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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Tom Cotton says U.S., allies looking at "weeks, not days, of joint efforts" in Iran [View all]DFW
(60,009 posts)22. "Maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months." Does that sound familiar?
It was said by Donald Rumsfeld right after the start of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He was slightly off in his prediction. Anyone want to bet that Cotton is more than slightly off now?
Iran has 90 million people and is almost as big as Alaska. Trump had better follow the advice of Richard Crenna's character in the first Rambo movie:
Iran DOES have one thing that would have been a huge advantage for us: a huge, massive dissident movement that hates the Ayatollahs. In fact, just about the only thing that would make them go back to supporting them would be if there were to be a massive attack on Iran from the outside.
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Sen. Tom Cotton says U.S., allies looking at "weeks, not days, of joint efforts" in Iran [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
OP
Saudi may not be participating as an ally, but this is their wet dream too. Showered trumps with billions to get it.
pat_k
20 hrs ago
#35
The magnitude of the corruption, which goes back decades, has grown to epic proportions.
pat_k
12 hrs ago
#48
"Maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months." Does that sound familiar?
DFW
21 hrs ago
#22
The name given to the operation perfectly reveals the mindset of those who launched this was. Just a big video game.
Martin68
21 hrs ago
#23
If Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, Korea, etc. are anything to go by, make that years.
appleannie1
20 hrs ago
#29
When does Barron Trump head to a US military boot camp? Bone spurs are not hereditary
usaf-vet
14 hrs ago
#46