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Trump: US locked and loaded for response to attack on Saudis
apnews.com ^ | September 16, 2019 | JON GAMBRELL and ZEKE MILLER

Posted on 09/15/2019 6:34:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production threatened Sunday to fuel a regional crisis, as the U.S. released new evidence to back up its allegation that Iran was responsible for the assault amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. had reason to believe it knew who was behind the attack — his secretary of state had blamed Iran the previous day — and assured his Twitter followers that “we are ... locked and loaded” depending on verification and were waiting to hear from the Saudis as to who they believe was behind the attack and “under what terms we would proceed!”

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To: Berlin_Freeper

Iran WANTS us to attack them.

I propose that we avoid doing stuff that desperate Mullahs want us to do.


61 posted on 09/15/2019 8:06:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
You know, the Green New Deal would fix all of this.

(Ducking)

And do I REALLY need a /sarc???

62 posted on 09/15/2019 8:08:16 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: NorseViking

63 posted on 09/15/2019 8:09:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Alberta's Child

So, Thomas Jefferson was a Globalist? The USMC should be disbanded? From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli we will fight our countries battles in the air on land and sea...
What you desire will never happen. Isolationism with the exception of direct threat to our homeland has not been the position of the USA since its Thomas Jefferson the Globalist.
Alberta’s Child, as the saying goes, Some People Just Need Killing. The Iranian Regime falls into that Category.


64 posted on 09/15/2019 8:10:30 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (Lurking since the late 90's. Recently retired. No tagline yet.)
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To: NorseViking

65 posted on 09/15/2019 8:10:43 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

66 posted on 09/15/2019 8:11:46 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Yep, first Nayirah perjury and then WMD hoax ‘all the intelligence community agreed on’.
We are allegedly living in an informed society but it still works and nobody held accountable.


67 posted on 09/15/2019 8:14:17 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I see this mostly as an attempt to get President Trump involved in war during the 2020 election year.

That’s the only way he might would lose the election (or by Dem’s voting fraud too, of course).


68 posted on 09/15/2019 8:15:36 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: ocrp1982

“” “” Alberta’s Child, as the saying goes, Some People Just Need Killing. The Iranian Regime falls into that Category.”” “”

Yep, Iraqis deserved it first because of the babies thrown out of incubators and then because of the WMD not to be found.


69 posted on 09/15/2019 8:17:07 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Trump Girl Kit Cat
And for whatever reason ...

The reason is the dispute between Netanyahu and one of his coalition partners over military service for orthodox Jews, from which they have been exempt.

70 posted on 09/15/2019 8:17:10 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Cedar

“” “” I see this mostly as an attempt to get President Trump involved in war during the 2020 election year.

That’s the only way he might would lose the election (or by Dem’s voting fraud too, of course).”” “”

Of course it is. Recent Bolton spectacle is part of it.
Trump is surrounded by particularly criminal vicious snakes.


71 posted on 09/15/2019 8:18:56 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: gaijin

72 posted on 09/15/2019 8:22:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: nwrep

In fact Liberman has a point on this. Why Orhhodox should have all the benefits at taxpayers’ expense and a draft exempt? For what exact reason they are above and looking down on everyone else?


73 posted on 09/15/2019 8:23:00 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Berlin_Freeper
President Donald Trump said ... “we are ... locked and loaded”...


74 posted on 09/15/2019 8:25:14 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: NorseViking

NV, irrelevant to this discussion. W’s mistake in going into Iraq, a country that had absolutely nothing at all to do with 9/11 has no bearing whatsoever on Iran.


75 posted on 09/15/2019 8:29:28 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (Lurking since the late 90's. Recently retired. No tagline yet.)
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To: ocrp1982
Jefferson sent an expeditionary force to invade the Barbary States to protect U.S. shipping on the open seas. He didn’t send them there to protect some Islamic royal family in a Third World dump.
76 posted on 09/15/2019 8:31:35 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: gaijin

Meh, we’re fighting SEVEN wars, why not make it EIGHT..?

Not like we’re $23 trillion in debt, or anything.

And still getting invaded EVERY NIGHT.

Right..?


77 posted on 09/15/2019 8:32:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

You might be right. But if Iran wants the U.S. to attack them, then why deny any involvement in this drone/missile/whatever attack?


78 posted on 09/15/2019 8:32:45 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Unless Iran has cruise missiles that can fire single cannon rounds into oil tanks, I strongly doubt the damage portrayed in today’s photos came from cruise missiles. Can’t see much regarding where the other hits came from. I think most of the smoke from the southeast was the production field flaring off oil when the processing suddenly stopped.


79 posted on 09/15/2019 8:32:59 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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To: ocrp1982

While we do agree that the situations are different in nature the common denominator is how public goaded into support of military action.


80 posted on 09/15/2019 8:33:24 PM PDT by NorseViking
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