Senator Tom Cotton is the current chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of the strongest voices in full support of military strikes against Iran.
Good morning, and Happy Father’s Day to you.
SENATOR TOM COTTON (R-Arkansas): Thank you, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, I know you are staying on top of all these events.
When it comes to what President Trump has said publicly, he seems to be indicating not just that the U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran, but he’s saying this is not America’s fight unless Iran hits the U.S.
Should it be such a bright line?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, what the president said in his overnight post was a clear message to the ayatollahs, that, if you hit America in any way, whether our troops or our citizens or our ships, for instance, then you’re going to feel the full force and strength of the U.S. military in a way no one’s ever seen.
That’s a clear deterrent message, setting aside the threat that the nuclear program poses to Israel and to the United States, because, let’s remember, the Iranian regime has been terrorizing Americans. It’s killed thousands of Americans. It’s taken them hostage. It still chants “Death to America.” And it’s building missiles that can strike not just our troops or our friends in the region, but soon enough here in the United States as well.
And that’s why President Trump has been consistent for his 10 years in political life that we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. We cannot allow them to have a path to a nuclear weapon with uranium enrichment. That’s the deal that he was trying to negotiate for the last two months.
But, as he said early last week, Iran was simply too stubborn. They weren’t willing to come to the table and negotiate. And I have to disagree with the reporter who said that Israel strikes in Iran ended those negotiations. It was Iran’s – Iran’s stubbornness that ended them.
President Trump was clear about that. And he is still clear that there is time, if they want to come back to negotiate an end to the uranium enrichment program, that he would accept that. But he’s given them chance after chance, as he said.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But, in terms of the line he’s drawing on military force, should the U.S. involvement be purely defensive and deterrent, or should the U.S. be willing to be engaged in these military operations?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, I don’t think he’s drawn that line. He’s been very clear that all options remain on the table to defend our own people, to support Israel…
MARGARET BRENNAN: He hasn’t said that.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: But he – well, he said that for 10 years, and he said it for months leading up to this moment.
He said that Iran can make a deal and live happily without death, or there will be bombing. So, I think he’s appropriately kept all options on the table. He made clear in the early days of this conflict, on Thursday night and Friday morning, that we back Israel to the hilt. There’s almost 700,000 Americans in Israel at any time. So, of course, we’re going to protect Israel, and that we have the best military technology in the world.
And he said that he has proudly provided Israel with those weapons, both in his first term and in this term as well. So, we back Israel to the hilt all the way. But he’s appropriately keeping all options on the table.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But he’s emphasizing again and again, this isn’t us. This isn’t America. This isn’t an American operation.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: So, so far in this operation, we have not been involved in offensive strikes. We’ve been involved in other ways, through our provision of Israel with weapons over the years or our defense of Israel and its citizens and our citizens in Israel.
Now, he has said his objective remains the same, which is Iran’s nuclear disarmament. And he has said that that can happen still through a deal. I don’t think…
MARGARET BRENNAN: He prefers diplomacy.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: And he would like Iran to come back to the table, I think, now that Iran sees that Israel and America mean business…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: … and surrender its enrichment capabilities voluntarily. If that doesn’t happen, though, I think these strikes are going to continue.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But to the point, if it’s really about destroying the nuclear program that Iran has, you know this very well, that there’s this underground facility at Fordow, very deep, under a mountain.
It’s long been assessed that only the U.S. has the capability with a bunker-buster bomb to take it out. Should the United States offer that kind of massive ordnance penetrator to Israel to finish the job?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, I’m not going to speculate about the methods that the United States or Israel might use…
MARGARET BRENNAN: But should they?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: … to protect our own interests.
I will simply say this. It is, as you say, widely known that Israel does not have heavy bombers. It doesn’t have those 30,000-pound penetrating munitions. But, as we saw with Hezbollah last fall, as we saw in Iran on Thursday night, when the Mossad had infiltrated officers and agents and manufactured drones in Iran, Israel has more than a few tricks up their sleeve.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel has other cards yet to play.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, when it comes to differences in intelligence assessments, the U.S. intelligence that was made public in March said at the time the U.S. does not assess Iran’s building a nuclear weapon and that the supreme leader has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended back in 2003.
