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Miles Archer

(23,128 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 10:59 PM Monday

"We oblitted them. That doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that."

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
COLLINS: If you obliterated their nuclear sites last summer, then how can you argue it was an imminent threat now?

TRUMP: Oh, we hit them so hard. We oblitted them-- obliterated them. But that doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that.

COLLINS: If you obliterated their nuclear sites last summer, then how can you argue it was an imminent threat now?

TRUMP: Oh, we hit them so hard. We oblitted them-- obliterated them. But that doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-23T14:08:20.791Z
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"We oblitted them. That doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that." (Original Post) Miles Archer Monday OP
"Oblitted"??? 3catwoman3 Monday #1
How many times can a country be "oblitted "? He tried to sell us that one a couple of months ago Deuxcents Monday #2
At first he was obliterating the nuclear program, until he wasn't. Beartracks Monday #4
"Dig down and go get it" Beartracks Monday #3
Nice work on that obllition, Chump. Go get yourself a cofeve Hassler Tuesday #5
So he's not even blaming Iran. He's blaming himself for not oblitting them enough. unblock Tuesday #6
He has verbal word salad sakabatou Tuesday #7

Deuxcents

(26,801 posts)
2. How many times can a country be "oblitted "? He tried to sell us that one a couple of months ago
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:39 PM
Monday

And now we did it again?

Beartracks

(14,575 posts)
3. "Dig down and go get it"
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:41 PM
Monday

So, their entire national nuclear research program was just... buried under some rubble and dirt at some place or other?

I don't think that's how total oblittion works. Or how one would recover a program from such oblittion.

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