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White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last week in the Persian Gulf. As a precaution, the Pentagon has moved an aircraft carrier and more naval firepower to the gulf region.CreditU.S. Navy, via Associated Press
By Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
At a meeting of President Trump’s top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, administration officials said.
The revisions were ordered by hard-liners led by John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser. It does not call for a land invasion of Iran, which would require vastly more troops, officials said.
The development reflects the influence of Mr. Bolton, one of the administration’s most virulent Iran hawks, whose push for confrontation with Tehran was ignored more than a decade ago by President George W. Bush.
It is highly uncertain whether Mr. Trump, who has sought to disentangle the United States from Afghanistan and Syria, ultimately would send so many American forces back to the Middle East.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/middleeast/us-military-plans-iran.html
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So come on Trump defenders. Explain to me how Trump isn't being Nutty Nety's puppet.
Explain to me why you want to spend American blood and treasure fighting the House of Saud's war.
I have yet to see an Iranian attack US soil in a terror attack since 9-11.
It isn't Iranian schools that are the ideological back bone of ISIS, and AQ.
Iran is not a threat to me, and it is a crying shame people who call themselves patriots, want to spend the blood of actual patriots fighting someone else's war.
Discuss..............
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last week in the Persian Gulf. As a precaution, the Pentagon has moved an aircraft carrier and more naval firepower to the gulf region.CreditU.S. Navy, via Associated Press
By Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
At a meeting of President Trump’s top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, administration officials said.
The revisions were ordered by hard-liners led by John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser. It does not call for a land invasion of Iran, which would require vastly more troops, officials said.
The development reflects the influence of Mr. Bolton, one of the administration’s most virulent Iran hawks, whose push for confrontation with Tehran was ignored more than a decade ago by President George W. Bush.
It is highly uncertain whether Mr. Trump, who has sought to disentangle the United States from Afghanistan and Syria, ultimately would send so many American forces back to the Middle East.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/middleeast/us-military-plans-iran.html
________________________________
So come on Trump defenders. Explain to me how Trump isn't being Nutty Nety's puppet.
Explain to me why you want to spend American blood and treasure fighting the House of Saud's war.
I have yet to see an Iranian attack US soil in a terror attack since 9-11.
It isn't Iranian schools that are the ideological back bone of ISIS, and AQ.
Iran is not a threat to me, and it is a crying shame people who call themselves patriots, want to spend the blood of actual patriots fighting someone else's war.
Discuss..............