Was there more recent U.S. intel sharing or intel indicating that there was some kind of sprint for a bomb?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because that seems a very different assessment from what Israel’s claiming.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, unfortunately, Iran enriched a lot of the uranium to near weapons-grade over the four years of the Biden administration. And they…
MARGARET BRENNAN: But that’s not weaponization. You know that.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: They are – they are close to having enough pure weapons-grade uranium for several weapons.
Now, that’s not the only step to having a weapon. You also have to have the weapon design. We’ve seen indications that Iran is once again exploring those weapon designs. And then, if you want to use a missile, obviously, you have to marry up the warhead to the missile. But Iran has other delivery methods as well, through terrorist proxies.
So I think that’s one of the reasons why both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu thought we – things that were coming to a head. A second reason is, Iran is rapidly producing ballistic missiles, both medium-range to target Israel and short-range to target our troops, and they add substantially to those stockpiles every single month.
And at a time when Iran is both continuing its work on its nuclear program and trying to rebuild its offensive missile capacity, that the window to actually stop Iran from entering that zone of immunity was rapidly closing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, but why Thursday night?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, as President…
MARGARET BRENNAN: There seems to be a difference in this idea of a sprint.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, as President Trump – well, as President Trump said on Friday morning, that he had given Iran 60 days to make a deal.
That was day 61.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And he scheduled talks on day 63. You know that.
I mean, this was a – this wasn’t really a hard deadline.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: He gave them 60 days. On day 61, the strikes began.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Day 63, Steve Witkoff wanted to meet with them.
But if this was a covert race to weaponize, though, it – it raises questions here, because it appears President Trump’s offer is to negotiate with the existing regime that is in place in Iran.
Do you support a deal with the existing regime in Iran to stay in place? Do you support his push for diplomacy?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: President Trump has always said his goal is to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: … which means the surrender of its uranium enrichment capability.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But this would be offering them a lifeline, wouldn’t it?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Well, it would be protecting our interests and securing Israel’s interests as well in Iran not having a nuclear weapon.
We’ve seen what happens when they don’t have nuclear weapons. They’re deliberately targeting civilian areas in Israel. We’ve seen their campaign of terror against Americans over the decades. That’s why we can’t allow them to have a nuclear weapon.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: And presidents have said – for 20 years, presidents have said that. George Bush said it, didn’t act on it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, frankly, aided and abetted Iran’s nuclear program. Only Donald Trump has drawn that line and is willing to enforce that line.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But he’s not enforcing that line. It is Israel that’s bombing. As you just said, the United States is not involved in these offensive operations.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: But, in – in Israel, we are helping – we’re help…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you – but do you share the president’s assessment that the way to finish this is through negotiating with the existing regime that the Israelis have called for the Iranian people to rise up against?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: I think there’s multiple ways to eliminate Iran’s enrichment capability. They are today what they were Thursday morning, before these strikes started. As the president has said repeatedly, they can make a deal, or there’s going to be bombing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to move to some domestic issues, but, very quickly, I know in the past, you have said that former officials who have a direct threat against them from Iran should continue to receive security. President Trump pulled it.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: I think we should…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Should they get it now?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: We should probably revisit the threat that all persons face – remember, President Trump faced assassination threats from Iran as well – in this moment of tension, to ensure that no one who worked for President Trump in the first term or works for him now could be the target of Iranian agents.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And that security detail was pulled by the president himself.
On immigration, the Trump administration has decided to pull back its policy a little bit. They are pausing raids on farms, hotels and restaurants. Arkansas has a lot of agricultural business in your state. Do you support this decision?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: I think we need to have robust worksite enforcement.
I don’t think ICE is going to show up at one or two restaurants where they have an illegal migrant working. Usually, it’s unscrupulous employers who have large numbers of illegal immigrants working in their worksites. And whatever worksite it is, whatever industry it is, ICE has to be able to go and enforce our immigration laws and remove illegal immigrants.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But the president has pulled back from that. That was the change in policy last week when it came to farms, in particular.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: I don’t – I don’t think we should – I don’t think we should pull back to any – on any kind of enforcement at all.
I think worksite enforcement in all industries needs to be able to move forward. And I think ICE agents on the front lines need the support of political leadership.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You would want more enforcement, including in manufacturing, including in construction, where it could impact the economy?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: We – we – we should – we should not – we should not declare any industry or any worksite that uses large numbers of illegal immigrants off-limits for enforcement of federal law.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I also want to ask you about the enforcement to date.
