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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Murphy: I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States
I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
— Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) 2025-06-22T04:58:16.745Z
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

BoRaGard
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Seinan Sensei
(1,018 posts)Ugh.
He was the worst of the worst
A Fundamentalists Fundamentalist
LSparkle
(12,044 posts)Dismissed as a (intentionally selected?) flawed messenger. Intelligence was correct however.
yourout
(8,469 posts)twodogsbarking
(14,088 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 22, 2025, 02:03 PM - Edit history (1)
Oh wait.
IronLionZion
(49,213 posts)red meat to the MAGA base and Netanyahu. Distracts from bad polling on domestic issues like the ICE raids and funding cuts for social programs.
Martin Eden
(14,461 posts)In 2015.
Trump set the stage for what's happening now in 2017 when he tore up the multinational nuclear agreement with Iran.
Kid Berwyn
(20,820 posts)Hes got pee-tapes on everybody, includin Putin.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,195 posts)Like Dubya, he's always wanted to be a war time president. Dropping the biggest non-nuclear bombs on a country we're not at war with is a way he thinks shows he's strong.
Somehow, in his degenerating brain this is the path to a Nobel Peace Prize.
snot
(11,105 posts)but lately it's become glaringly obvious.
lindysalsagal
(22,702 posts)No one would suggest we'd ever bomb a christian country.