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Iran Did Do It..............says Trump

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Drones innit.

    NO: Drones don't carry cannon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Of course. Are you Iranian? Do you live in Tehran?

    No, but I've know the odd Iranian. I have no desire to see innocent people killed over nothing. Why do you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


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    I do. I don’t see anyone in the region with a motive for it, other than Iran.

    Apart from Saudi Arabia, Israel and the USA itself - but apart from those three, no one would have a motive except Iran.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Would you prefer the world's leader to be the Us or China?

    A world of holding hands, singing together and everyone being nice to each other isn't realistic. It's not in human nature. There has to be a leader like in all of life's situations .

    China.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    No, but I've know the odd Iranian. I have no desire to see innocent people killed over nothing. Why do you?

    If the Iranians are disrupting the world's oil trade in the straight of Hormuz then the problem needs to be dealt with. For the greater good.

    Nobody is calling for the killing of innocent civilians


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    If the Iranians are disrupting the world's oil trade in the straight of Hormuz then the problem needs to be dealt with. For the greater good.

    Nobody is calling for the killing of innocent civilians

    What if its not iran


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    _blaaz wrote: »
    What if its not iran

    What if it is


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    If the Iranians are disrupting the world's oil trade in the straight of Hormuz then the problem needs to be dealt with. For the greater good.

    Nobody is calling for the killing of innocent civilians

    Yeh.

    1) they aren’t. It’s a pretty crap false flag.
    2) any war will cripple oil trade in the strait of Hormuz.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    What if it is

    Then sanction them via the UN.....running in all guns blazing like iraq is lunacy


    Knowing yanks and the brits....they'll **** up.so badly and cause a repeat of isis type movement in 8 to 10 years time.....if you dont learn from.history,itll repeat itself

    I doubt russia will run to the worlds rescue again


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Yeh.

    1) they aren’t. It’s a pretty crap false flag.
    2) any war will cripple oil trade in the strait of Hormuz.

    1) do you have intelligence that says different or was it on a YouTube video?
    2) in the short term possibly. But again for the greater good


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    1) do you have intelligence that says different or was it on a YouTube video?
    2) in the short term possibly. But again for the greater good

    1) the crap YouTube video was in fact from the US. I’m not believing crap YouTube videos. You are.
    2) it would be fairly long term. Iran isn’t easily invaded and as long as it continues to fight it can destabilise shipping.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    1) the crap YouTube video was in fact from the US. I’m not believing crap YouTube videos. You are.
    2) it would be fairly long term. Iran isn’t easily invaded and as long as it continues to fight it can destabilise shipping.

    So what do you believe?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    So what do you believe?

    Not a word the yanks/brits say anyway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    So what do you believe?

    I believe it’s either a false flag by the US or it’s allies, or the allies (Saudi) are misleading the US.

    Iran has no reason to do this. And the original story has been mostly debunked anyway.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    I believe it’s either a false flag by the US or it’s allies, or the allies (Saudi) are misleading the US.

    Iran has no reason to do this. And the original story has been mostly debunked anyway.

    Your conclusion is definitely possible. Nonetheless I wouldn't be against the Us enforcing a regime change to a party more favourable to Western interests. Control of the oil supply will become more and more important going forward.
    I would prefer an American led global economy than a Chinese.
    The balance may eventually shift.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Your conclusion is definitely possible. Nonetheless I wouldn't be against the Us enforcing a regime change to a party more favourable to Western interests

    This will.just lead to civil war as accusations of it being a puppet government would be impossible to counter?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,958 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Bolton has never seen a war he did not like.

    Maybe America are telling the truth about this incident, but given their history of telling lies to advance their geo political aim over the years , i doubt it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Your conclusion is definitely possible. Nonetheless I wouldn't be against the Us enforcing a regime change to a party more favourable to Western interests. Control of the oil supply will become more and more important going forward.
    I would prefer an American led global economy than a Chinese.
    The balance may eventually shift.

    You haven’t been paying attention if you think that American led wars in the Middle East have promoted stability in any way, shape or form.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,104 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    He probably learned from Obama's mistakes in that department so.

    Trumps has more drone strikes under his belt that his predecessor.

    No idea where this notion comes from that he is moderate or interested in stopping the us actions abroad.

    He loves the thrill of it and bragging about it afterwards


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    The only thing you need to know about Trump is this: the only reason he has not been indicted, is because he is the President. if he loses the election in 2020, he will be arrested and charged and will die in jail, just like his campaign adviser Paul Manafort.