As you know, there has been outcry. We’ve seen protests across the country because of the enforcement policies. You wrote an op-ed supporting President Trump’s decision to send in federalized National Guard troops and active-duty Marines to California.
You referred to it as “the threat from the radical left, an overwhelming show of force to end the riots,” and talked about communities being terrorized.
Given the amount of tension in the country right now, is that really the language to use?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Yes, when you see left-wing street militias who are throwing bricks and frozen water bottles at police officers and shooting them with fireworks.
And, unfortunately, you have mayors and governors in some places that won’t allow police to maintain order. The next step is to call in the National Guard. And if the governor won’t call on the National Guard, then the president has to federalize them.
We always hope that the local police are allowed to do their job and have sufficient numbers to do their job to maintain order and protect innocent life and property. But, if they can’t, or they’re not allowed to, the National Guard has to be on scene to restore civil order.
MARGARET BRENNAN: LAPD says they were handling when things turned violent yesterday. They fired rubber bullets, but they said they had it under control.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: The L.A. police chief said last weekend that his forces were overwhelmed, and they couldn’t manage the situation.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator Cotton, thank you very much for your time today.
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Thank you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Face the Nation will be back in a minute, so stay with us.
Why secular Iraq was already Clean Broken? They really should have been helping secular Syria fighting Al-Qaeda who they told us did 9/11, that the Serbs had been fighting in the 90’s.
Syria should be bombed by Israel/US if they want to go back on a Neocon war crime spree. Then do Qatar
Likely a typo. @Sundance meant to type Iran. His editor was probably off the weekend golfing. 🙃😁
LOL…
Or practicing her trombone 😎😘
Before or after we get the plane?
With Iraq?
Is the next act in the play for a CIA backed attack on a U.S. military facility where the deaths and destruction can be blamed on Iran? You know, something that would put the congressional war-pigs in full throated howling for the U.S. to get into the battle. Lindsay Graham and the others like him in congress would be more than willing to sacrifice some American lives in order to drag President Trump into a shooting war.
‘…the next act in the play…’
Are you suggesting that things are not what they seem?
Like, say, the purported WMD that led to the US coalition invading Iraq?
Or, maybe, as with the false claim of a second August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that escalated the US involvement in Vietnam?
Or are you thinking of the overwhelming evidence that the 9/11 buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions, starting the surveillance state leading to today’s Panopticon and tomorrow’s totalitarianism?
ae911truth.org
Didja look at the photos of the recent plane crash in India?
Monster jet, and I say that cause you can still see parts of sticking out of the building.
The aoperently addressed the the issue of jetliners vaporising on contact.
And buildings in India are apperently also built better, as they don’t vaporise and collapse, even if they were’t kit.
You can bet that Netanyahu is going to try to draw the US into this conflict. The only way to do that is with false flags.. American US cities need to be on the watch.
Excellent question.
In fact, we can expect the next “black swan” event or two to result in justifying the elimination of fiat currency (ie. cash) and the implementation of CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies).
Ask yourself…
Who were the primary beneficiaries of 9/11, the 2008 Sub-prime Crisis, and Covid??
If you guessed the international Deep State and their bankers, give yourself a cookie!
A war would take the focus off investigations here at home. IMO, the goal of Covid, which fell short, was the implementation of digital IDs which would have made digital currency a slam dunk.
Is cotton familiar with the no way in hell theory?
There’s legitimately no need to organize a false flag because the subhuman extremists in Iran would attack the us in a heartbeat
They most likely couldn’t carry it out directly without specific knowledge, “permission”, and possible “direction” from the subversive globalist traitors at that ugly center of nasty false flag operations in northern Virginia….
Possibly. Idk how sophisticated Iranian intel is. I know for a fact however that they are an actual legitimate enemy to the US far more than Russia or likely China who are run by rational actors not religious zealots
Someone needs to ask Sea Island participant Tom Cotton whether or not he will get into uniform to do his part…asking for a friend in the military.
He has 2 sons but don’t know their ages. Big-Shot politicians don’t have to worry about their offspring being in a war zone anywhere!
I’m as fearful of what the evil Lindsey Graham is capable of as Iran.
Graham and the Ayatollah are a pestilence on the world who would bring death and destruction.
There are always rational well thought out means to accomplishing the goal of a peaceful transactional resolution. It takes two parties to consider what must be done to bring that about. . . unless war is the ultimate goal.
