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Yes,courtesy of the dangerously corrupt Dulles brothers and a feckless President Eisenhower.

Oh shit, I didn't know this. I don't even feel a need to fact check this given how many times we've done this throughout our history. Shoot, we just did it a few months ago.

They literally created the current Iranian regime.

Nope, but Pat Harrigan has been an idiot for 38 years.

Really? I must have been busy and not noticed.

And now that we are bombing them, we aren’t at war anymore. Orwell tried to warn us. And we just handed these maniacs the keys to all three branches of government.

Oh the US is COOKED in this war if they’re pulling this bullshit out already.

And Congress has yet to vote on it? Congressman, where is your devotion to the Constitution? Did you not take an oath? I am sure you will be submitting a bill immediately.

Definitely the new lie, I mean talking point, they're all spreading right now.

And Trump was president for 4 of those years before this term, no?

if they really wanted to play this game, they should probably go back even further and say 73 years to go all the way back to the US overthrowing Mossadegh

You’ve been eating Orange wee wee so we’re even

This guy is 38 years old, and he is saying that we’ve been at war with Iran since before he was born. He doesn’t have the excuse of ignorance/stupidity that Boebert et al have. He’s just plain lying.

Great argument Pat. We’ve been doing this for 47 years with no success so let’s keep doing it 🙄.

So no imminent threat.

and he never fired a gun at Iran himself

That must be why Reagan's campaign team made a deal with them to hold keep Americans hostage, and his administration sold them weapons. The more accurate statement is, Republicans have been at war with Americans for 47 years. At a minimum.

Does no one in the US understand current affairs (aka post WWII history)?

If this is a competition to be more embarrassing than Trump this guy is coming in strong.

"We *have always* been at war with Eastasia..."

No we F'ing haven't you morons

The problems for Iran started already in 1953, caused by the US and UK. youtu.be/57fMqUl-sng?...

"We have always been at war with Middle East Asia."

So LITERALLY my entire life????

Love that Trump failed to address this “war” in his first term or mention a single thing about it in his 2024 campaign.

The word is Orwellian, but also it is a Christian Nationalist Cult. They see this as ushering in Armageddon, as they see it. It is not Biblical.

Ah…Orwell knew what he was writing about…

We....signed a peace agreement in 2015.

Netanyahu, said thanks to Donald Trump on monday . This latest assault has been no 1 on his wishlist for 40 years! Guess he just couldn't find a sucker like Trump before

I see the republicans are sticking to their talking points. It’s not going to work.

Ah yes everyone remembers when Congress declared war against Iran in the year 1979 in this alternate universe this guy apparently lives in.

And how did that “war” start Pat? I’ll hang up and listen.

Seems that almost all GOPers in Congress must follow a sacred "Right Wing Manual of Lies and Destruction" (ghost written by Stephen Miller and other soulless degenerates) dedicated to an impulsive, transactional, ego-driven, rotting mad man.

These patchy can’t grow a real beard motherf*ckers

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is that one of those people that hit their faces gently with a hammer

Scary untrue statement

So the #GOP found their talking point and mnow that's what they're all saying. To bad it's a LIE. 1 Congress never declared war on Iran 47 years ago. 2 just because you don't like someone else's Gov't doesn't give you the authority to attack them. 3 you were in the middle of negotiations! WTF!!

Was that before or after we helped give the Shah total power and trained SAVAK to torture people?

Touché

I cannot wait to remove this wart from office

Rep Pat Harrigan either doesn’t know the definition of war or he is attempting to purposely build a distorted political narrative. Either way his ridiculous rhetoric doesn’t justify that first strike.

Rep. Podcast Bro has some thoughts

Because it was actually 73 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

Sentenced to life in prison. That’s worse.

47 that's a very ironic number to say.

O course we have, after all we have always been at war with Eastasia...

Hey,Patty,WE FUCKING SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AT WAR FOR 47 YEARS,YOU DOLT!!!

My whole life, eh?

Wait, then why was Reagan making deals with them to hold Americans hostage then secretly selling them weapons in the 1980s. This math doesn't work, unless Reagan and everyone associated with his administration was a traitor to the USA in a time of war. "We've been at war with Iran for 47 years"

I guess they forgot to tell that to Congress 47 years ago as the Constitution requires.

Mate, we haven’t, I assure you I would have noticed.

actually much longer if we go back to 1953 when the CIA overthrew their democratically elected prime minister

“Are the people at war with Iran in the room with you right now, Pat?”

Is that the talking point they're going with now? Correction:

As much as I am loath to quote Matt Walsh:

Are Beirut, Iraq, Afghanistan in Iran? Really? Does Iran know this? I will not judge 'flat earth people' anymore, really. The future of America is Iran war???

So correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t every service member for the past 47 be entitled to war pay?

what a jackass

there were the early seasons of Homeland

a green beret who loves the taste of shoe polish? what an anomaly!

So now we are back to bring @ war? Bc he never got congressional approval for war and it keeps changing. Asking for a friend.

Not for nothing but the Khobar Towers bombing being Hez is disputed. Other sources show AQ direction.

We've always been at war with Eastasia

It seems like the obvious follow-up question here is: When did Congress declare war on Iran?

1984 wasn't intended to be a playbook

Sounds like Pat needs to reenlist tout suite! He should take his kids with him.

If it's Newsmax, well.....

Wait I thought we weren't at war?

This is Iran not Venezuela. Iran’s ability to absorb pain was demonstrated by their 8 year war with Iraq. Estimates of >200,000 Iranian military deaths and even more civilian casualties. This will not be a war measured by weeks.

Before President Trump and his Republican enablers took the United States to war in Iran, they took a chainsaw to terrorism prevention efforts, leaving us vulnerable to the inevitable terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

This is the clearest sign yet that they have no fucking idea what they’re doing. Had they message tested this lame-ass take they would’ve found out ain’t no way that’s gonna fly. His sycophants can repeat this talking point 1000X a day— nope. Old ppl know this is a lie & young ppl don’t care.

Clay Travis illegitimate brother

Pat Harrington > Pat Harrigan

We have been meeting a whole slew of ignorant Reps called up to defend their dear leader. This is a real problem.

good to see pat signed up to fight in the middle east

Um, no, we haven't. Conservatives have been at war (in their own minds) with everyone on planet fucking earth for 100 years. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to ignore reality.

Reality: No, we have not.

This is why NC is going BLUE!!!

Republican Talking Points Dot COM. Ok gang. Today we're going to float we've been at war with Iran for 47 years and see if the rubes bite. The lie about Israel attacking first then Iran retaliating against the US so we had to preemptively strike did t move the needle. Stay tuned for tomorrow's.

"There has always been a war in Ba-Sing-Se"

47 used to be an inside joke with Star Trek writers.

So they agree that Regan committed treason

“We have always been at war with Eastasia”

Yes…. That’s why they campaigned on that issue,,,or not

They love this talking point, they love saying it. “We’ve been at war with Iran for a long time. We didn’t start it, but we’re gonna finish it!” And also “We’re not at war, we’re just doing combat”! Also it’s be nice if they could articulate what “finish it” actually looks like. 🤦‍♂️

Sad to say that this the member of Congress from my district. I have asked him several times why he supports a corrupt, war-mongering pedophile, but he never seems to answer. It's what every Republican in the People's house should be asked every day.

So this is a war then, and not a special military operation or whatever the hell else they're trying to call it to avoid congress? Which is especially weird when it's congress doing it.

Orwell: boy did I call it or what!?

This match was lit when we overthrew the Iranian government & installed the Shah. Every following action is built upon that. We did this. We broke it. And we appear to be hellbent on doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on that horrendous mistake. Our own Ignorance & hubris will destroy America.

47 years and you still haven’t learned how to pronounce Iran.

Stats to back that up would be nice.

🤡

Who is this idiot? Never heard of him!

The senile doubchebag said today the Obama gave Iran a nuclear weapon through the JCPOA. Stupidity or senility? Or both?

Maybe we weren’t on the friendliest of terms but I wouldn’t say we were in a 1 v 1 conflict until now

This new talking point sure is dumb.

And Dump has created even more inflation to add to his tariff inflation, while recapitalizing the Russian government via massively increased oil revenues. Krasnov is a Dic.

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Double plus good! BRB need to report a neighbor for thought crimes!

Double plus good! BRB need to report a neighbor for thought crimes!

They’ll say since 1947 just so they can use their number.

Fuck that, ¡quiero cubanas!

By this metric then Cuba are legally allowed to launch missile attacks on the US as they've been at war since the Bay of Pigs in 1961.

47? Why not since we deposed Mossadegh in 1953?

We’ve been at war with Iran since at least 1953 when we toppled their government because they got tired of BP stealing their oil.

If this is their new talking point, it is one of the most pathetic attempts I’ve ever seen

He's leaving out the part about Obama's settling the last claim handled by the claims commission established by the Algiers accords and paying the reduced amount in cash in 2016 because Iran had been cut off from the world's baking system. The 2015 peace deal cleared the way for this.

You mean you've been sticking your beak in another country's business for 47 years

The "Sure, Jan" meme is getting a workout

Who the fuck is Pat Harrigan

Narrator's Voice: No, no we have not been at war with Iran for 47 years.