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KAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves COLLINS: You think Iran needs to be able to defend itself? MARSHALL: I do, otherwise we turn this into a forever war

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Mind you, Iran was 'obliterated' a couple of times during this war. So I am not sure who needs to be able to defend themselves or who exactly we are ok with having missiles.

So we destroyed their military (several times apparently) because we wanted to open the Strait (which was open until we attacked) but whoops they need those missiles to defend themselves (from us? I guess?) so let's give them more missiles. A+, Excellent War, Would War Again

but Obama capitulated to them, or so they said We're never not going to hear about the slush fund, yet this is manifestly 10x worse. a terrible timeline indeed

It's crazy to see such clear-eyed diplomacy about Iran's missiles yet the GOP remain delusional on every other topic. Maybe stop waging forever wars on trans and gay rights? No more wars on black people? Just a thought I'll put out there for them.

I don’t know. There’s been times I’ve thought to myself “Why shouldn’t Iran have a bomb? It’s assumed Israel has one; I thought deterrence was a thing. It’s worked for India and Pakistan so far.”

These MFers went to war claiming Iran’s missiles were a conventional shield that allowed them to build nuclear weapons. They are on tape repeating that claim over and over again. Play those videos back to them.

Translation: This is all nonsense that Trump's spouting, of course. But I saw what happened to John Cornyn for less, so I'm going to repeat whatever nonsense Trump's saying today. And then say the new, contradictory thing he says tomorrow.

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At the risk of stating the obvious, it seems like the only people Iran needs to defend themselves from are Republicans. So you attack them then give them missiles to defend themselves... against yourself...🤯

Only in unconditional surrender can you dictate terms to the vanquished, this administration hasn’t been able to get even a conditional surrender or ceasefire agreement on terms that are the same or better than what was in place before they started the aggression.

For some reason, what's striking me more than anything the last few weeks, now that Trump is so far into his dementia, is how much every single other Republican just makes shit up.

Iran has threatened Israel with annihilation long ago. Iran has ko business having nukes. Turns out they can win with the US using a bunch of sea mines and cheap drones.

Yea there’s a slight difference here between a democratic state that’s our ally and a fascist theocracy that is committed to a world end doctrine but hey don’t let me distract you from the trough

Writer's Room at The Onion, "FUUUUUCK!!!" "GOP beat us to the punchline, again?" "Our enemies must have missiles to end forever wars! We were ONE HOUR from print, and the said it almost word for word! Fuck, fuck fuckity fuckfuckfuck!"

… Iran has to defend themselves so they need missiles?? Didn’t we destroy their missiles already?? And from whom do they need to defend themselves??? Christ on the cross, the whiplash of the 180s these people do is giving me a headache.

A total & complete surrender by Trump. JUST ADMIT IT REPUBLICANS! *An under-reported admission from Trump: His illegal war would have driven the USA into a major Depression! He sold it as if he was saving us from that crisis BUT HE CAUSED IT ALL! Somebody rub that "Buck" into his orange face!

This becomes a "forever war" if we don't make it impossible for them to defend themselves? This guy is just putting words into a sentence with no concern that they make any kind of sense.

Just 4 days ago, Marshall - along with EVERY OTHER R IN CONGRESS - would have said "No missiles, no uranium -- NADA!" But now that fearless leader says Iranian missiles are OK (to defend themselves from our core ME ally, Saudia Arabia!!), they're all down with it. Such craven wafflers.

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey where the "Israel has the right to defend itself" crowd imparts this attribute onto a country they've previously declared a terrorist nation.

What was accomplished in Iran - the existing uprising was put down - universities, where revolt was being organized, were destroyed - roads and bridges that connected cities to rural areas were destroyed stopping g spread of info and revolt - American munitions were exhausted

Huh, I figured comprehensive, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement would have been the goal here. I know that phrase is associated with North Korea, but I assumed it would apply to Iran as well. But they’re doing as they’re told

The main problem preventing this (other than cowardly corporations running news operations for profit, obviously) is that most reporters in this country these days seem to be less intelligent and less knowledgeable than the morons they are interviewing.