Some good points, but Iran has been telling us their intentions for a long time, and they have been getting closer to being able to carry them out. Does anyone think they'll call us ten minutes ahead of time, and say "We're about to drop a nuclear bomb on you, just so you know?" They have used proxies to kill. Islam has drowned the world in blood for 1400 years, and the Shias think that when they destroy enough, the "Mahdi" will appear and reign. Look up 9-11-1565, Malta; 9-11-1683, Vienna; 9-11-1697, Battle of Zenta. Oct 7 2023 was the 452nd anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which they lost. These are just a few. Their koran tells them to fight, to slay. They call us unbelievers. Allah was a pagan Arab idol.
Islam is not a religion. It is the cult of Mohammad; a totalitarian ideology. They have been terrorists since the 7th century, DM.
Christianity is not a religion. It is the cult of Jesus; a totalitarian ideology. Christians have been terrorists since the 1st century.
See how that works? If it's not YOUR religion, you get to call it a "cult". If it's not YOUR religion, you get to call the participants of that religion terrorists.
Christianity and Islam are both religions. You may not like that, but your calling Islam a cult doesn't change the fact that it's a religion.
Islam is the only so-called religion that officially preaches stuff like Sura 9:5 "Slay the infidels wherever you find them. Chop their necks..." We've seen it for 1400 years. What did their "prophet" ever prophecy? Tell me. But he robbed, raped, murdered, conquered by the sword.
have you actually read the Bible? Jewish religion is the bloodiest of them all. 75,000 Persians killed and they celebrate that every year with the holiday Purim. What kind of "god" were the Jews worshipping? One who is a jealous god, one to tells them to kill every man, woman, and child, and even the sheep and goats. There are scholars, even Jewish scholars who believe the Jews were not worshipping the one true god, they were worshipping a war god or a storm god. Humanity went off the rails with the Abrahamic religions. All 3 of them are violent.
Yes, there are sects within Islam that are violent. How many know about the Hindu holocaust, more than 20 million Hindus killed during the Turkic invasions. But Christianity is not free from blame either. How many Christians know that Charlemagne Christianized France with the sword? How many know how Norway was Christianized, that the Christians went from house to house, killing everyone in the household until the ones who were not dead yet agreed to be baptized?
There are violent people in all 3 of these religions. That violence is a stain upon humanity, but the adherents of each of those religions would say that it does not negate their religion.
One of my teachers used to remark, "Killing people in the name of religion!" and then just shake his head.
Iran decided to NOT develop a nuclear weapon because nuclear weapons kill indiscriminately, they kill mostly non-combatants, women and children. The leaders in Iran, especially the religious leader who we assassinated, felt that it would be unethical of them to develop a nuclear weapon. Can you imagine that? Leaders of a country deciding to not develop of weapon of mass destruction because it would go against their ethics! Hard to fathom, I know, because leaders of the US and Israel have no ethics, no integrity. They carpet bomb indiscriminately and brag about it, how now the US can rain down death and destruction on Iran. Why didn't Hegseth rip off his shirt and beat his chest when he said that?
Persia was conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century AD. In the 20th and 21st century, Islam has killed men women children by bombs, guns, machetes, indiscriminately. It's a death sentence to be a homosexual, to uncover one's hair in Iran if one is a woman, to leave islam, to criticize Mohammad-death sentences - and anyone can carry it out-no need for a court. It's been going on for 1400 years. If people did not notice it, that's because Islam produces almost nothing, and when the Ottomans leading Islam fell apart in WW 1, they had nothing to carry on their jihad until Westerners developed their oil so they got Petrodollars and took up the jihad again.
Seriously? You’re defending the guy that murdered 30,000 of his own people for protesting? You’re defending the guy that made it a literal death sentence for women to wear their hijab ‘wrong’? You’re defending the guy that thinks 9 year old little girls are adult women & can be sold to men as ‘brides’ to be raped and beaten indiscriminately? That’s just atrocities against his own people, doesn’t include ‘infidels’ or his ‘Death to America’ actions. This is the ‘ethical’ leader you’re defending?