Tom Cotton is the new John McCain. We will Iraq Iran.
Keep a close eye out for the word “supplemental”.
The MIC is hungry. Very, very, hungry!
And we already know we can print billions without consequence, right?
I don’t know. Cotton doesn’t even come close to being as petty and vindictive as Mini Mc Stain.
That may be true but it seemed that on Iran Cotton was only repeating PDJT statements. Do you think PDJT is the new McCain?
Agree Cotton seemed measured in his comments. Apparently the dog whistle calling the dogs of war was in a pitch so high I couldn’t hear it.
IDK enough about Cotton to judge if he WOULD happily drag us into war or not. But saying “all options are on the table” seems a good idea when trying to get Iran to the negotiating table.
For twenty years they have been saying Iran’s just about to get nukes. Go on, read the article. They sure have a terrible undersanding of time. Hard to trust either the people spouting such nonesense or the people who believe it. Seems a lot like the phrase “anti-Semite” is code for Kill the Arabs and pass me another beer.
Tom Cotton is a Warmonger!
Absolutely!!! So disgusting. You sold yourself out. How pathetic is that.
“For twenty years they have been saying Iran’s just about to get nukes.”
Longer.
Bibi was saying that all the way back in ‘92, just like Gore claiming the polar ice caps were melting and would be gone by 2002.
Israel has deeply penetrated the Iranian govt, including their nuclear sites. Rather than taking the word of our US IC crew, I’m going with Israel’s assessment. That is, they are too damn close to having nukes and can’t wait on a deal with a regime that has yet to tell the truth about anything. I don’t want us militarily directly involved other than a support and supply role. We’ll see how it plays out.
Everyone should read “Peering Through The Fog Of War” by Clarice Feldman in today’s American Thinker.
I think they have no choice and that if they stop before fully decapitating the gov they will be back to the same place in a couple of years.
An anti-Semite is a person who hates Jews and blames them for everything. They’re as clueless as they are legion.
I am old. I have been hearing this for at least 40 years. Produce the Evidence. I don’t believe the CRAP THEY ARE FREEDING US.
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU TREEPERS.
Red China was able to make a bomb in as I recollect 1964.
Pakistan was able to make a bomb.
North Korea was able to make a bomb.
But Obama and Biden regimes acyually DID move them along in the effort to attain a nuclear weapon.
I’ll repeat what I posted on an earlier thread:
1. Does Israel have the right to defend itself? Yes
2. Is Israel defending itself appropriately against the Muslim Terrorist World? Yes
3. Should the United States engage in commerce with Israel-including the selling of weapons? Yes
4. Should we attempt to restrain Israel from defending itself? No
5. Should we send troops to Israel? No
6. Should we pray for Israel? Yes
I would add one more point. Any UniParty NeoCon/RepubliCon who advocates for direct American involvement in this war-including sending billions or trillions in cash to Israel along with “advisors” to help them spend it-should be prosecuted.
Well stated.
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Nice.
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Agree
“ …..including sending billions or trillions in cash to Israel.……. should be prosecuted. “
Looks like you want PDJT to be prosecuted.
Huh even though we do send aid to Israel, and weapons etc since the 50s, it is still only amounts to billions, not trillions. We are so loosey goosey with our pronouncements.
I agree, but I was referring to the posters seeming to want to prosecute PDJT.
You show up to make divisive comments when posters disagree with your Israel First mindset.
Invariably, the ones who want war at the drop of a hat will never get near the fighting nor will their sons and daughters. Lot of arm chair warriors with loud mouths in DC.
You need to learn the difference in defense and offense.
Hear! Hear!
I would tell Cotton and Graham to their faces:
Any American politicians pushing for war are warmongering fools.
There are other options to exert maximum pressure.
Agreed!
MAGA and its allies want to do something positive for this country? Let’s take these two seats.
But but but none that would yield another bazillion ars to oil our mighty MIC and Kongress machinery!
The war-mongers now have the notion they can milk Americans for trillions of $ so long as their sons and daughters don’t come home in body bags.
As of May 2025, B-52 bombers have been deployed to the strategic U.S. air base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Multiple B-52s arrived there on May 7, joining B-2 bombers that had been stationed for several weeks.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/united-states-deployed-b-52-bombers-to-an-air-base-in-the-indian-ocean/
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/b-52-bombers-diego-garcia/
Hank Johnson issues his usual “island tip over warning”.
