The lame ass words of Pistol Pete of the War Dept…..(sorry cannot take this dick wad seriously)

The nation’s top two military officials gave their first public briefing about the military operation in Iran, and both declined to put a specific timeline on how long it may last, reports the New York Times. (Earlier, President Trump suggested four to five weeks.) Highlights from the press conference with defense chief Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

• Hegseth said the campaign had a “clear, devastating, decisive mission” to “destroy the missile threats, destroy the navy, no nukes,” reports NPR. He also blamed Iran for years of attacks on US interests. “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump we’re finishing it,” he said.
• “This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change,” Hegseth said, referring to the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “And the world is better off for it.”

After a couple of days a sixth American has been confirmed dead…

The US death toll from the US-Iran conflict has risen to six, CNN reports. US Central Command on Monday announced the new toll from an Iranian strike on a temporary American operations hub at Kuwait’s Shuaiba port after the remains of two previously missing service members were recovered from the wreckage. The six service members are the first US troops killed in action since Washington launched “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran over the weekend.

Speaking of the troops…. what are the chances of ground forces sent to intervene in the conflict?

Nobody knows when the war in Iran will end, but President Trump continues to prepare the nation for a conflict that will be measured in weeks and perhaps months, not days. “Whatever the time is, it’s OK, whatever it takes,” Trump said at the White House on Monday, reports the New York Times. “Right from the beginning we projected four to five weeks, but we have the capability to go far longer than that. We’ll do it.”

• Objectives: The president listed four goals, reports CBS News. “We’re destroying Iran’s missile capability, and we’re doing that hourly,” he said. The strikes were also “annihilating their Navy,” ensuring that the “sick and sinister regime” can never have a nuclear weapon, and ensuring that Iran can no longer coordinate terrorism abroad.
• Ground troops: In a separate interview with the New York Post, Trump did not rule out the use of US ground troops. “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground,” he said. “Like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it. I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.'”
• Intensification: Trump also told Jake Tapper of CNN that the airstrikes will likely intensify. “We haven’t even started hitting them hard, the big wave hasn’t even happened,” he said. “The big one is coming soon.”

To be open and  fair….Iranian deaths are compounding….

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said in a statement on Monday that at least 555 Iranians had been killed since the US and Israel began bombing Iran on Saturday morning.

Heavy US and Israeli strikes have been pounding targets across Iran since then, and President Trump vowed on Monday that the bombing would escalate. “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” the president told CNN.

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When asked about the reports of massive casualties at a girls’ school, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it was “looking into” the reports of civilian harm. According to The New York Times, satellite images show the school is near an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) base, which was also hit during the attack.  (That is Trump-speak for who gives a fuck).

Here we go again sports fans.

If all this is successful who will lead once the regime change is complete (if ever)….

Guess who.  The son of the shah that totally crapped all over the Iranian people for decades.

Iran’s exiled crown prince says the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has opened a door he’s been waiting on for nearly five decades. Speaking from Paris, Reza Pahlavi told CBS’ 60 Minutes that he believes Iran’s ruling system is now “bound to collapse” and that he is ready to serve as a temporary leader to guide the country toward a democratic government—though, he stressed, not as king or as an elected official, CBS News reports. “Many Iranians, often despite facing bullets, have called on me to lead this transition,” he wrote in an oped piece in the Washington Post published Saturday.

Pahlavi laid out four pillars for a post-theocratic Iran on 60 Minutes: keeping the country intact, separating religion from government, guaranteeing equal rights under the law, and letting voters decide the political system. He called for dismantling the country’s nuclear weapons program and said he envisions future partnership and peace with Israel. Pahlavi, who has lived in exile since his father, the last shah, was ousted in 1979, rejected criticism tied to his father’s rule and said millions now chant his name inside Iran. He praised President Trump for military action against Iran’s regime but said he does not expect formal US backing, contending that parts of Iran’s security forces are prepared to abandon what he called a sinking ship. “This is our chance now,” the opposition leader said.

Many Iranians?  Who?  Name names.

He does not expect formal US backing…..a total bullshit statement.

With all that said what can we expect with this ‘regime change’?

Barely an hour after the first U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. “Now is the time to seize control of your destiny,” he told the Iranian people in a video. “This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.”

Doesn’t sound complicated. After all, with Iran’s fundamentally unpopular government weakened by fierce airstrikes, some of its top leaders dead or missing and Washington signaling support, how hard could it be to overthrow a repressive regime?

Possibly very hard. So says history.

Washington has a long, complicated past when it comes to regime change. There was Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s, and Panama in 1989. There was Nicaragua in the 1980s, Iraq and Afghanistan in the years after 9/11, and Venezuela just weeks ago.

There was also Iran. In 1953, the CIA helped engineer a coup that toppled Iran’s democratically elected leader and gave near-absolute power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. But as with the shah, who was overthrown in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution after decades of increasingly unpopular rule, regime change rarely goes as planned.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-regime-change-us-trump-israel-khamenei-9cbccdf31b000f535997118df2b60738

This will not end well for the Iranian people….not that their lives were so perfect under the religious crap since 1979.

This war is not about democracy or the Iranian people….it was a business decision….plane and simple.

At what point is this meddling in affairs of other countries?

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