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ourmandaveyesterday at 2:24 PM7 repliesview on HN

Again, little to no information for the US public. No approval from Congress.

Calling for the people to rise up. You can't bomb your way into regime change. Are we supplying arms to groups?

Is there a plan beyond pointless death and regional chaos the president would like to share?


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kenjacksonyesterday at 5:03 PM

A plan? Actually there is. This is all part of the backdrop to end US elections. We can’t have elections in the middle of a major war. And if we do have them we must greatly constrain how they are held while we are at war.

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guerrillayesterday at 2:55 PM

> Are we supplying arms to groups?

Yes. The US supports the monarchy, the Kurds and MeK. The CIA was revealed to have armed MeK (despite designation) and my guess is that they do with the Kurds too. The CIA also talks to the Balochi groups as well although I don't know how organized or armed they are.

Needless to say, "regime change" would in reality mean civil war like Syria or collapse like Libya.

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Natfanyesterday at 4:26 PM

> is there a plan...

probably not, outside of making more revenue for raytheon

gruezyesterday at 3:27 PM

>No approval from Congress.

To be fair that's been the case for decades. Trump's hardly new in this.

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thisisityesterday at 5:27 PM

Campaign to move the headlines from Epstein to something else, perhaps?

Ylpertnodiyesterday at 3:24 PM

...In a couple of weeks.

parineumyesterday at 4:30 PM

> No approval from Congress.

I don't support it but there's blanket approval from Congress from the AUMF.

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