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Gary Boddicker

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Trader. Government is not my Nanny. You are not my responsibility. I did drink with Csonka & Kiick in the Miller Beer Room on Gasoline Alley & I’d do it again.

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Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes@barnes_law·
This is the most contradictory gibberish seen in a while, an impressive feat from Soros Scotty. We're going to stop sanctions on Iranian oil, but not let the money go to Iran. We're winning the war, but we're going to not sanction Iranian oil for now. Prices will magically fall.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent

Iran is the head of the snake for global terrorism, and through President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, we are winning this critical fight at an even faster pace than anticipated. In response to Iran’s terrorist attacks against global energy infrastructure, the Trump Administration will continue to deploy America’s economic and military might to maximize the flow of energy to the world, strengthen global supply, and seek to ensure market stability. Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea. At present, sanctioned Iranian oil is being hoarded by China on the cheap. By temporarily unlocking this existing supply for the world, the United States will quickly bring approximately 140 million barrels of oil to global markets, expanding the amount of worldwide energy and helping to relieve the temporary pressures on supply caused by Iran. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against Tehran to keep the price down as we continue Operation Epic Fury. This temporary, short-term authorization is strictly limited to oil that is already in transit and does not allow new purchases or production. Further, Iran will have difficulty accessing any revenue generated and the United States will continue to maintain maximum pressure on Iran and its ability to access the international financial system. So far, the Trump Administration has been working to bring around 440 million additional barrels of oil to the global market, undercutting Iran’s ability to leverage its disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s pro-energy agenda has driven U.S. oil and gas production to record levels, strengthening energy security and lowering fuel costs. Any short-term disruption now will ultimately translate into longer-term economic gains for Americans – because there is no prosperity without security.

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Scott Horton
Scott Horton@scotthortonshow·
The USS Liberty: Argument From Authority: · Dean Rusk, Secretary of State at the time: "The Liberty was flying an American flag. It was not all that difficult to identify, and my judgment was that somewhere along the line some fairly senior Israeli official gave the go-ahead for these attacks." · George Ball, Under Secretary of State at the time: "American leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of its citizens." · Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I have to conclude that it was Israel's intent to sink the Liberty and leave as few survivors as possible. Israel knew perfectly well that the ship was American." · NSA Director Marshall Carter said “it couldn’t be anything else but deliberate. There’s just no way you could have a series of circumstances that would justify it being an accident” … "There was no other answer than it was deliberate." · Captain William McGonagale, Captain of USS Liberty, initially aided in the coverup but at the end of his life called for a true investigation, feeling that it was not a case of mistaken identity. "After many years I finally believe that the attack was deliberate." · NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella believed it was a deliberate attack. -- Dr. Louis Tordella, the deputy director of NSA at the time: "I believed the attack might have been ordered by some senior commander on the Sinai Peninsula [where the massacres were taking place] who wrongly suspected that the Liberty was monitoring his activities." Tordella also scrawled across the top page of the formal Israeli "mistake" report, "A nice whitewash." · Major General John Morrison, NSA deputy director of Operations at the time: "Nobody believes that explanation. The only conjecture that we ever made that made any near sense is that the Israelis did not want us to intercept their communications at that time." · Walter Deeley, the senior NSA official who conducted an internal NSA investigation of the incident: "There is no way that they didn't know that the Liberty was American." · Director of CIA Richard Helms did not believe that the Israelis did not know what they were doing. -- Richard Helms, Director of Central Intelligence at the time: to Bamford: "Your chapter on the Liberty was exactly right." ... (to BBC?) “My … view … was that they intended to attack the ship and that there’s no excuse that can be found for saying this was just a mistake.” · Deputy Director of CIA Rufus Taylor believed that the Israelis knew what they were doing as well. · Paul C. Warnke, Under Secretary of the Navy at the time: "I found it hard to believe that it was, in fact, an honest mistake on the part of the Israeli air force units.... I suspect that in the heat of battle they figured that the presence of this American ship was inimical to their interests." · David G. Nes, the deputy head of the American mission in Cairo at the time: "I don't think that there's any doubt that it was deliberate.... [It is] one of the great cover-ups of our military history." · “The day after the attack, Johnson confided to a Newsweek reporter that he believed Israel deliberately attacked the Liberty to prevent her from spying. Israeli officials learned the details of Johnson’s interview within 24 hours and successfully pressured the magazine to water down its planned story. “The Newsweek editorial has made changes in the last proofreading of the news item compared with the original version that I was shown last night,” Patir cabled Jerusalem. “It toned down the version by adding a question mark to the heading, leaving out the words deliberate attack, and leaving out the commentary paragraph that said that the leak is intended to free American policy makers from the pressure of the pro-Israeli public opinion.” · Senior leadership of NSA was “virtually unanimous” that it was deliberate, 231. · NSA had an official investigation. Its leader, Walter Deeley, concluded, “There is no way that they didn’t kow that the Liberty was American.” 232 · NSA Director Carter: “There was no other answer than that it was deliberate,” he told Bamford in 1980. 232 · NSA Deputy Director Dr. Louis Tordella. He wrote it up in an official memo and also to a Congressman, George Mahon, (D-TX) 232 · US Air Force Major Gen. John Morrison, deputy chief of NSA operations: “Nobody believes that explanation. The only conjecture that we ever made that made any sense is that the Israelis did not want us to intercept their communications at that time.” When Bamford told him of the massacres, he thought that sounded like the right motive. “What a hell of a thing to do.” 233 · Adm. Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations beginning just after the attack: “I have to conclude that it was Israel’s intent to sink the Liberty and leave as few survivors as possible.” … “Israel knew perfectly well the ship was American.” 237 · Capt. McGonigal, dying of cancer in 1998: “After many years, I finally believe that the attack was deliberate. I don’t think there has been an adequate investigation of the incident. The flag was flying prior to the attack on the ship.” 233 · Tom Hughes Director of INR; · Bobby Ray Inman deputy director of Central Intelligence · NSA Deputy Director for Operations Oliver Kirby; · General John E. Morrison the next DD; · and Lieutenant General William E. Odom, later Director. · The Israeli ambassador to the US said he concluded it had to be deliberate. The only one who admitted it. · CIA official quoting an Israeli source: “[Regarding the attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli airplanes and torpedo boats … he said that, ‘You’ve got to remember that in this campaign there is neither the time nor room for mistakes,’ which was intended as an obtuse reference that Israel’s forces knew what flag the Liberty was flying and exactly what the vessel was doing off the coast. [Deletion] implied that the ship’s identity was known six hours before the attack but that Israeli headquarters was not sure how many people might have access to the information the Liberty was intercepting. He also implied that [deletion] was no certainty on controls as to where the intercepted information was going and again reiterated that Israeli forces did not makes mistakes in their campaign. He was emphatic in stating to me that they knew what kind of ship the USS Liberty was and what it was doing offshore.” · U.S. Ambassador Dwight Porter heard them: “It’s an American ship!” • Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Remembering the Liberty,” Washington Post, November 6, 1991 Now tell me that's a logical fallacy.
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Tom McClellan
Tom McClellan@McClellanOsc·
One of the lessons I was taught early in my Army career was a story about the peace talks at the end of the Vietnam War. A US Army colonel attending the talks was speaking to his Vietnamese counterpart, and pointed out, "You know, you never defeated us on the battlefield." The Vietnamese officer responded, "That may be true, but it is also irrelevant."
Dave Collum@DavidBCollum

