint -- don't take the advice from the guys who are wearing the over-sized shoes!!!
doc03
(39,055 posts)RockRaven
(19,239 posts)subject matter experts who are telling you what you don't want to hear...
ffr
(23,386 posts)are the idiots who delivered him back into power. For them, I wish that the Karma be swift and have twice the sting it should.