You mean the guys who organized and supplied the attack on the music festival and villages in Israel on 10/7/23? The rapists, murderers and kidnappers? The guys who are indiscriminately firing drones at hotels across the Persian Gulf?
Here is a central question in my mind to all of the objection to what President Trump and Israel have done. What was the alternative? We have spent 47 years trying to settle the problem of Iran peacefully and what has it accomplished? Do you know the expression of being between the shit and the fart? This is where I believe President Trump found himself and decided that enough was enough. I don't dispute any of the atrocities pointed out by John Leake who is, in my opinion, a very well read and accomplished writer but I still ask, what was the alternative? 47 more years of useless detente while Iran continues to lie and develop an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons? I cannot help but draw a parallel to Neville Chamberlain and his negotiations with Hitler and his optimism that he had struck a deal with that devil. How did that work out? Just saying!!!
Lets be crystal clear. These radical Islamists have been killing our soldiers for over 47 years. They need to be eradicated, full stop. Also, you either trust of CiC or you don't. He has been talking about endless wars for many years. His actions to date are all about peace and decisive military actions, not "wars". So maybe stop all your shillings and reeeeing and let this play out.
Where have the "radical Islamists" been killing your soldiers for over 47 years? And why do you say that they "need to be eradicated"?
Where were your soldiers when you allege that they were killed? In someone else's country, against their protests? Against the will of the people of that country? Then they were invaders; occupiers. And they deserved to be killed.
Russian Prince Alexander Nevsky declared that "Those who come to us in peace will be welcome as a guest. But those who come to us sword in hand will die by the sword!"
The citizens of most countries would agree. So if you want your soldiers to be safe, keep them at home where they belong and don't send them out to attack and kill foreigners.
Even if you ignored the thousand of our soldiers "in other countries," you'd still have thr American civilians in Israel, OYR ALLY, that were killed. You STILL HAVE the Iranian threat against oyr President, you still have the imminent threat of a nuclear attack on American soil by their own mouths.
So what, you think we just sit back and wait for that to occur first?
I would like to see sources for any of that. To my knowledge, Iran has always been peaceable except when attacked - as at present. I assume no one will expect honourable, self-respecting people to be attacked - their leader murdered, over 150 little girls murdered - without fighting back.
I submit that American civilians in Palestine would be safe, if the Zionists who set up the "state" of "Israel" had not murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians in order to steal their land and property.
Thus the Americans to whom you refer are the guests of murderous robbers who are residing on land stolen by murder from its true owners. Unwise.
If Iranians have uttered threats against Mr Trump, it will have been only in retaliation for his acts of violence and murder against them. Americans murdered Ayatollah Khamenei and most of the Iranian leaders - and you are worried about some verbal threats?
Talk of a nuclear attack are nonsense, as the USA's own intelligence agencies have recently reported that Iran not only has no nuclear weapons, but is not even working to get them.
You need to get your topics of conversation in line. Radical Islam is what the topic is currently. Israel is whole other rabbit hole and yes, they need to be dealt with...
Radical? Staying on point? Brzezinski training Mujahadin? You really need to take a deep breath and absolutely do some more research. I dont have time for people who dont have the correct facts.
Trading With the Enemies Act. How many of John's readers know that Prescott Bush, patriarch of two presidents, had his bank taken over by the US when it was discovered he was serving as "Hitler's Banker?" In 1943, two years into the war for the US. Meaning the Bush family profited directly from the bullets and bombs used to kill American GI's.
Was given his banks back with the help of the Dulles Brothers, friends of Bushies.
Or that Dulles' CIA brought George HW Bush in as Ft Worth station head, curiously timed in 1963 when JFK made his fateful visit to Dallas a few miles away.
Or that GHWB was the UN Ambassador who made the official pivot from Nationalists in Taiwan to Communists in Peking? Or that GHWB was the first US Ambassador to CCP China?