    Trump knows this.

    What you will see over the next 18 months will be a barrage of lies, criminality and the worst of human life. An invasion of Iran is a certainty. The next 18 months is going to be horrific for the US, and possibly all of us. The only hope we have is that he is impeached by his own colleagues in the Republican Party. He has already said he won't stand down, as Nixon did, so we are in for a very rough ride. He is already "wagging the dog" in Iran, and invasion seems a certainty and will result in thousands of civilian deaths.

    He may be a fat orange clown, but we are in for a hellish 18 months. 18 months that all Americans should remember next time they go to a polling booth.

    Not much consolation for the Iranian family, dropping their children to school, before the US bombs begin to fall on them to keep Trump out of jail.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,266 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    And the original story has been mostly debunked anyway.
    Which part was debunked? There were 4 ships attacked in that area and in all cases they were attacked for effect rather than to sink them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    You haven’t been paying attention if you think that American led wars in the Middle East have promoted stability in any way, shape or form.

    Iraq's oil fields were opened up to American companies who now control many of them.
    Mission accomplished.

    Destabilising the region is only collateral damage. Not important


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Oil is central to Iraq's present and future. It accounts for 99% of all government revenue. Along with existing reserves of 143 billion barrels (5th in the world) it is estimated there are 50 to 200 billion barrels yet to be discovered making it the largest unexplored market in the world.

    And with a pro American government in place that oil is as good as in Us hands.

    Iran next


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    The entire incident has been co-ordinated by Saudi Arabia. Anyone with a glimmer of intelligence knows this.

    There is absolutely no appetite among Americans for invading Iran. This is where Trump will come unstuck.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    The entire incident has been co-ordinated by Saudi Arabia. Anyone with a glimmer of intelligence knows this.

    There is absolutely no appetite among Americans for invading Iran. This is where Trump will come unstuck.

    It doesn't need to be a military invasion. An economic destruction via even tougher sanctions will get the same result. It's the common people who suffer most from sanctions and if enough squeeze is put on them it may spark internal conflict which gives the US a chance to install a government more favourable.
    Easy peasy


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    Trump won the swing states by 77,000 votes in total in 2016. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8M votes. Trump will lose the 2020 election by a landslide, as the Republicans lost the 2018 elections by enormous margins.

    No one wants to say this, but he has zero chance of being re-elected, not a hope in hell.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Trump won the swing states by 77,000 votes in total in 2016. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8M votes. Trump will lose the 2020 election by a landslide, as the Republicans lost the 2018 elections by enormous margins.

    No one wants to say this, but he has zero chance of being re-elected, not a hope in hell.

    Trump is a shoe in. The economy is booming. He won't be beaten


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Trump won the swing states by 77,000 votes in total in 2016. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8M votes. Trump will lose the 2020 election by a landslide, as the Republicans lost the 2018 elections by enormous margins.

    No one wants to say this, but he has zero chance of being re-elected, not a hope in hell.


    Let's not underestimate the Democrats ability to screw it up.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    It doesn't need to be a military invasion. An economic destruction via even tougher sanctions will get the same result. It's the common people who suffer most from sanctions and if enough squeeze is put on them it may spark internal conflict which gives the US a chance to install a government more favourable.
    Easy peasy

    True, but you're not taking Trump's view. Trump doesn't care about Iran nor the US, only votes, and a war wins votes. John Bolton in his ear, a war to get him re-elected, a war will happen. I am telling you now, Trump will invade Iran within the next two months.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    True, but you're not taking Trump's view. Trump doesn't care about Iran nor the US, only votes, and a war wins votes. John Bolton in his ear, a war to get him re-elected, a war will happen. I am telling you now, Trump will invade Iran within the next two months.

    Let's make a bet on both.

    You say trump won't be elected and the Us will invade Iran in the next 2 months.
    I say the opposite.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    kneemos wrote: »
    Let's not underestimate the Democrats ability to screw it up.

    Not a chance. Trump ran on promises last time, he has delivered nothing. Warren will win the nomination and she will destroy him.

    There is not a chance in hell he will be re-elected, not a hope.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Not a chance. Trump ran on promises last time, he has delivered nothing. Warren will win the nomination and she will destroy him.

    There is not a chance in hell he will be re-elected, not a hope.

