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Trump administration has still not settled on reasons for going to war with Iran
(www.theguardian.com)
Have the war you voted for, MAGAs.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Well they could just tell the truth and admit it was to distract from the Epstein files.
"Operation Epstein Distraction"
They gave a reason, it's just stupid.
Rubio said it was a preemptive strike to preempt their strike after the Israeli preemptive strike.
Kinda WW1 logic.
Further proof trump and the republicans haven’t had an original thought in decades.
It's actually perfectly in line with Israeli war doctrine. One of the Arab wars was a preemptive strike against 4 adversaries.
It's a special military operation. Looking forward to seeing the sanctions.
I haven't seen any news about this, but my family keeps saying that Iran attacked a US outpost first.
Your family wouldn't happen to be a group of squirrels, would it?
your family didn't write all them lies, they just quote 'em.
US punched first.
I think you haven't seen any news about that because it isn't true.
The causus belli is probably somewhere in the Epstein files, let's all check them thoroughly!
The thing is if these bombings are supposed to be distracting everyone from the tRUMP-Epstein files then why is it called Operation Epstein War?
Epitome of "shoot first, as questions later".
More like the epitome of flooding the zone and getting ahead of yourself
The Han Solo approach
Han shot first, but Greedo was threatening him. It was preemptive self defense.
They are trying to cause an attack on American soil.
Why? Trump has been very clear about his unhinged plan to use martial law as an excuse to scuttle the midterms. The domestic strategies have repeatedly failed, so now he’s going for a 9/11 10/7 gambit.
Americans, you need to take out your political trash now or get out of the country. Gilead is coming.
This is easy one: Trump went to war to get the fact he's child rapist off the front page.
This evil man is just fine with Americans dying to divert attention from his crimes.
Bibi has the kompromat.
If Bibi has a problem, Trump has a problem.
Probably quid pro quo with the saudis for more oil dominance
They bombed Iran to get people to forget that Trump and his circle are mass-scale slavers, child rapists, and traitorous foreign agents.
america is now a vassal state of the israelis. america gives billions to israel. israelis get free education and healthcare. american taxpayers get cancelled healthcare, cancelled foodstamps, cancelled safety nets. why did you vote for this? i really dont get it.
The reason is, and I'll bet a lot of money on this: an LLM told them to.
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"Hey Dario Amode, your stupid AI isn't telling me what I want to hear! I demand you remove the guardrails!"
Not quite. Israel told them to.
You're both wrong.
It's because it's a distraction from Epstein. You're not talking about how trump rapes children. If we go to war, that becomes the focus. No longer putting pressure on trump over how trump rapes children. See, I have to keep typing trump rapes children, because society seems to have the memory of a goldfish, and have forgotten that trump rapes children.
Now, view every action he's done since taking office, and underatand understand that EVERYTHING is a distraction from trump raping children.
Now don't forget this time, ok?
None of you are wrong, this is multiple levels of stupid. The dictator wants a war so he can cancel elections, the other even more genocidal dictator wants more genocide so they cook up a plan. These morons shop it to the white supremacist running the department of WAR, and he gets a raging jesus boner at the idea. So they all sit down and ask mecha-hitler for a plan..
That’s where we are.
It’s because it’s a distraction from Epstein. You’re not talking about how trump rapes children.
I believe we're now talking about how he murders children
Does he murder the children before or after he rapes them?
It's both, isn't it
I believe we're now talking about how he murders children
Unfortunately, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
It's also very possible that the war is a roudabout consequence of the child rape, assuming Epstein was a Mossad honeypot and Israel really really wants the US to be blowing up Iran right now.
I get the sentiment, but war is worse than obvious pedophiles trying and failing to hide their crimes
"Actually, Israelis"
Not really that different
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But nothing extraordinary has happened. Just the US started war in the middle east. Happens every 10 or so years
Bush spent months trying to convince the world that invading Iraq was justified.
Trump didn't even do that.
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There was an article saying it was for religious reasons, military people calling in to a hotline they have to say they were told orders were sanctioned by god or something similar.
I'm not religious (do know a fair but of what pre high school kids tends to learn) but according to the old testament the Christian God(well all same God for participants technically unless I'm misunderstanding my theology) doesn't need help if he wants to wipe out people.
Imagine saying you're on a holy war because Trump says so? That sounds wild even for some of the out there comedies.
Its possible for different people in the same administration to have different motives to do something they both want to do.
I doubt trump is religious at all in any way shape or form. The others though...
Someone high up in the chain made it the messaging, tho.
MRFF has received over 200 calls from more than 50 military installations across all the services since Saturday reporting similar disturbing pronouncements from their Christian zealot commanders.
Soubds like it's pretty unified messaging
I don't doubt that the actual people pulling the strings (I'll say 2025 unsure if it was religious sided but think it was) are quite religious. Trump as usual is the greedy idiot they make this the fault of, mean why would the US elect someone who wasn't really proper leader in charge? So he gets the blame, he's at his end run out his usefulness anyways but enough moves have been made they can't go back now so just push forward.
The rapture dudes are all probably in ecstasy at the moment when in reality it'll leave the world in a worse situation.
Wait typing this thing out made me realize the fault of people is not understanding when we're wrong least the higher ups. So many of us can't stand saying we're wrong. I'd rock to tell the US it's okay to be wrong, take your licks and come play with us again. But they're too ornary.
Personally I hate being wrong it's a knife to the gut. But you know what? That's how I learn to improve. I learn not to be wrong in the future from those actions. Too bad the US is run by someone who can't learn a lesson we teach toddlers.
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Does it change anything if it's a good excuse?
Its a checks and balances type legal thing.
WMD was at least plausible.
This time they can't even point to something.
What I have learned from US superhero movies is that what is important is doing your best and believing in your country no matter what!
Apparently Israel runs the world now and we are their lapdog. That’s why.
Because Epstein was a mossad agent.
“What a beautiful White House! Look at those drapes! And have you seen the DOW?” the guy is senile and his sycophants don’t want to upset him.
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