Or that in death GHWB was given state funeral ceremony memorial status when he died, CCP China calling him "China's best friend ever in the White House?" After rewarding China following their brutal crackdown on protestors in the Tiananmen Square Massacre with Most Favored Nation status. Hollowing out the industrial capacity of the US.
Yes. Profiting from all sides of wars has been a long tradition of politicians.
Stalin was right when he offered the the capitalists would sell the rope that is used to hang them.
Review the Commander In-Chief Clause. Also, a president has 90 days to finish strike missions. Highly classified security missions, are not announced to Congress, for obvious reasons. Politically driven announcing to the world. That’s why we have a Gang of 8 to notify, representing both political parties, with highest security clearance. Just prior to 90 days, the president and military must go to Congress where it’s classified as a war or not, and funded if approved.
Listen to the account of Steven Charles Witkoff, negotiator for the USA with Iran. It is evident that Iran had in its possession enough Uranium to manufacture 11 bombs and that they had every intention of doing so.
Agreed and the ultimate goal was to own nuclear bombs for sovereignty against US/UK/Israeli/London Banker/Globalist imperialism they’ve been dealing with since we ousted Mosadeggeh in 1953. See Ukraine vs Russian War for a further example and details.
How about listing all the atrocities Islam has perpetrated all over the world in its interest of extending its caliphate? As has done historically. How they fight endlessly amongst themselves, how they massacre christians and jews... they didn't have the excuse of the americans for that.
In a 2004 interview, academic Mahomood Mamdani (the father of New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani) explained how US actions nurtured the terrorism that plagues the world today.
Terrorism, he said, was not a result of Islamic ideology, but concrete actions taken by the US national security state to work with and develop radical forces around the world that would do their bidding.
An awesome job of listing points that most are ignorant of. It's worth adding that even if it were true that the War Powers Act purported to give the executive the authority to declare wars on his own, Congress does not have the authority to change the Constitution through legislation. Any amendment to transfer war-declaration powers to the executive would require a minimum 2/3 vote in both the House and Senate, and then ratification by a minimum of 3/4 of the States.
There are so many things here that you are missing it’s hard to believe a rational person would think that you support Democrats and their quest to remove PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OFFICE !
This academic discussion is appropriate and necessary. However, all the words printed here and across the US mean little or nothing to the US military man or woman at the tip of the spear. It is their lives on the line. It is their blood possibly being spilt.
They have a job to do. Like it or not. It's what we trained them for. It's what they took an oath to uphold. That job is to defend each other, their unit and their mission. By extension you and this country.
Denigrating their commander in chief and those passing down their orders does not help anyone but the opposition.
I'm 80 years old and was in Vietnam. At the end of that war I was part of the military airlift to take as many mother's and babies out of Saigon as possible before the fall. I assure you, politics didn't enter our heads. Keeping those in our charge safe and completing the mission was our goal. That was 1975. In 1969 II was a Staff Sergeant dressed in my Class A's and ready to be home from the war. I landed at SF International Airport in November of 69. I expected something other than what I got. You know the rest.
Remember, words have effects.
Think of the one or two striper out there who hears what you say. Does it make his day any easier?
While I am aware of most of your examples of the truly evil acts in the past I disagree with the premise that paints the present situation as a current manifestation of the same. The stated goals of this conflict are limited, discreet and well defined. Iran has been waging war on the West for decades. Their leaderships whole reason for existence was to do so. Religious extremism developing ICBM capabilities, nuclear warheads and slaughtering tens of thousands of its own repressed people have posed a real and at some point an irreversible threat. At what point do we allow this leadership with its decades of clear agenda to become a TRULY IMMINENT threat? I think trepidation, angst over outcome and human cost and an eye toward constitutional issues are valid issues. Balancing that are complex real world imperfect choices of strategic, operational and tactical natures....as always.
John! My man! I was am just about to touch on this topic. What’s occurring now is that people are following the narrative of trump but not seeing what’s occurring and that’s what I’ll be touching on shortly.
