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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking MSNOW: "WH OFFICIAL SAYS TRUMP FUNDAMENTALLY MISCALCULATED
ON IRAN AFTER NEW ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL"
So... a "WH official" has spoken to MSNOW and said that trump "miscalculated"?
What was this "official's" first clue? I mean....wow. And it is going to take a lot more than anonymous leaks from this administration's yes men to fix this.
Renew Deal
(85,469 posts)Trump has been lying about Irans desire for a deal from the beginning. Hes been the one most desperate to make something happen. Every statement from him is a confession.
sboatcar
(923 posts)They know that there's elections coming up, so they'll just wait it out and make it more and more unpopular. After this latest round of attacks, Trump's response is so weak that they know they're negotiating from a position of power.
He'll give them whatever they want so he can say he made a peace deal.
Ponietz
(4,617 posts)sboatcar
(923 posts)cstanleytech
(28,698 posts)RockRaven
(20,069 posts)negotiated/stopped bombing them. At least, that is how it reads to me without further context.
I don't think it refers to the miscalculation at the very beginning of this bad business which we would all agree upon but almost everyone in the WH would still dispute.
Klarkashton
(5,517 posts)Isn't going to make any difference.
RockRaven
(20,069 posts)wnylib
(26,829 posts)who gave him tons of money and gifts in expectation of protection were being attacked by Iran. They told him to stop.
Donnie got himself into this mess with nobody to bail him out.
C_U_L8R
(49,647 posts)Who knew.
Sneederbunk
(17,777 posts)Not smart..
tanyev
(49,950 posts)Lovie777
(24,529 posts)everybody needs to be subservient because they are just stupid.
Whoever leaked that out will be tar and feather and fired. Better yet, DOJ and acting AG will indict the person.
WheelWalker
(9,420 posts)ecstatic
(35,155 posts)Instead of thinking, I wonder why other presidents have abstained from getting involved, his first thought is: For 47 years, other presidents did nothing about Iran! I'm smarter than all of them! I have more courage than them! I'm going to do something about Iran.
There will be many more "miscalculations," and a lot of people will die as a result.
GoodRaisin
(11,189 posts)He is 100% responsible. He overplayed his cards.
He will go down as one of the worst world leaders in history because he started this.
chicoescuela
(3,345 posts)purr-rat beauty
(1,661 posts)Every zealot syncophant and spineless congress person...
They own this too
SamuelTheThird
(1,471 posts)Something like this hasn't happened before
bucolic_frolic
(56,337 posts)irisblue
(38,158 posts)LilElf70
(1,717 posts)What the final costs will be.
Justice matters.
(10,236 posts)Official U.S. casualty figures in the conflict with Iran stand at 13 service members killed in action and over 360 wounded.
The majority of the wounded sustained minor injuries, though a portion required serious medical treatment.
AND FOR WHAT? High gas prices? They should all be healthy and fine!
mr715
(4,878 posts)LuvLoogie
(9,060 posts)One of Rubio's deputies. Or someone from the NSA.
mr715
(4,878 posts)Given the nature of the rumblings, I would've thought someone from Vance's camp, not Rubio nor Hegseth nor Wiles.
Xolodno
(7,381 posts)...while they are playing no limit Texas Holdem.
struggle4progress
(127,207 posts).Fortunately nobody knows as much about miscalculating as Donnie the Dim!
DavidDvorkin
(20,772 posts)He does everything by whim of the moment.
senseandsensibility
(26,036 posts)FakeNoose
(43,050 posts)Instead, they're letting him twist slowly in the wind....
Chump is on his own, and he knows he started this when he tore up Obama's treaty in 2018.
He deserves the opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize, whatever that may be.

tulipsandroses
(8,331 posts)Just imagine if this was a democratic president. The media would lose their shit.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,982 posts)gay texan
(3,282 posts)Beacool
(30,537 posts)Blues Heron
(9,133 posts)LymphocyteLover
(10,430 posts)Hope22
(4,959 posts)Service members should be irate about the lack of planning and consideration. This is the kind of crap we marched against regarding Iraq!!
Beartracks
(14,751 posts)And we know this for a fact because he told us himself.
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Aussie105
(8,358 posts)Who would have thought that the billions of taxpayers dollars 'invested' in the military industrial complex, and the God given moral superiority America assumes is theirs, would be insufficient to stomp a supposedly backwards country like Iran into the ground?
Yet here we are.
usonian
(27,184 posts)I understand that hackers have taken over the "Jumbotron" at Madison Square Garden and plan a UUUUUUGE surprise or two or tnree.
That would give him a stroke, since he physically cannot get a heart attack.



haele
(15,714 posts)Any difference?