    The Us economy is booming. This is all that matters. People are working and have more money.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Let's make a bet on both.

    You say trump won't be elected and the Us will invade Iran in the next 2 months.
    I say the opposite.

    Not a chance in hell Trump will be re-elected, not a chance.

    The US want to invade Iran. My only caveat is I am not sure whether Trump needs congressional approval. I am also not sure whether they need the approval of an Ally. But I will research both and let you know.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Not a chance in hell Trump will be re-elected, not a chance.

    The US want to invade Iran. My only caveat is I am not sure whether Trump needs congressional approval. I am also not sure whether they need the approval of an Ally. But I will research both and let you know.

    Just a bet on the election then.

    The possibility of an invasion has too many factors at play. Messy


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    The Us economy is booming. This is all that matters. People are working and have more money.

    Yes, Trump camp keeps saying that, but Trump has not even broken 50% approval, the worst in history. I don't think Americans believe a word he says. They don't have more money, it is tax season and none have reported a higher rebate than usual. Some have actually owed the tax office money.

    So your three statements don't stand up to the truth test. It is easy to get low unemployment for wages that are so low, that they cannot support a single person.

    On that note, Kamala Harris was in McDonalds pushing a minimum wage and Warren is also pushing a minimum wage, likewise Sanders.

    Who will you vote for? Trump telling you the economy has never been better, or Warren who says your $7 an hour will be $15 an hour under her adminstration, funded by billionaire tax hikes.

    Hmmmm, tough one.


    That noise is the sound of another blue tidal wave in 2020.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Yes, Trump camp keeps saying that, but Trump has not even broken 50% approval, the worst in history. I don't think Americans believe a word he says. They don't have more money, it is tax season and none have reported a higher rebate than usual. Some have actually owed the tax office money.

    So your three statements don't stand up to the truth test. It is easy to get low unemployment for wages that are so low, that they cannot support a single person.

    On that note, Kamala Harris was in McDonalds pushing a minimum wage and Warren is also pushing a minimum wage, likewise Sanders.

    Who will you vote for? Trump telling you the economy has never been better, or Warren who says your $7 an hour will be $15 an hour under her adminstration, funded by billionaire tax hikes.

    Hmmmm, tough one.

    Is min wage really 7 dollar an hour in america....wtf


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    _blaaz wrote: »
    Is min wage really 7 dollar an hour in america....wtf

    Yes it is. And when Warren visits your town and tells you that under her Administration, you will be paid a minimum $15 an hour, paid for by taxing Amazon. Who would you vote for?

    And when Warren says she will provide Universal Health Care and free University Fees, again paid by Billionaires, will you still vote for Trump?

    Warren is the greatest thing to happen to Americans.

    When your average American brings their kid to the doctors with a fever and they are treated, without being asked for any money, the Democrats have secured the next 50 years in the US.

    And it is happening, and it will happen. Universal healthcare and free university. THAT is the US we want.

    And they always ask Warren, "How will you pay?" And she always replies, "by taxing billionaires to the law"

    Amazon paid $0.00 in tax last year. Amazon's legal tax would pay for 3 years of healthcare for Americans.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Yes, Trump camp keeps saying that, but Trump has not even broken 50% approval, the worst in history. I don't think Americans believe a word he says. They don't have more money, it is tax season and none have reported a higher rebate than usual. Some have actually owed the tax office money.

    So your three statements don't stand up to the truth test. It is easy to get low unemployment for wages that are so low, that they cannot support a single person.

    On that note, Kamala Harris was in McDonalds pushing a minimum wage and Warren is also pushing a minimum wage, likewise Sanders.

    Who will you vote for? Trump telling you the economy has never been better, or Warren who says your $7 an hour will be $15 an hour under her adminstration, funded by billionaire tax hikes.

    Hmmmm, tough one.


    That noise is the sound of another blue tidal wave in 2020.

    Use the stock market as an indicator of how the economy is doing.
    It is booming.

    Why should someone on minimum wage be able to afford everything anyway? It's no different here.
    It's the very bottom. It should just be enough to keep someone out of homelessness. If you want better then you must work for it. Extra qualifications etc.
    The US do not have a ridiculous welfare policy like we have in Europe where people are rewarded for lack of ambition.
    It's the home of capitalism.

    Warren etc are full of it. The billionaires will pay through taxation. Don't make me laugh. That's pie in the sky populism


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    Trump has not a chance of winning the 2020 election, not a chance in hell.

