Iran to break uranium stockpile limit set by nuclear deal, spokesman says

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    Questerr Banned

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    That’s all that’s been sent SO FAR. The invasion of Iraq didn’t start with a hundred thousand troops magically appearing in Kuwait instanteously.
     
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    No, they are starving because the Saudis are blockading the country and deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
     
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    No Bush sent like 500,000, 5000 tanks, 5 air craft carrier battle groups, and half the US airforce.

    Trump sent 2500 soldiers.
     
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    Why not.

    The UN "Human Rights" council has Venezuela, China, and ...... Saudi Arabia on it.
     
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    Bush sent all those forces all at once? There was no build-up over time? You have a source for that?
     
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    Why are they blockading the country.

    Did they just feel like it one day.
     
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    Amnesty International is not the UN Human Rights council.

    But that is super interesting. To a Rightwing mind, Amnesty International is a terrorist organization, but white supremacists who run down innocent people are “very fine people”.
     
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    Funny how Trump supporters claim to be against "radical Islam" while defending US support for the Saudi regime, which is the physical embodiment of everything that radical Islam represents.

    The 9/11 hijackers were predominately Saudi.

    Most of the AQ/ISIS fighters in Iraq killing US troops were Saudis.

    The state ideology of Saudi Arabia is virtually identical to the ideology of AQ/ISIS.

    The madrassas which brainwash young men into becoming suicide bombers, rapists, and savages are funded almost entirely by Saudis.

    The AQ/ISIS "rebels" inside Syria were trained, funded, and armed almost entirely by Saudi Arabia.

    Virtually every major terrorist attack against the west in the past two decades have been committed by Sunni Muslims who adhere to the same Wahhabi ideology as the Saudi royal family.

    Saudi Arabia is nothing more than a terrorist factory that exports radical Islam to every corner of the globe.
     
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    The Saudi blockade is causing mass starvation inside Yemen. That is a fact. Their motivation for committing this heinous and wanton mass murder is neither here nor there. But you can be assured that their motivations are entirely nefarious and unjustified all the same.
     
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    Why are they blockading the country.
     
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    Actually, I think it was president Bolton who sent them. He seems to be the one in charge of US foreign policy these days. Puzzling, since Bolton was one of the primary architects of the Iraq war.
     
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    Because they are an evil dictatorship that wants to impose their will on their neighbors.
     
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    No, but it's an organization with unknown members designed to sound good.

    You know, like "The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea" and "UN Human Rights council".
     
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    Desert Shield was shorter than 6 months

    Coalition: 39 countries, of which 28 contributed combat forces

    Force size: Approximately 670,000 troops from 28 countries, 425,000 of which were from the United States.

    Coalition air component size: 2,250 combat aircraft, 1,800 of which were American

    Price: Estimated $61 billion dollars of which Gulf States covered $36 billion while Germany and Japan covered $16 billion

    U.S. combat related deaths: 147

    U.S. non-combat related deaths: 145

    Iraqi deaths: 100,000+

    Coalition POWs taken during the war: 26

    Iraqi POWs taken during the war: 70,000+

    Coalition aircraft lost: 75 total, 63 U.S. and 12 allied

    Iraqi aircraft lost in air-to-air engagements: 42

    Iraqi aircraft lost on the ground: 81

    Iraqi aircraft flown to Iran: 137

    Number of oil well fires Saddam set off: 610

    Millions of gallons of crude oil dumped into the Persian Gulf: Up to 11 million barrels

    Coalition sorties flown: 100,000+

    Tons of bombs dropped: 88,500

    Cruise missiles fired: 297 Tomahawks plus 35 CALCMs

    GPS units fielded at the time: 1,332

    Coalition airlift: 509,129 passengers and 594,730 tons of cargo carried

    Iraqi tanks lost during the war: 3,700 out of 4,280 in inventory

    Dollars Iraq owed Kuwait before they invaded: $14 billion

    Iraqi SCUD missiles launched: 81

    Number of U.S. Carrier Battle Groups: 6

    Aerial refueling: 15,434 sorties and dispensed 110.2 million gallons of fuel

    30mm depleted uranium rounds fired by A-10 Warthogs: 782,514

    Number of air-to-air missiles fired by U.S. aircraft: 174

    Number of anti-radiation missiles fired at Iraqi radars: 2,039

    Number of dumb bombs dropped: 210,004 of which 39.336 were cluster munitions

    Number of smart bombs (LGB/EO) dropped: 9,342

    Number of air-to-ground missiles fired: 5,930 (excludes those fired by the U.S. Army)

    Duration of air campaign before ground invasion: 39 days

    Ground war duration: 100 hours
     
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    Thank you for confirming it was a build up. Now you can stop using that idiotic argument you have been.
     
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    Supporting an Islamic dictatorship that exports terrorism to every corner of the globe = Okay

    Making peace with Iran = Not okay

    Trumpian logic at its finest!
     
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    So far the Orange Fuhrer has sent 2500......

    How bout you monitor it for me..... lol
     
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    He’s sent 2,500 SO FAR.
     
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    You might recall I mentioned maybe we're arming them to help them wipe each other out faster.

    I don't think I defended SA anywhere. I just realize that all Islamic nations do is kill each other.
     
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    Yup, I agree only 497,500 to go....

    Lemme know when it happens.....
     
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    Don't give them math, that never ends well.
     
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    Are you actually trying to suggest that Saudi involvement in Yemen is motivated by a desire to stop terrorism? Or that such a motive could ever justify the deliberate and systematic starvation of millions of women and children?

    Yemen has been awash in arms since the US and the Soviets flooded it with guns and bombs during the cold war. The idea that Iran is fueling the conflict there is beyond asinine and specifically contradicted by all historical evidence.

    At any rate, none of this changes the fact that mass starvation inside Yemen is being caused by the Saudi blockade of that country. Saudi motives for implementing this heinous blockade are beside the fact.
     
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    It's already happening. Needless wars usually come about through increments, not overnight. US presence in Vietnam began with only a few hundred "advisers". This is a clear attempt by president Bolton to create further pretexts for war. And Trump supporters are just fine with it. They simply do not care that Trump is breaking his most important promises to put America first.
     
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    If that were true, then we'd be arming both sides instead of just the terrorist-loving Saudis.

    You keep trying to justify their heinous starvation warfare against the people of Yemen by blaming it all on the Houthis and Iran. If that's not a defense of Saudi Arabia, then I don't know what is.
     

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