Mr. Leake has lost the plot if he refuses to engage with the threat that Iran poses to the US. I'm a far, far cry from MAGA, but the regime that has chanted "Death to America" for a millennium becomes an existential threat to us if they become a nuclear power. And destroying them is a nice blow to China to boot. I fully support taking out their ability to wage war on us and Israel - and whoever takes power next can hardly be worse than the despot that was just assassinated. And it's nice knowing he will have a target on his back as well. As a woman, I would like to see Iranian women have at least a fraction of the freedoms I enjoy in America; much of the cheering you have seen is genuine, and deserved.
"The context of the War Powers Resolution was President Nixon’s ongoing war in Vietnam and US Air Force’s Operation Freedom Deal of bombing Cambodia. This was ten years after the CIA and its mafia cronies assassinated President Kennedy, thereby placing this nation under the de facto rule of the national security state, under which it has existed ever since."
Some good points, but Iran has been telling us their intentions for a long time, and they have been getting closer to being able to carry them out. Does anyone think they'll call us ten minutes ahead of time, and say "We're about to drop a nuclear bomb on you, just so you know?" They have used proxies to kill. Islam has drowned the world in blood for 1400 years, and the Shias think that when they destroy enough, the "Mahdi" will appear and reign. Look up 9-11-1565, Malta; 9-11-1683, Vienna; 9-11-1697, Battle of Zenta. Oct 7 2023 was the 452nd anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which they lost. These are just a few. Their koran tells them to fight, to slay. They call us unbelievers. Allah was a pagan Arab idol.
Islam is not a religion. It is the cult of Mohammad; a totalitarian ideology. They have been terrorists since the 7th century, DM.
oh, and your last paragraph could read like this:
Christianity is not a religion. It is the cult of Jesus; a totalitarian ideology. Christians have been terrorists since the 1st century.
See how that works? If it's not YOUR religion, you get to call it a "cult". If it's not YOUR religion, you get to call the participants of that religion terrorists.
Christianity and Islam are both religions. You may not like that, but your calling Islam a cult doesn't change the fact that it's a religion.
Islam is the only so-called religion that officially preaches stuff like Sura 9:5 "Slay the infidels wherever you find them. Chop their necks..." We've seen it for 1400 years. What did their "prophet" ever prophecy? Tell me. But he robbed, raped, murdered, conquered by the sword.
have you actually read the Bible? Jewish religion is the bloodiest of them all. 75,000 Persians killed and they celebrate that every year with the holiday Purim. What kind of "god" were the Jews worshipping? One who is a jealous god, one to tells them to kill every man, woman, and child, and even the sheep and goats. There are scholars, even Jewish scholars who believe the Jews were not worshipping the one true god, they were worshipping a war god or a storm god. Humanity went off the rails with the Abrahamic religions. All 3 of them are violent.
Yes, there are sects within Islam that are violent. How many know about the Hindu holocaust, more than 20 million Hindus killed during the Turkic invasions. But Christianity is not free from blame either. How many Christians know that Charlemagne Christianized France with the sword? How many know how Norway was Christianized, that the Christians went from house to house, killing everyone in the household until the ones who were not dead yet agreed to be baptized?
There are violent people in all 3 of these religions. That violence is a stain upon humanity, but the adherents of each of those religions would say that it does not negate their religion.
One of my teachers used to remark, "Killing people in the name of religion!" and then just shake his head.
If the Christianity is not a religion, why this:
https://x.com/orthodox_33ad/status/2028976990007476265
all around Jerusalem, with some history about it:
https://tuckercarlson.com/live-show-march-4-2026
not even touching the existence of one of the oldest books on this planet.
Iran decided to NOT develop a nuclear weapon because nuclear weapons kill indiscriminately, they kill mostly non-combatants, women and children. The leaders in Iran, especially the religious leader who we assassinated, felt that it would be unethical of them to develop a nuclear weapon. Can you imagine that? Leaders of a country deciding to not develop of weapon of mass destruction because it would go against their ethics! Hard to fathom, I know, because leaders of the US and Israel have no ethics, no integrity. They carpet bomb indiscriminately and brag about it, how now the US can rain down death and destruction on Iran. Why didn't Hegseth rip off his shirt and beat his chest when he said that?
