AgBQ-00 said:

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wasn't the goal to begin with. the goal was to give the Iranian people the chance to take it back themselves. they are proud enough to want to have a hand in winning their freedom. and would not be accepting to occupation forces

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Did we bomb and regime change Iran to protect the US and allies from nuke threat?

Or was it to liberate the Iranian people?

Or was it payback for Oct 7th?

With Iraq, it was all of the above. Save the US from WMDs, payback for 9/11, and liberate the Iraqi people.

The only thing different is Trump is going to cut and run, unlike Bush who spent 9 years and $3T.

What other costs are taxpayers going to incur? What's the total bill going to be? Are you all happy that a portion of your paychecks is going to this?

yes

I'm not going to wring my hands about it at all. I dont care how many brutal dictators we kill and topple. as long as we are not nation building i dont care. eliminating a threat that should've been dealt with almost 50 years ago is a win

Yes. It's the only thing I support a portion of my check going to. HTH

Well said

AgBQ-00 said:

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yes

I'm not going to wring my hands about it at all. I dont care how many brutal dictators we kill and topple. as long as we are not nation building i dont care. eliminating a threat that should've been dealt with almost 50 years ago is a win

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"Toppling brutal dictators" sounds great. No one likes them.

But how has it worked in the past? What do the stats and scoreboard tell us?

Maybe this time is different, but outside of WW2 and Korean war exceptions, it has mostly been costly disasters.

Guess we will see here. I was a fan of the Trump B2 bombing surgical strikes. This is quite different. I hope your expectation comes to fruition, and Iran recovers quickly without costing the US taxpayer trillions.

FobTies said:

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How was Iran "still enriching Uranium"? Didn't Trump totally annihilate that capability?

Iran was never close to being a threat to the US, other than their adverse oil partnerships with our enemies.

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Who?mikejones! said:

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CNN forced to report on the celebrations and support in the streets of Los Angeles for Trump kiIIing Ayatollah Khameneipic.twitter.com/tODir9J2qO

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 28, 2026

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Was she really there? It looks like she's speaking in front of a green screen.

she got bumped by a passerby during her report

It's (D)ifferent this time big dawg…

You think the Third Reich's threat to the UK is the same as Iran's threat to the US.

AgBQ-00 said:

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she got bumped by a passerby during her report

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He didn't even look at her though. Everything behind her looks flat. Is this normal? I know they do things with the camera to make the person speaking stand out more.

Matt, this is not accurate to what the President actually stated are the goals of Operation Epic Fury.

The President did not say the objective was to “bring freedom to the Iranian people.” He was clear: the goals are to end Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, end the expanding… https://t.co/wMpXHnmtjh

— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) February 28, 2026

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Yes. It's the only thing I support a portion of my check going to. HTH

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Agreed. I support this over, at least. 80% of what the federal government wastes money on.

FobTies said:

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AgBQ-00 said:

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yes

I'm not going to wring my hands about it at all. I dont care how many brutal dictators we kill and topple. as long as we are not nation building i dont care. eliminating a threat that should've been dealt with almost 50 years ago is a win

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"Toppling brutal dictators" sounds great. No one likes them.

But how has it worked in the past? What do the stats and scoreboard tell us?

Maybe this time is different, but outside of WW2 and Korean war exceptions, it has mostly been costly disasters.

Guess we will see here. I was a fan of the Trump B2 bombing surgical strikes. This is quite different. I hope your expectation comes to fruition, and Iran recovers quickly without costing the US taxpayer trillions.

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The US - or more precisely the corrupt CIA - has a history of nation building. Trump, so far, does not. Trump removes a threat then gets out of the way.

So the media is already churning out polls saying almost every is opposed to the strikes.

Watch almost any channel and they'll spend more time on the polls than anything else since all seems quiet for the moment.

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Libs and Al Jazeera on the same page as mullahs. The mullahs that just murdered 1000s of protestors .
And want to build nukes to destroy Israel and America.

This is called a winning strategy

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It appears that, since Russia seems to be laying this one out, Iran is down to only a few allies. That includes US leftists and probably the UN.

Iranian Rhapsody 🎹🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷

Trump is on fire here. Political satire meets cinematic AI music.

Created with @replicate using their Prune AI, which makes generating audio2video so much easier. pic.twitter.com/JHSeT8S8O1

— Sith Daddy (@sithdaddyvlogs) February 28, 2026

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This whole situation is insane. They try to convince us to attack Iran. Why? When anyone says it's due to Israeli influence on our government, they're labeled antisemitic. Netanyahu has been in our White House 7 times in a calendar year. He's addressed our Congress. It's ludicrous.

