Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
Trump has always shown us he doesn’t need intelligence.
The best hint that Iran has no nukes is that the US is attacking them. If they had nukes they would keep away.
Not only is trump ignoring this, but lots and lots of shitlibs on this site are also.
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What is that?
That’s Secretary of State Colin Powell testifying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.
That’s Secretary of State Colin Powell
testifyinglying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.I had to.
The Bush administration getting away with all their criminal shit paved the way for Trump.
Tbf I doubt it was new in politics
In fairness to Colin Powell, my understanding was he didn’t know it was a lie/ trumped up evidence at the time, and was pretty bitter about it in later years.
It’s not Congress. It’s the UN. And he was doing a really stupid publicity stunt about how that vial could hold anthrax to kill them all. And then went on about WMDs in Iraq.
I think he’s possibly talking at the UN or some security council as they plaque in front of him says “United States”, at a guess that wouldn’t be necessary in front of Congress. I might be wrong though, I’m not from the US.
“Better not drop that cake”
yeeeah… shrug, Trump ignores them all. And why shouldn’t he? They didn’t prevent him from happening, what’s the point of the CIA, NSA etc when they either knew about him & putin, and let hit happen, or, they didn’t know, even though it’s been obvious since the 80s?
Nice job Intel community, you shot us all in the face.
him & putin
obvious since the 80s
I can see a major problem with that timeline, but I suppose wild conspiracy theories don’t have to make sense
So we oppose US intelligence agencies overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries but not their own?
if your own intelligence organs don’t warn your gov that there’s a foreign power influencing the election, yeah, I think that group isn’t doing their fucking job.
The point is to be additional arms of the government that he can manipulate and abuse to his own ends.
The situation could be more nuanced. Putin lost in Syria and Europe is split from Russia and massively spending on weapons. That’s already a huge win, maybe big enough to accept a bleeding face.
tell that to the tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians murdered.
When was that ever a concern for the elite in power?
They’re not reading my comments on lemmy.
Why do you give two flying fucks at a rolling donut what they think?
I fail to see your point regardless.
He’s an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality
He’s spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it
He’s a child, and what’s worse, he has dementia.
He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness
Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.
“But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We’ll take the dementia-addled toddler instead”
Don’t forget that under the orange paint, he’s white
Didn’t matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.
The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won’t say “I’m a sexist pig” in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like “She didn’t explain her policies enough” or “She wasnt authentic enough” instead.
Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.
One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.
The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.
Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.
Hillary Clinton was the most qualified Presidential candidate you’ve had since Eisenhower.
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The idea that the only reason she lost is because of being a woman is incredibly stupid.
I don’t agree. Take the same political stances and ethos, but have it come from Keith Harris (or even Kailash or Kenan Harris) instead, and he is seen as decisive and likeable.
I don’t flatly disagree, but I think to call Hillary or Kamala as “electable” as Obama is a hard sell. He was a better public speaker than any president in my lifetime and he played things off well. Kamala was certainly more likable than Hillary, but she didn’t have as much sauce as the sauce king at least before he was usurped by the sauce god Mamdani.
Why do women win Governor elections, then?
People can accept woman as the little boss, but not the big boss. Not yet anyway.
Because not every state is full of misogyny
That is not so clear-cut https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/01/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor/ I’d have to go see if there is any correlation between these and Kamala/Hillary’s results, but I’m not expecting it to be strong.
(Oh, and of course, I didn’t check if any of these elections were woman vs woman, where it would not serve as an indicator of misogyny to elect a woman)
My point is that even women can win elections in deep red states, particularly if they follow “conservative” values close enough. But then again president has the whole commander-in-chief aura…ok…
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Yeah? Well my pop tart fell on the floor this morning. I think I’ll sit out 2028.
He is. She is a Russian asset.
Who’s “she” here? I’ll assume in good faith that this is a typo
… Tulsi Gabbard
The truth doesn’t really matter. Israel will get their war, and the US will lumber into it behind them.