Persia was conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century AD. In the 20th and 21st century, Islam has killed men women children by bombs, guns, machetes, indiscriminately. It's a death sentence to be a homosexual, to uncover one's hair in Iran if one is a woman, to leave islam, to criticize Mohammad-death sentences - and anyone can carry it out-no need for a court. It's been going on for 1400 years. If people did not notice it, that's because Islam produces almost nothing, and when the Ottomans leading Islam fell apart in WW 1, they had nothing to carry on their jihad until Westerners developed their oil so they got Petrodollars and took up the jihad again.
Seriously? You’re defending the guy that murdered 30,000 of his own people for protesting? You’re defending the guy that made it a literal death sentence for women to wear their hijab ‘wrong’? You’re defending the guy that thinks 9 year old little girls are adult women & can be sold to men as ‘brides’ to be raped and beaten indiscriminately? That’s just atrocities against his own people, doesn’t include ‘infidels’ or his ‘Death to America’ actions. This is the ‘ethical’ leader you’re defending?
You mean the guys who organized and supplied the attack on the music festival and villages in Israel on 10/7/23? The rapists, murderers and kidnappers? The guys who are indiscriminately firing drones at hotels across the Persian Gulf?
great post.
I will second that one.
Here is a central question in my mind to all of the objection to what President Trump and Israel have done. What was the alternative? We have spent 47 years trying to settle the problem of Iran peacefully and what has it accomplished? Do you know the expression of being between the shit and the fart? This is where I believe President Trump found himself and decided that enough was enough. I don't dispute any of the atrocities pointed out by John Leake who is, in my opinion, a very well read and accomplished writer but I still ask, what was the alternative? 47 more years of useless detente while Iran continues to lie and develop an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons? I cannot help but draw a parallel to Neville Chamberlain and his negotiations with Hitler and his optimism that he had struck a deal with that devil. How did that work out? Just saying!!!
oh please, always the Hitler analogy. They used that for Saddam, how did that work out?
Lets be crystal clear. These radical Islamists have been killing our soldiers for over 47 years. They need to be eradicated, full stop. Also, you either trust of CiC or you don't. He has been talking about endless wars for many years. His actions to date are all about peace and decisive military actions, not "wars". So maybe stop all your shillings and reeeeing and let this play out.
Fwiw the War Powers Act has never been held to be Constitutional. It is not The Law. It is a sentiment.
Kind of like how the Nuremberg Code has never been officially adopted. It's a sentiment.
All these nice notions of restraint on authority that don't amount to more than sentiments. Just sayin'.
Where have the "radical Islamists" been killing your soldiers for over 47 years? And why do you say that they "need to be eradicated"?
Where were your soldiers when you allege that they were killed? In someone else's country, against their protests? Against the will of the people of that country? Then they were invaders; occupiers. And they deserved to be killed.
Russian Prince Alexander Nevsky declared that "Those who come to us in peace will be welcome as a guest. But those who come to us sword in hand will die by the sword!"
The citizens of most countries would agree. So if you want your soldiers to be safe, keep them at home where they belong and don't send them out to attack and kill foreigners.
Tommy, that was so incredible and simple. You must have thought long and hard?
It certainly is simple and obvious. So it's a pity it is being ignored.
You truly are naive about radical Islam... bet you never served your country either.
Yours must have been a gross disservice.
Even if you ignored the thousand of our soldiers "in other countries," you'd still have thr American civilians in Israel, OYR ALLY, that were killed. You STILL HAVE the Iranian threat against oyr President, you still have the imminent threat of a nuclear attack on American soil by their own mouths.
So what, you think we just sit back and wait for that to occur first?
I would like to see sources for any of that. To my knowledge, Iran has always been peaceable except when attacked - as at present. I assume no one will expect honourable, self-respecting people to be attacked - their leader murdered, over 150 little girls murdered - without fighting back.
I submit that American civilians in Palestine would be safe, if the Zionists who set up the "state" of "Israel" had not murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians in order to steal their land and property.
