Originally Posted by
Bonkey
Wait. Something is really not right here. Just 8 months ago on live TV, President Trump stated the following after US attacks on Iran:
"Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated"
Is he now saying that in just 8 months, Iran has managed to completely rebuild its nuclear program again? In 8 months! Last night the US administration claimed "Iran is probably a week away from having an industrial grade of nuclear bomb making material"
Was Trump's administration lying 8 months ago or are they lying now? Was the first operation a total and utter failure?
More people should be calling these things out and holding politicians to account. No one has learnt from the Iraq WMD fiasco of 2003?
A reality check is needed here.
Does anyone really take anything Trump says at face value? We all klnow by now, surely, that the man spouts random fantasies and bs as the mood takes him and much of it is only tenuously connected to reality. Anyone with an iota of military knowlege or experience shpuld know that any claim of "completely and totally obliterated" is likely to be just hyperbole, especially when issued minutes or hours after a strike on the other side of the world on hardened targets under a mountain with no humint to back up the claim. Indeed that claim was made iirc so soon after the event that I dount even Iran had any idea of the extent of the damage. The limitations of the weapons available and the depth of rock they needed to penetrtate made it almost certain that they would probably achieve little.
Trump spouts whatever comes into his dizzy head on the spur of the moment, little he says can be taken at face value, let alone be believed as factual.