White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War

By artappraiser on Tue, 05/14/2019 - 12:18am |

Not a bad assumption. Also, according to US intel, Iran is reeling from sanctions and rising internal pressures. 120K is for occupation. Trump has shown no willingness to commit to anything like that. https://t.co/F0foDqpPUJ
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) May 14, 2019

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/middleeast/us-military-plans-iran.html

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Much more evidence of the "like the North Korea head fake" thing on the May 5 through 9 news thread here.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/14/2019 - 12:24am

This is getting increasingly ridiculous https://t.co/je3WYnY8JE
— Dina Esfandiary (@DEsfandiary) May 14, 2019

wrote about a frustrated Europe’s I told you so moment for Trump admin on Iran. Little respect now for US alleging new threats https://t.co/qUTsY0WnwM
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 15, 2019

Privately, sev’l Euro offls described Bolton &Pompeo dragging unsuspecting Trump up escalatory steps on course to war before T realizes it https://t.co/ltoGOPmbHi
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 15, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 1:43pm

I ran the Journal's Baghdad bureau for four years when mortars, car bombs & stray bullets targeted the Green Zone & US embassy several times a day. State Dept. didn't evacuate staff.#Iraq #Iran
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) May 15, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 2:25pm

“he just barges in, pours lighter fluid all over the map, &flicks a lit match on top” screaming “Burn, m*f*s, burn!” https://t.co/1XPpOBcKYB
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 16, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 2:51pm

I found this video of Bolton screaming "Burn them all" while burning the map.

by ocean-kat on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 3:57pm

White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War

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