Thus the Americans to whom you refer are the guests of murderous robbers who are residing on land stolen by murder from its true owners. Unwise.
If Iranians have uttered threats against Mr Trump, it will have been only in retaliation for his acts of violence and murder against them. Americans murdered Ayatollah Khamenei and most of the Iranian leaders - and you are worried about some verbal threats?
Talk of a nuclear attack are nonsense, as the USA's own intelligence agencies have recently reported that Iran not only has no nuclear weapons, but is not even working to get them.
What reputable source says all those schoolgirls were killed? I thought that was unproven propaganda. Thank you.
"Let this play out." Did you say "Let this play out"?
Do you mean "Let's get the people who did 9/11' -- for once and for all"?
You need to get your topics of conversation in line. Radical Islam is what the topic is currently. Israel is whole other rabbit hole and yes, they need to be dealt with...
Radical schmadical.
Brzezinski trained the Mujahadin, did he not?
and what do you mean by my topics of conversation?
Radical? Staying on point? Brzezinski training Mujahadin? You really need to take a deep breath and absolutely do some more research. I dont have time for people who dont have the correct facts.
No point staying "on point" if it's the wrong point.
I guess you are comfortable with the 19-hijacker thing.
Israel - the same culprits - did 9/11.
Trading With the Enemies Act. How many of John's readers know that Prescott Bush, patriarch of two presidents, had his bank taken over by the US when it was discovered he was serving as "Hitler's Banker?" In 1943, two years into the war for the US. Meaning the Bush family profited directly from the bullets and bombs used to kill American GI's.
Was given his banks back with the help of the Dulles Brothers, friends of Bushies.
Or that Dulles' CIA brought George HW Bush in as Ft Worth station head, curiously timed in 1963 when JFK made his fateful visit to Dallas a few miles away.
Or that GHWB was the UN Ambassador who made the official pivot from Nationalists in Taiwan to Communists in Peking? Or that GHWB was the first US Ambassador to CCP China?
Or that in death GHWB was given state funeral ceremony memorial status when he died, CCP China calling him "China's best friend ever in the White House?" After rewarding China following their brutal crackdown on protestors in the Tiananmen Square Massacre with Most Favored Nation status. Hollowing out the industrial capacity of the US.
Yes. Profiting from all sides of wars has been a long tradition of politicians.
Stalin was right when he offered the the capitalists would sell the rope that is used to hang them.
Review the Commander In-Chief Clause. Also, a president has 90 days to finish strike missions. Highly classified security missions, are not announced to Congress, for obvious reasons. Politically driven announcing to the world. That’s why we have a Gang of 8 to notify, representing both political parties, with highest security clearance. Just prior to 90 days, the president and military must go to Congress where it’s classified as a war or not, and funded if approved.
Listen to the account of Steven Charles Witkoff, negotiator for the USA with Iran. It is evident that Iran had in its possession enough Uranium to manufacture 11 bombs and that they had every intention of doing so.
Agreed and the ultimate goal was to own nuclear bombs for sovereignty against US/UK/Israeli/London Banker/Globalist imperialism they’ve been dealing with since we ousted Mosadeggeh in 1953. See Ukraine vs Russian War for a further example and details.
How about listing all the atrocities Islam has perpetrated all over the world in its interest of extending its caliphate? As has done historically. How they fight endlessly amongst themselves, how they massacre christians and jews... they didn't have the excuse of the americans for that.
You shut up, Victoria! Criticism of Islam has no place here! This board is about the evil the US perpetrates, and don't forget "Joos".
In a 2004 interview, academic Mahomood Mamdani (the father of New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani) explained how US actions nurtured the terrorism that plagues the world today.
Terrorism, he said, was not a result of Islamic ideology, but concrete actions taken by the US national security state to work with and develop radical forces around the world that would do their bidding.
https://t.me/mintpress_news/11970
The largest groups of terrorists in the world are the Knesset and its allies in Washington DC
Indeed. This a position Hollywood, Marxists and the Islamists spew constantly.
