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    You see boys and girls, if you want to take Putin out of the Kremlin and control all Soviet oilfields, this is how you do it. Start from Venezuela, then Iran, Russia will fall in less than one year seeing the effort NATO has already put in over the years to break up the Soviet Union. Then China will be the last one standing before we run over Shanghai.

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    The story keeps changing because they don’t want to admit that this was done to touch off Armageddon, and bring on The Rapture. The soldiers were specifically told that by their commander. The reason is literally “because God told us to.”

    At least 200 soldiers have filed formal complaints.

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    4 months ago

    “Wow, are you going to give further details?”

    “Then we might have to actually do something, so… no. But hey, elections are coming up! Maybe we can form a committee to look into it in the next ten to sixteen months if we win.”

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    Actually that’s pretty much what we thought, but it’s good to get a second opinion from someone on the inside.

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    all of those people dead for literally no reason. like a wise man once said, the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood

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    I was under the impression that he declared war on brown people with no fucking plan whatsoever because he’s racist, under the false impression that being at war means he can stay in office no matter what (despite his entire life being filled with counterexamples), and him trying to distract from his close ties with and probable crimes as a child rapist.

    I actually don’t know how it could be worse

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    > Irish Star

    * Looks inside *

    Reach USA, 14 Wall Street, 20th Floor, New York, 10005

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    Under the U.S. Constitution, it’s up to Congress, not the president, to decide when the country goes to war. —Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii

    clown

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      Born to early to go to war with Iran. Born too late to go to war with Iran. Born just in time to go to war with Iran.

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      It’s already obvious they don’t need congress to tell them what to do. These laws and constitutions are meant to control the rest of us, it does not apply to them. The sooner you understand this, the more their actions start to make sense.

  • ليتني كوري شمالي @lemmy.ml
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    Things are looking up… for Iran.

    I am not asking for much, I just want the US to lose to Iran even more decisively and quickly than it lost to Afghanistan, and for Tel Aviv to look like Rafah today.

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            It is tricky to translate since it is not in Standard Arabic. It basically contrasts the sorry state of the Arab World at the mercy of the US with North Korea’s resilient and heroic opposition to the US. Here’s a translation:

            If only I were North Korean,

            Standing tall, my head held high.

            Embarrassing that fool Bush,

            Crushing his head beneath my sandals.

            If only I were North Korean,

            Never yielding, never wavering,

            Never once showing cowardice,

            Never bowing in humiliation or compromise.

            My head as firm as the mountains.

            If only I were North Korean,

            Saying with a thunderous voice:

            “We do not fear you, you deluded one.

            Do whatever you wish —

            You don’t know the men you’re facing.”

            If only I were North Korean,

            Never once in his life did he submit,

            Never allowed his palace to be searched,

            His hands and waist never trembled,

            And he twisted the ropes with confidence.

            If only I were North Korean,

            Saying: “I have a reactor for you,

            Producing thousands of bombs,

            With range reaching all the way to New York,

            You fool, son of fools.”

            If only I were North Korean,

            I’d burn you in the middle of your home —

            You and everyone who joined your war.

            Don’t think I’m Mubarak,

            Nor am I Saddam in my foolishness.

            If only I were North Korean,

            The Arabs are a strong nation,

            But their zeal betrayed them,

            Ignorance slaughtered them,

            And their foundation became people of foolishness.

            If only I were North Korean,

            If we had walked upon the path of Islam,

            We would not have been defeated nor lost,

            By God’s will we would have triumphed,

            And gained honor and beauty.

            If only I were North Korean…

            Oh, North Korean…

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    Sen. Angus King, the independent from Maine, said it’s “very disturbing” that Trump took the U.S. to war because Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to bomb Iran. Past U.S. presidents, he said, “have consistently said, ‘No.’” Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii said the briefing left him with more questions than answers… While presidents have the authority as the commander in chief to conduct certain strategic military operations on their own, the Constitution vests Congress with the power to wage war. Before the Iraq War began in March 2003, Republican President George W. Bush made a monthslong push to secure congressional authorization. No such vote was attempted on Iran, and an earlier Senate effort to halt Trump’s actions after last summer’s strike on Iran failed.

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        It’s a failed democracy / humane state. It’s doing wonderfully as a dictatorship. The rich are profiting quite a bit off this I’m sure.

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          Failed states are often performing well for a small group. But Failed states are performing really bad for the vast majority of the population.

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      While presidents have the authority as the commander in chief to conduct certain strategic military operations on their own, the Constitution vests Congress with the power to wage war.

      So, the President DOESN’T have the authority as commander in chief to conduct certain strategic military operations on their own, according to this “constitution” guy.

      He’s a moron, Presidents do this all the time. IN YOUR FACE CONSTITUTION