    Boris Johnson will take the the leadership of the Tories, until the next election when Labour will win by a landslide.

    People are not stupid all the time.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Use the stock market as an indicator of how the economy is doing.
    It is booming.

    Why should someone on minimum wage be able to afford everything anyway? It's no different here.
    It's the very bottom. It should just be enough to keep someone out of homelessness. If you want better then you must work for it. Extra qualifications etc.
    The us do not have a ridiculous welfare policy like we have in Europe where people are rewarded for lack of ambition.
    It's the home of capitalism.

    Warren etc are full of it. The billionaires will pay through taxation. Don't make me laugh. That's pie in the sky populism

    Who the hell uses the Dow Jones to measure how they are doing?

    Nurses earn minimum wage, their work is not good enough according to you?

    And, sorry for laughing, billionaires paying their fair share is "populism"?

    ****ing hell. You need to go back to school. My god, that is an embarrassing post. Dear oh dear!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAA

    Holy jaysus, I've seem some excrement in my time, but your "thoughts and ideas" take the biscuit. What a stream of unintelligent ****e on a stick. A human being wasting space who should have a plastic bag wrapped around their head until they take their last breath.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Who the hell uses the Dow Jones to measure how they are doing?

    Nurses earn minimum wage, their work is not good enough according to you?

    And, sorry for laughing, billionaires paying their fair share is "populism"?

    ****ing hell. You need to go back to school.

    The average Us nurse salary is 67k. That's easily checked and definitely not minimum wage!

    Saying billionaires will pay more tax is populism. We all know Warren is full of it.

    Who uses the stock market as an indicator of the general performance of the economy?
    Economists and think tanks.

    School was too much for you. Even baby infants.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    There is definitely a ramping up of propaganda.

    BBC are leading with a British Citizen on Hunger Strike. She is in prison in Tehran for Espionage.

    Both Britain and the US are categorically stating that Iran are behind the oil tanker bombings.

    Why would the Iranian government bomb oil takers in the Gulf of Persia?
    Why the phuck would they bother?

    Nasty stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    The president of the oil tanker company said it wasn't a mine but a missile. Why would Iran attack a Japanese oil tanker while the Japanese Prime Minster is visiting the Ayatollah?

    So who hates Iran in the region?

    Isreal, Saudi Arabia, UAE? An independent group trying to start a war?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Trump has not a chance of winning the 2020 election, not a chance in hell.
    Boris Johnson will take the the leadership of the Tories, until the next election when Labour will win by a landslide.
    People are not stupid all the time.

    Can and will, up against creepy Joe anyway. There's only one contender than can beat him, and he's a wilcard/outsider who may not even get nomination.

    But if you really think he 'can't' sure lay the market for it: place 200(x) on him not to, if he should loose collect yourself a free 100(x).

    Yes, Boris is the equal to Trump and he will become the next PM, and if Farage's TBP should (likely will now) join the Tories, they've won already, thanks to dilution of Labour towards LidDems and Greens etc.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    There is definitely a ramping up of propaganda.

    BBC are leading with a British Citizen on Hunger Strike. She is in prison in Tehran for Espionage.

    Both Britain and the US are categorically stating that Iran are behind the oil tanker bombings.

    Why would the Iranian government bomb oil takers in the Gulf of Persia?
    Why the phuck would they bother?

    Nasty stuff.


    The BBC towing the US line despite the obvious flaws in the story is rather unsettling.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    There is definitely a ramping up of propaganda.

    This is true. Worrying times ahead.

    To play Devils advocate, for all his smack talk Trump hasn't directly involved the US in any conflicts since taking office. He has even reduced troop numbers in several areas.

    If they attempt any kind of action in Iran oil prices will go crazy, and likely trigger a global recession. Iran is a regional powerhouse with a significant defence force.

    Sad to see the UK towing the US line again, you'd think they have bigger problems to fucus on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    On the plus side, if you've got a aul shed load of gold, expect it to rise in value $1,350^c today.
    Still a bit to go before see 2012's (when planet nibiru or something was due to land): $1,800.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭squawker


    John (someone pissed in my cornflakes) Bolton is the man in Trump's ear

    I am quite worried what the reaction will be


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    kneemos wrote: »
    The BBC towing the US line despite the obvious flaws in the story is rather unsettling.

    The BBC have become an absolute farce of a news broadcaster. Getting as bad as Fox.


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