BTW-For those who think there is no doubt the US can simply overpower Iran, don't forget that we lost a war in Vietnam fighting against 100 lb guys in pajamas and sandals. Never underestimate home-field advantage. They have nowhere to go.

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Dave Collum
Dave Collum@DavidBCollum·
BTW-For those who think there is no doubt the US can simply overpower Iran, don't forget that we lost a war in Vietnam fighting against 100 lb guys in pajamas and sandals. Never underestimate home-field advantage. They have nowhere to go.
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Stew Peters
Stew Peters@realstewpeters·
This is TREASON. Trump and his entire administration have openly committed TREASON against the United States. It’s time to have a serious conversation about legally banning jewish/Israeli influence from American government and society.
Zachary Foster@_ZachFoster

This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵

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Gary Boddicker
Gary Boddicker@gboddicker·
Good points all. Add to this the risk that Iran itself has not decided to stand down, and it seems this disaster continues whether Trump wants it or not…unless he has the guts to back down the Israelis meaningfully, I.e. not just words, but withdrawing war fighting, defensive support, and Iran is content letting him off scott free instead of turning him into a global pariah for starting this.
@mcm_ct_usa@mcm_ct_usa

The fundamental issue here is that @realDonaldTrump is not in control of the situation. He may want to be, and he may recognize the strategic trap that has been created - for both himself and the United States - but that does not mean he has the ability to exit. In my view, @israel’s strategic priority will be to ensure that the United States remains fully engaged in the conflict and cannot disengage. There are multiple pathways to achieve that outcome, many of which would involve escalation events that can be attributed to Iran. For example: Attacks on commercial or military shipping—particularly vessels belonging to countries aligning with Iran—could be carried out and attributed to the United States to widen the conflict. Destruction or damage to highly sensitive religious sites in Jerusalem, specifically Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, could be blamed on Iran to trigger widespread regional outrage and escalation. A series of coordinated incidents inside the United States could be staged and attributed to Iranian actors to manufacture domestic justification for deeper involvement. Additional strikes on global energy infrastructure could be blamed on Iran to pull other nations into the conflict and increase pressure for a broader war. The pattern in all of these scenarios is the same: create conditions where de-escalation becomes politically & strategically impossible. From my perspective, I do not see a viable path where Israel allows the United States to disengage from the conflict on its own or any terms.

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Scott Horton
Scott Horton@scotthortonshow·
He also bombed Yemen for four years straight, Afghanistan for 2 1/2, moved the embassy to Jerusalem, putting his stamp on Israel's theft of the entire city, recognized their theft of the Golan Heights, bribed the Gulf monarchs to normalize with Israel, setting the stage for Oct. 7, tore up the INF and Open Skies treaties and spent more money than Obama. In his first term. So, yeah, not infallible. But hey, not a Democrat. So at least there's that.
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Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes@barnes_law·
Notice the top 4 political podcasts are those hosted by Trump 2024 voters opposed to the #IranWar
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