Syria has an Army?
One that is actually operational and functional?
Depends on which terrorist group we are currently funding and arming.
What about pizza delivery to the Pentagon?
Map tracks US aircraft carrier heading toward Middle East
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/map-tracks-us-aircraft-carrier-heading-toward-middle-east/ar-AA1F2fj3
Senator Tom Cotton DONORS and an Article on His MILITARY SERVICE –
https://thegunzone.com/was-tom-cotton-in-the-military/
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tom-cotton/summary?cid=N00033363&cycle=2024
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tom-cotton/industries?cid=N00033363&cycle=2024&type=C
Weird how they always go to Harvard.
I like the claim of “ Civilian Areas”
🙄 🙄 Reports are -Israel Channel 13 news reported this—
It’s all over the internet……
Used to be that lies would travel around the World 🌎
in a minute. Now the lies are exposed..in a Second.
Israel holds key military meeting in fortified bunker beneath Tel Aviv hospital: Report | Free Press Kashmir
Wait. So, Israeli military hide under hospitals?
🤦♀️ 🤦♀️
Do you have a link to Free press Kashmir article or a more credible source?
They’ve all been considering radiation for a long time now.
Netanyahu in 1993: Iran will have bomb by 1999
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4633272,00.html
Much of the reason they did not get the bomb was due to the efforts of Israel in neutralizing scientists, and facilities.
Remember Stuxnet, for one example.?
I am no fan of war, but keep in mind that the Ayatollah and his leadership have openly stated the desire to wipe Israel off the map with nuclear weapons. I don’t want the USA to join in unless our interests are attacked. In that case, all bets are off.
Tom Cotton is the reason we had Covid lockdowns
That’s just totally nuts 🙂
https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/sen-cotton-proposes-extraordinary-measures-to-combat-coronavirus-pandemic/91-c0de607f-a9ba-43f0-be1b-b8e1a6c2bf06
Tell Cotton to go put his uniform on!
Pro Tip:
If you see this media hack and presstitute vehemently agreeing with a Republican, that’s a “tell”.
Iraq?
For what it is worth:
Russia’s embassy in Tehran working to evacuate Russian citizens from Iran by land – Ria news agency
Russia’s embassy in Tehran said on Sunday that it was working on the option of evacuating Russian citizens from Iran by a land route, Russian state news agency RIA reported, citing the embassy.
This brings to mind that Russia did the same thing in Syria, just before Assad abdicated.
At the very least, Russia anticipates things will get worse before they get better in Iran. If you can believe reports, Iran has (had) about 300 ballistic missiles, in which case, they are nearly out. Meanwhile, Israel has full air superiority, so expect the bombings to continue until objectives are reached: serious decapitation of the military and civilian leadership, destruction of capability to manufacture more missiles; and ultimately, enough control to deploy spec ops that will take out the deeply buried nuke facilities.
So, when will Trump get us more involved in this war against Iran and Russia? It is not looking good for those who want no part of these wars. At some point, Russia and China as well as other ME countries are going to get involved and you can bet they have sleeper cells stationed in the USA to cause havoc.
A lot of empty store shelves in Oregon after a power outage and cyberattack on the largest food distributor for natural grocers and independents, UNFI. Very unsettling.
I’ll bet those sleeper cells controlled by Iran in the USA will just go away if you ignore Iran.
Why not read what PDJT says and does to get answers. Look at what he was saying before Israel attacks and compare with what he said afterwards. That will show you his MO.
I’ve got a simple suggestion for these war-hawks: Step aside from your lofty positions and volunteer to spend one week in full combat gear on the front lines of any of these “engagements” that you are very constantly promoting. Put your body where your talk is. (We promise you a grand state funeral.)
It ain’t me. I ain’t no Senator’s son. When Cotton was asked: “How much should we give?” The only answer is more more more.
How about a month, to start?
While I completely disagree with his warmongering advocacy, it should be recognized that Tom Cotton did serve in the US Army Infantry and was deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan.
“In May 2006, Cotton was deployed to Baghdad as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division. In Iraq, he led a 41-man air assault infantry platoon in the 506th Infantry Regiment, and planned and performed daily combat patrols. In December 2006 Cotton was promoted to first lieutenantand reassigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, as a platoon leader.
