Trump rejects idea that Israel drew US into war with Iran
Note to all you bigots out there: The war on Iran has nothing whatever to do with the Israel Lobby or the American Jewish community and if you say so, you are an anti-Semite. The U.S. had to twist Israel’s arm to get them to participate. The real reason is that Iran is working on obtaining a ballistic missile that could reach the U.S. and could be ready within 10 years time. Obviously, this is an IMMINENT THREAT and requires IMMEDIATE ACTION!!
Trump rejects idea that Israel drew US into war with Iran: ‘If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand’
The comments follow remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that ignited questions about who led the charge.
President Donald Trump rejected claims that Israel had pulled the United States into the war with Iran on Tuesday, instead suggesting that he had “forced their hands.”
Trump’s comments came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the United States entered the conflict because officials “knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” and expected to become embroiled as a result. Rubio’s comments ignited questions about whether Trump was taking his cues from the Israelis.
“Based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first and I didn’t want that to happen,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday during a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand, but Israel was ready and we were ready.”
The president’s claims appeared to contradict reports from the Pentagon to Congress on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first.
“If we didn’t do what we’re doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have taken out many countries because you know what? They’re sick people,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “They’re mentally ill sick people. They’re angry, they’re crazy, they’re sick.”
While Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have denied suggestions that Israel steered the U.S. into the conflict, which has rapidly escalated tensions across the region, critics across the political spectrum have continued to question the extent to which the United States’ actions were influenced by Israel.
During the president’s meeting with Merz, the German leader told reporters that the two countries had a shared desire to get rid of the “terrible regime in Iran,” with Trump adding that Germany had allowed U.S. forces land in “certain areas,” though the U.S. was not asking Germany to provide troops.
The meeting followed a joint statement on Sunday by France, Germany and the United Kingdom in which the three countries vowed to “take steps to defend our interests and those of our allies in the region.”
While Republican lawmakers largely backed the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran Saturday morning, rising American casualties and suggestions by Trump that he had not ruled out sending troops into Iran have spurred concern from some about the potential for a drawn-out conflict.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?…well, Jews and Uncle Sam…neither will even have a good time. In fact, they will be totally bummed out by their drug of psychotic Power lust.
The various versions of why our USA attacked Iran are inconsistent and embarrassing, which of course discredits the effort.
thinking bout folks like Lindsey Graham who, as I recall, has been described as someone who has never met a war by Israel that he did not like….as an old fart, I have seen many wars over the last half century and I have finally met a war that I actually like very much. In fact, the last couple of days has me chuckling about various things and I feel damned good. What could possibly account for my happy state of mind? …….hmmmmmmm I have also said to folks a few times that I hoped to live long enough to see Israel wiped out…..Lordie, lordie, I can now die happy. But at this present rate of kicking jew ass, it looks like I might live into my 90s, chuckling and smiling at a new world without Jews.
Reminds me of a Jew York Times story a few years ago that I chanced to read. It was soon after many Jews left Russia after about 1990. The Times interviewed a Russian Jew who was currently iiving in Germany. She had emigrated to Israel but said she had to leave Israel because there were “too many Jews.”
I am still chuckling about that one.