Tornado Alley (PROG)

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brooklyn13. Your crook tactic of throwing mud without valid evidence in support of it continues.

"I think I read somewhere that you are trying to distance yourself from previous posts, in which you claimed to have "read somewhere", something, after you realized their theses were dubious. You still have numb nuts, here, who are insisting this war was instigated on "Bibi's" behalf and wondering what he'll demand next."

Your first there is a clear cut, absolute lie. You don't think you read anywhere that i have tried to distance myself from anything i have said because you couldn't have.

To your

"Don't really understand who the "us" is you refer to, it seems like plenty of local posters are cheerleading these attacks and buying into the Trump spin."

My "us" obviously could only mean those you have disputed most with. I moderate the board with DesertDrifter, i speak for myself only and have never claimed anything different, so your effort there to marry me with all other opinions on this board is yet another dishonest move of yours.

No doubt Netanyahu has been asking Trump to attack Iran since 2016, so there would be no big wrong in saying Trump did it on Netanyahu's behalf.

Exactly why Trump picked now to do what he has done only Trump knows. All the rest 'detail' on that is conjecture.

Bottom line is that you have made those comments about me without giving an iota of evidence for them, so that post of yours goes.

To Heather Cox Richardson's there is nothing there i disagree with. Nothing there which contradicts anything i have said, including her mention of Trump ripping up the deal between Obama and Iran, including the fact Trump ran as a dove and is acting the hawk he has always been, and including . Obviously she covers more than i have, but i have said this repeatedly:

"The Constitution gives to Congress, not to the president, the power to declare war. After fighting for their independence against a king they considered a tyrant, the men of the constitutional convention were not about to hand the power of raising an army to a single man. One delegate commented that he “never expected to hear in a republic a motion to empower the Executive alone to declare war.”

Trump’s attack on Iran also violates the charter of the United Nations, under which members promise not to attack other states. This particular attack raises the specter of a larger war. In an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council today, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “[e]verything must be done to prevent a further escalation” in the Middle East."
Your - https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-28-2026

Snyder is good, this from Richardson's:

Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder noted in Thinking About… that Trump’s personal corruption is another interpretive framework for thinking about his decision to go to war. Trump’s sudden foray into regime change after years of attacking other presidents who tried it raises the question of whether he is acting for other countries in the Middle East he considers his allies.

“Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration,” Snyder wrote, “one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis.” Snyder noted that Gulf Arab states eager to curb Iran’s power “have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally and with members of his family.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-28-2026

is spot on. Your post goes because of those ridiculous baseless attacks on my credibility put up by you without required links in support.