From October 2008 to July 2009, Cotton was deployed to eastern Afghanistan. He was assigned within the Train Advise Assist Command – East at its Gamberi forward operating base (FOB) in Laghman Province as the operations officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team(PRT), where he planned daily counter-insurgency and reconstruction operations.
Cotton was honorably discharged in September 2009.”
Many an Honorable serving young man became a corrupt, old fool.
See: John McCain
Yep
It’s getting to be I can’t stand listening to Maggie!
This s h i t never ends, they have to keep their masters happy.
Cotton/Graham can be on the front lines and show us how it’s done. You first.
They all strut like half-cocked roosters…sickening. They’re blood-thirsty.
Cotton has served on the front lines in the middle east as a US Army soldier. His politics stink, but we cannot claim he’s lacks combat experience.
You WOULD WONDER What TWISTED HIS ” BRIEFS “…
Cotton Briefs and Windsey Ready for Battle –
No.
Money…..money…..money…..
follow the money…..
You can bet BlackRock is already in Iran
You can bet they never left…
Ironic. Can’t remember a Chair of the USIC NOT advocating for more war. Wonder why that is? /s
Senator Cotten….warmonger and CIA stooge facilitator. The deep state trying desperately to continue its foreign wars and to drag PDJT into a quagmire
On Iran it seems like Cotton is mainly repeating what PDJT already stated. PDJT was very enthusiastic and praising of what Israel did. Do you think PDJT is a stooge of the deep state or under their control?
I think that the President wants peace and that their are elements of the Deep State- Military-Billionaire Corporate Industrial complex want war and they want war for the purpose of controlling trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to pad their own coffers.
The insufferable Margaret Brennan. She is like the finger nail on a chalk board.
We’ll be happy to strap him on a bomb and give him the Slim Pickens (Major Kong – Dr. Strangelove) amusement ride.
I don’t care what Pence wants. He’s an evil, irrelevant, POS!
If you can constitutional carry…..
or conceal carry better do it…..
and put h-gun on you.….
and a l-gun in the trunk…..
because you never know…..
what you’re gonna need and when.
Is VLCC still publicly traded?
VLCC was an old stock symbol but Lloyds is referring to very large crude carriers (VLCC). They have a deadweight tonnage or cargo-carrying capacity ranking up to 250,000 tons.
Every afternoon, on my way home, I re-fill the tank.
And so the dance begins. They are hell bent on getting Trump into a war.
This couldn’t be about the mid terms could it?
Are you saying that “they” are in control of PDJT and that what he is saying are not his own thoughts and agenda?
His words were very clear & even more clearly … they weren’t that.
That was you.
There are people working today to bring about the appearance and reign in the world of the actual, physical Antichrist.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
Israel is going to take out
@khamenei_ir
I guess we were only sometimes at war with Al-Qaeda.
As Rush Limbaugh use to say, for those of you who live in Reo Linda, the bright line isn’t a highlighter.
President Trump is handling it perfectly. It looks like Israel eliminated all the ballistic missiles and has freedom to fly. The question now is what do with Khamenei. I believe Khamenei will be shipped to Russia and a new regime, friendly to Israel and the West, will be installed. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the U.A.E, Egypt, Jordan and the U.S. will have a big influence in what happens in Iran, which will eventually look modern day Saudi Arabia.
I’m not sure the dissidents will rise again after being burned by Obama, and I doubt that any Sunni Arab state will control the Shia nation. I think change can only come if there is a full decimation of the mullahs gov and enforcement network.
I don’t think Israel eliminated all the Irsnian ballistic missiles. Iran hit Israel pretty hard Sat. night with ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles that the iron dome could not stop. Russia, China,and N. Korea will supply all the missiles Iran needs. The iron dome cannot stop hpersonic missles.
Iran has not fired ballistic missiles in a few hours. Right now, Israel is hunting down Khamenei who is hiding.
Source?
I’m not sure that the point is in Republicans going on these left-wing propaganda shows. Trump was elected by bypassing the MSM and talking to ordinary people via popular podcasters, many of whom have more viewers than CNN or Face The Nation. Brennan spent the whole interview trying to elicit a “gotcha” moment and trying to get Cotton to attack Trump.
I like it when MAGA Reps go on these shows 🙂
But it’s cringe-worthy when RINOs do.
Trump could never turn down MSM interviews, but he handles them better than most people.