What’s crazy to me is apparently the US has become so polarized, so used to division that pointing out Israel is acting like bloodthirsty psychos is somehow supporting Iran, or Hamas before that. It’s like their whole culture has evaporated any nuance at all. Only diametrically opposed good and evil battling forever. Professional wrestling stories with Heels and Faces divided by clear black lines.
It is the only thing conservatives/fascists have left.
And shitlibs.
Liberals aren’t even in charge of anything at the moment but you really out here trying to get this “shitlib” thing you made up to stick.
Yikes
tHiNg yOu mAdE uP
God vs Satan doesn’t leave room for nuance.
The more he dismiss America’s intelligence agencies, the more i believe them.
Yep exactly. If he says something I assume the opposite is true. I’m not saying this for comedy value, I genuinely do
Okay so we believe Tulsi Gabbard now?
Yes she works for Russia and they’re friends with Iran.
So we can’t really trust either.
First, weaken the commercial aviation in your country. Second, start calling everything terrorism. Third, start yet another war in the middle east.
Your guy is desperately looking for another 911.
Tronald would likely abuse the fuck Out of it to do more “emergency measures”. We’ve seen this in Germany in the 30s with the Ermächtigungsgesetz after the Reichstag burned.
I’m expecting a false-flag attack here soon to give him an excuse to officially pull the US into it
Or maybe a real attack from the guillotine squad. It’d amount to the same thing.
*9/11
Quick, dust off the “weapons of mass destruction” propaganda.
Came here to say the exact same thing.
It doesn’t matter if it is true or not (not just this topic) but if you repeat the lie enough and gaslight the public it becomes true, and if it doesn’t so what, what are you going to do about it.
NOTHING that is what they are counting on.
Keep up the protests, the No Kings protest was huge even if MSM is downplaying it.
why tf would a fascist dictator give a rat’s ass about “reasons” to plunge multiple countries into war? he wants war, that’s what’s going to happen
Tbh this is not specific to trump. Gulf wars happened the same way.
the difference is bush 1 & 2 made an effort to convince everyone their bullshit wars were justified. diaper fascist is literally saying “don’t care”
the thing that’ll shock me is if we’re NOT at war within a month
Not really it was all theatrical in un but everybody knew and called them out. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/French_address_on_Iraq_at_the_UN_Security_Council
not sure what you’re trying to argue. that maybe we won’t go to war?
i didn’t say no one called them out, just that they made an effort to justify the wars.
the wars still happened, didn’t they. despite being “called out”
people have been “calling out” trump for decades. we still have trump. people are “calling out” this war too.
My point is this is not specific to trump. I don’t like him but this is typical American military complex which we have seen in the past. History repeats itself.
Destabilizing Iran has been a major part of the US vision to reshape the middle east in it’s own favor, in order to retain hegemonic control and move the theater to China
It’s also been Israel’s goal since the 1990s, and Israel is an fundamental to US foreign policy in the region
We have done this dance before last time it cost me my 20s my sanity and most importantly a huge amount for friends I loved like brothers who died before and are still killing then selfs…
So we are gonna do the Iraq WMD lie again huh?
This season’s twist is that the Intelligence community is claiming that there is no weapons. Unless the Intelligence community is doing reverse psychological on us.
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The CIA reported no wmds before the invasion of Iraq too
People still believe Iraq had WMDs to this day.
I still have people telling me it wasn’t Bush’s fault, the intelligence was bad
Well, they’re half right, but not in the sense they mean…
Of course there are ZERO valid reasons to go to war in the ME.
That’s fine. Iraq didn’t have WMDs either. They just need a lie to sell it to the public.
What’s the context for this photo?
Colin Powell lies to congress about “facts” and “evidence” of WMDs in Iraq that led to a 20 year war
The UN. This picture was when he lied to the UN about WMDs in Iraq.
My bad, he lied so much it’s hard to keep it straight