Iran has been on the verge of nuclear weapon for 30 years. I thought we destroyed their nuclear capabilities in the great strike last year.

They try to sell us that the Iranian people are being oppressed. So? People are oppressed everywhere but we don't involve ourselves. We are told we will bring democracy to the region (we don't even follow western democratic values here anymore). These people can't handle democracy.

There's no plan. Just like in Iraq. What's going to happen when the regime falls? The refugees will go to Europe and here.

And like any criticism of policy on this board one must express their allegiance to Trump lest be called TDS or a leftist.

I'm sick of the wars. I'm sick of the corruption. I voted Trump every time to clean this stuff. But I'm more confident than ever that they're all compromised.

I'm sick of our leaders being elected on a position and then completely deviating. The whole thing makes me sick as ****.

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This is a legitimate complaint of Trump. The man that said he can negotiate everything. Goes to war in the Middle East.

These Islamist fanatics

are no different than German Nazi fanatics with the death of Hitler in April 1945

An Iranian news anchor broke down in tears on live television while reading the news of Ali Khamenei’s death. pic.twitter.com/5v7WpTBYr4

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 1, 2026

but all the leftists and dummies who support the Islamic Republic still believe THEY are the moral actors here. Not the ones punishing mass murderers of civilians.

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AgResearch said:

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Who?mikejones! said:

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Turns out, obama had Iranian homers in his cabinet that dropped pallets of card instead and didn't really get anything in exchange.

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John Kerry and Susan Rice need a one way flight to Iran today.

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Please always include Valerie Jarrett on that thought. The $150 billion to the regime in Obama's last week in office was just the icing on the cake.

Obama’s orbit:

Valerie Jarrett

Strzok grew up in Iran

Lisa Page’s mother, Iranian

Kerry’s daughter married Iranian

John Brennan converted to Islam

Huma Abedin, ties w MB

Obama refused to help victims of Iran’s Green Revolution https://t.co/bYV54Bh66W

— 🇺🇸𝕄𝔸𝔾𝔸 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 ن ♱ (@45LVNancy) January 12, 2026

Also, never forget that notorious race-communist bigot Jimmy Carter facilitated the Iranian revolution in favor of the ayatollah vs. the Shah; his surviving cabinet members have never apologized. From a political perspective, we really owe the Iranian people this effort, imho.

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This is simply not true. Read King of Kings by Scott Andersen.

All of the war hawks on this page need to slow down.

I feel that we are 2 for 5* on regime change since 1918. Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Hamilton
et al warned us about foreign entanglements and we haven't listened.


Wins.


Germany twice


Losses

Cuba
Iran
Vietnam
Iraq
Afghanistan

It's not worth the money spent.

leftists and those who support the Islamic Republic- stand with these monsters and maniacs:

A female news anchor of the Iran’s state-owned English-language news media organisation Press TV starts crying hysterically and issuing threats against America after Iran’s official announcement of Khamenei’s death.

She can barely breath as she screams:

“Revenge is coming” pic.twitter.com/yGXP7MDfY0

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 1, 2026

I choose to stand for the freedom of 40 million Iranian women from being kidnapped and raped by IRGC whenever they walk outside.

Well that's because you are ignorant of actual history.

love how the dummies claim because GEORGE WASHINGTON 250 years ago said something-

that they then IGNORE PRESIDENT Thomas Jefferson a few years after Washington who went to war against the MUSLIM BARBARY PIRATES IN MOROCCO

I am not sure what you are claiming 'simply is not true.' Carter 100 percent facilitated the removal of the Shah and installation of the Ayatollah. He was at his very best a naive moron, and at worst clearly a hateful race bigot as shown by both his words and actions alike.

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The Western media, especially the BBC, began to promote the Ayatollah as a moderate alternative to the Shah's "brutal regime". The Ayatollah assured U.S. intelligence operatives and State Department officials that he would only be the "figurehead" for a western parliamentary system.

During the fall of 1978, strikes and demonstrations paralysed the country. The Carter Administration, led by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.S. Ambassador to Iran William Sullivan, coalesced around abandoning the Shah and helping install Khomeini, who they viewed as a "moderate clergyman" who would be Iran's "Gandhi-like" spiritual leader.

Time and political capital ran out. On January 16, 1979, the Shah, after arranging for an interim government, resigned and went into exile.
The balance of power shifted to the Iranian military.