Honestly its doubt mode. Has Iran cried wolf so often that we fear what they might/could/ possibly do? Personally, there is so much dishonesty from all nations who are trying to fool the US into fighting or supplying weapons that I don’t trust any of them including Iran and what they have or don’t have. Spies? Why yes but look at CIA and the snakes they are. Who actually knows what is true? Guess my bet is President Trump and his stand against violence.
Israel completely owns Iran right now. The Iranian regime is already fleeing.
Is that why Netanyahoo is begging for our involvement?
Because WE won’t do a first strike against Iran’s nuke capability, and Iran is very close to having them???
Occam’s Razor 🙂
Hand him a gun and ship his worthless ass to the front line. NO MORE DEAD AMERICANS for Israel’s geopolitical interests. EVERY war in the middle east has been FOR THEM. Time to stop.
So Bibi in a Bret Bairer interview, and now Cotton reiterates, that Iran has made 2 attempts to assassinate President Trump.
No such evidence has been released.
So is it true or are we in Phase II of
Russia! Russia! Russia!Iran! Iran! Iran!Trump has suggested himself that Iran tried to kill him.
Ugh. The evidence still needs to be produced on his assassination attempts. Even he still has some neocons still whispering anything to get him into war.
I will need some proof on this one.
The US Senate is owned by deep state and they haven’t met a war that they didn’t like
No surprises there.
Make the CONgressional war pigs declare war. Make them own it.
At what point does Israel pull a “USS Liberty” and covertly attack a US Base in order to draw us into the war? Asking for a friend.
Excerpts from an Armstrong Economics article: “Why Assassinations Fail in War”
”Trump Vetoes Israeli Plan to Kill Irn’s Supreme Leader, Official Tells AP”
FTA: The assassination of a head of state during wartime carries severe, often catastrophic dangersthat frequently backfire strategically, politically, and morally. Killing the Supreme Leader will transform him into a martyr, which would most likely unify fractured populations and harden resistance against Israel and the West. For example, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ignited WWI. Such assassinations often lead to surges in public support after the fact. The same took place with the assassination of Julius Caesar, stabbing him 23 times.
The assassination of the Supreme Leader would only result in a power vacuum and unintended consequences, resulting in global chaos. This could easily be taken as a religious war. Removing centralized authority can also fragment command structures, leading to warlordism, civil conflict, or extremist takeovers (e.g., Libya post-Gaddafi). This complicates peace efforts and the delivery of humanitarian aid. There would be nobody to negotiate peace with.
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The US president himself has attempted to make reversing US interventionism a key part of his legacy”
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That last sentence is key. It begs the question: How can PT advocate/participate in elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader after he just made his very strong speech in Saudi Arabia on his ME trip that the US intervention/CIA-gubmint—toppling days are over.
No boots on the ground or the air against Iran or he’ll erase credibility which these neocons are more than happy to do for him.
Why do you have to bury a nuclear facility that is claimed to be for peaceful power generation purposes hundreds of feet underground? Why do you need large rockets? Are they for delivering dates to market?
To protect it from the terrorists in Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu apparently thinks he can finish the war. It is no longer Israel by itself, on a map of uniform hostility in the Middle East. President Trump led the diplomacy which created the Abraham Accords. Now relations between Israel and a number of Middle East states have been normalized, with more accords on the way. This is the trend, against which Iran is making war.
The Oct. 7 massacre did not just threaten Israel. It threatened all the regional states in accord with Israel as well. This attack would have raised fears in the Gulf States, in Saudi, in Egypt and Morocco, and Sudan. So, we are told Iran was behind the attack, and we are told Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb. It isn’t difficult to believe that, given the actions and reactions of the Iranian regime.
Historians will argue what started a war, often not the first strike, as sparks burst into flames in their own time. Now that this war is begun, it must be ended quickly, before other, greater nations are drawn in. The Iranian people will once again have opportunity to emerge on the streets with a cardboard Statue of Liberty. This time we can hope the regime will not again crush them.
OK Cotton, why do you think they chant “Death to America”? It couldn’t have anything to do with our backing an illegitimate country, could it? Nah of course not. Far far too many of our politicians are in the thrall of the toxic ideology of zionism. Every place on earth has been occupied by one group or another throughout history. That doesn’t entitle any one group to claim an area in perpetuity. And to be clear, that doesn’t mean I support any of the countries in the area. We should not support any UN created “country” or involve ourselves in their wars.