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Quote (umade @ Jan 30 2017 08:19pm)

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The Democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an Obama A.G.

LOL

Think he meant O.G.

Quote (GuyLadouche @ Jan 31 2017 02:28am)

do you know how to read graphs?

Origin of foreign jihadists in IRAQ and SYRIA

pretty sure those 2 made the list?

And the others? :bonk:

Iran being on the list but not Saudi Arabia is just imbecilic (actually, just Trump's greed).

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Jan 31 2017 07:55am

Quote (Voyaging @ Jan 31 2017 08:08am)

Think he meant O.G.

And the others? :bonk:

Iran being on the list but not Saudi Arabia is just imbecilic (actually, just Trump's greed).

Think it is funny that the alt-right elected a twitter troll.

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Jan 31 2017 08:10am

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Jan 31 2017 08:15am

Quote (Voyaging @ Jan 31 2017 08:08am)

And the others? :bonk:

Iran being on the list but not Saudi Arabia is just imbecilic (actually, just Trump's greed).

No, the Saudis are much more strategically important for us. How are smart people like yourself not understanding this?

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Jan 31 2017 08:20am

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 31 2017 09:15am)

No, the Saudis are much more strategically important for us. How are smart people like yourself not understanding this?

Iran isn't strategically important to us?

Also, they didn't attack us on September 11th like a group of Saudis did.

He has no rationale.

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Jan 31 2017 08:27am

Quote (Skinned @ Jan 31 2017 09:20am)

Iran isn't strategically important to us?

Also, they didn't attack us on September 11th like a group of Saudis did.

He has no rationale.

Iran is an adversary in the region... they just violated a UN resolution by missile testing.

It's some grand coincidence that the most strategically valuable countries weren't on the list?

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Jan 31 2017 08:34am

Quote (IceMage @ 31 Jan 2017 10:27)

Iran is an adversary in the region... they just violated a UN resolution by missile testing.

It's some grand coincidence that the most strategically valuable countries weren't on the list?

you think anyone here knows this? most are far too busy fainting about drumpf sacking insubordinate federal employees

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Jan 31 2017 08:40am

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 31 2017 08:27am)

Iran is an adversary in the region... they just violated a UN resolution by missile testing.

It's some grand coincidence that the most strategically valuable countries weren't on the list?

I mean, if Trump was framing it that way, then I'd hazard a guess most of his critics would give him a pass on it. But he's not as far as I've seen.

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Jan 31 2017 08:43am

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jan 31 2017 09:40am)

I mean, if Trump was framing it that way, then I'd hazard a guess most of his critics would give him a pass on it. But he's not as far as I've seen.

They're just trying to avoid the "so the strategic interests in the region are worth endangering the lives of Americans?" line.

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Jan 31 2017 08:45am

Quote (IceMage @ Jan 31 2017 09:27am)

Iran is an adversary in the region... they just violated a UN resolution by missile testing.

It's some grand coincidence that the most strategically valuable countries weren't on the list?

I won't claim to be an expert on Middle East geopolitics, but that seems exaggerated.

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