While the Shah was preparing for his departure, General Robert Huyser, Deputy Commander of NATO, and his top aides, arrived in Iran. They were under Carter's orders to neutralise the military leaders. Using ties of friendship, promises of aid, and assurance of safety, Huyser and his team convinced the Iranian commanders to allow the transitional government to finalise arrangements for Khomeini becoming part of the new government.

Subsequently, many of these Iranian military leaders, and their families, were slaughtered. Khomeini and his Islamic Republican Guard toppled the transitional government and seized power during the Spring of 1979. "It was a most despicable act of treachery, for which I will always be ashamed" admitted one NATO general years later.

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What he did to Iranians is only slightly worse than what he did for Rhodesians.

If the Straight of Hormuz is blocked for weeks and gas price go to $4.50+ a gallon, it will be interesting to see how the bulk of this country reacts.

and all the leftists and dummies around the world who have supported the Islamic Republic over the last many years and fought to keep the Ayatollah in power-

don't try to pretend you are a decent human being.

Wow! Give you chills! Watch sheer jubilation as the people of #Iran poured out onto the streets in celebration tonight in Fuladshahr, Mamasani, Barazjan, Shiraz and Abadan. Just contagious! pic.twitter.com/tRggbqNZcN

— Lisa Daftari (@LisaDaftari) February 28, 2026

GeorgiAg said:

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I feel this is my duty to get the thread going. (I dint give a crap about Iran)

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2013

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The crazy thing is you can literally find a Trump quote like this for nearly every thing he's done. Like a walking contradiction.

And how is that going to happen? It hasn't even been (fully) blocked to date and there's little likelihood Iran's ability to do so is going to increase. Iran's ability to export oil is going to plummet though, a necessary condition to cripple the regime's ability to pay their 'security forces.'

Kharg Island is closed at the moment I believe, but I could be wrong.

Kharg Island is Iran’s jugular.

80-90% of Iran’s crude exports flow through this supertanker terminal in the Persian Gulf. No Kharg, no oil revenue. No oil revenue, no regime. Every war plan, every sanctions package, every naval deployment in the Gulf orbits this one fact. https://t.co/E0mVmlC9ea pic.twitter.com/mRuT3gTY1s

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) February 28, 2026

You follow a leader long enough and you will hear them contradicting themselves. That's why you should always ignore what they say and watch what they do.

Trump trolls Democrats and the occasional Republicans on Twitter, all day long and then does what's best for the country. Sometimes at 1:30 in the morning, a full five hours after our last president's bedtime

Queso1 said:

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This whole situation is insane. They try to convince us to attack Iran. Why? When anyone says it's due to Israeli influence on our government, they're labeled antisemitic. Netanyahu has been in our White House 7 times in a calendar year. He's addressed our Congress. It's ludicrous.

Iran has been on the verge of nuclear weapon for 30 years. I thought we destroyed their nuclear capabilities in the great strike last year.

They try to sell us that the Iranian people are being oppressed. So? People are oppressed everywhere but we don't involve ourselves. We are told we will bring democracy to the region (we don't even follow western democratic values here anymore). These people can't handle democracy.

There's no plan. Just like in Iraq. What's going to happen when the regime falls? The refugees will go to Europe and here.

And like any criticism of policy on this board one must express their allegiance to Trump lest be called TDS or a leftist.

I'm sick of the wars. I'm sick of the corruption. I voted Trump every time to clean this stuff. But I'm more confident than ever that they're all compromised.

I'm sick of our leaders being elected on a position and then completely deviating. The whole thing makes me sick as ****.

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Spot on. Being a supporter shouldn't mean staying silent when the 'America First' platform gets sidelined for more foreign intervention. We've seen this movie before in Iraq, and we know how it ends.
Demanding transparency and a clear plan isn't being a leftist or 'TDS'. It's wanting the leadership to stay the course and avoid another trillion-dollar mess. It's possible to support the movement while still questioning the rush toward a new conflict.

It is already effectively closed because tanker owners won't take the risk. This has always been a concern in a conflict with Iran. Shipments greatly dropped through the Red Sea because of the Houthis and that is a lot larger distance to attack with a less capable Iranian proxy. As for how they could do it, have you not seen Iran drones hitting bases and cities a lot further away?

ETA. Historically, blocking Hormuz by Iran was a bad economic decision because they would also lose their oil exports but with their facility already out of action, they don't stand to lose much by blocking it now.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-gas-majors-traders-suspend-shipments-via-hormuz-us-attacks-iran-sources-say-2026-02-28/