An awesome job of listing points that most are ignorant of. It's worth adding that even if it were true that the War Powers Act purported to give the executive the authority to declare wars on his own, Congress does not have the authority to change the Constitution through legislation. Any amendment to transfer war-declaration powers to the executive would require a minimum 2/3 vote in both the House and Senate, and then ratification by a minimum of 3/4 of the States.
There are so many things here that you are missing it’s hard to believe a rational person would think that you support Democrats and their quest to remove PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OFFICE !
This academic discussion is appropriate and necessary. However, all the words printed here and across the US mean little or nothing to the US military man or woman at the tip of the spear. It is their lives on the line. It is their blood possibly being spilt.
They have a job to do. Like it or not. It's what we trained them for. It's what they took an oath to uphold. That job is to defend each other, their unit and their mission. By extension you and this country.
Denigrating their commander in chief and those passing down their orders does not help anyone but the opposition.
I'm 80 years old and was in Vietnam. At the end of that war I was part of the military airlift to take as many mother's and babies out of Saigon as possible before the fall. I assure you, politics didn't enter our heads. Keeping those in our charge safe and completing the mission was our goal. That was 1975. In 1969 II was a Staff Sergeant dressed in my Class A's and ready to be home from the war. I landed at SF International Airport in November of 69. I expected something other than what I got. You know the rest.
Remember, words have effects.
Think of the one or two striper out there who hears what you say. Does it make his day any easier?
That's all I have to say.
Thanks
While I am aware of most of your examples of the truly evil acts in the past I disagree with the premise that paints the present situation as a current manifestation of the same. The stated goals of this conflict are limited, discreet and well defined. Iran has been waging war on the West for decades. Their leaderships whole reason for existence was to do so. Religious extremism developing ICBM capabilities, nuclear warheads and slaughtering tens of thousands of its own repressed people have posed a real and at some point an irreversible threat. At what point do we allow this leadership with its decades of clear agenda to become a TRULY IMMINENT threat? I think trepidation, angst over outcome and human cost and an eye toward constitutional issues are valid issues. Balancing that are complex real world imperfect choices of strategic, operational and tactical natures....as always.
John! My man! I was am just about to touch on this topic. What’s occurring now is that people are following the narrative of trump but not seeing what’s occurring and that’s what I’ll be touching on shortly.
To show how horrible war is, I recently wrote on how those who do serve regret serving. I discuss that here: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-saying-thank-you-for-your-service
But you’re spot on: whether satan is real or not, what we’re experiencing is a satanic reality, also I discuss that in a podcast here: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/are-we-under-satanic-attack
Great work! You and I are definitely aligned here. Great callout on Israel as well!
Greetings Franklin, yes, it does appear that old diabolos is in charge. Most people fail to understand this until it's too late
They have attacked us over and over since 1979.
Mr. Leake has lost the plot if he refuses to engage with the threat that Iran poses to the US. I'm a far, far cry from MAGA, but the regime that has chanted "Death to America" for a millennium becomes an existential threat to us if they become a nuclear power. And destroying them is a nice blow to China to boot. I fully support taking out their ability to wage war on us and Israel - and whoever takes power next can hardly be worse than the despot that was just assassinated. And it's nice knowing he will have a target on his back as well. As a woman, I would like to see Iranian women have at least a fraction of the freedoms I enjoy in America; much of the cheering you have seen is genuine, and deserved.
Then let them fight for it.
You have just expressed the rational. You're sane.
Do the anti Trump commenters know the Islamic history of slaughter, enslavement, tyranny?
Are those bots, AI, or part of the delusional minority mouth farters under a virtuous pysop cloud?
HIStory records it well. Not the school history books which were written to control and deceive.
Worth repeating:
"The context of the War Powers Resolution was President Nixon’s ongoing war in Vietnam and US Air Force’s Operation Freedom Deal of bombing Cambodia. This was ten years after the CIA and its mafia cronies assassinated President Kennedy, thereby placing this nation under the de facto rule of the national security state, under which it has existed ever since."