From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   On Friday, December 15, 2023 at 10:05:48 AM UTC-6, Lazarus Cain wrote:   
   > In 2025, when Trump assumes power, the US will make a crippling military   
   strike against Iran if the conflict in Gaza has still not been resolved. Not   
   only will Hamas no longer exist, but the political ambitions of the regime in   
   Iran will be altered.    
   > We wait until 2025 because we wish to be assured that the US population will   
   back such a conflict with Iran. The election of Trump will prove that the US   
   backs Israel and Trump will respond much more aggressively in response to   
   Hamas and Iran than    
   Biden ever did.    
   > I am curious as to how well Trump and Putin get along, but Trump will end   
   Ukraine fighting if Putin compromises with Trump concerning Iran, Israel and   
   the will of the US electorate.    
   > Biden's current chances of being reelected are weak due primarily to Biden's   
   weak foreihn policy.    
   > Iran and Hamas have a little over over a year to change and learn to react   
   properly before time has run out.   
   THE PRESIDENT:  As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will   
   never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.   
      
   Good morning.  I’m pleased to inform you: The American people should be   
   extremely grateful and happy no Americans were harmed in last night’s attack   
   by the Iranian regime.  We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are   
   safe, and only minimal    
   damage was sustained at our military bases.   
      
   Our great American forces are prepared for anything.  Iran appears to be   
   standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good   
   thing for the world.   
      
   No American or Iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken, the   
   dispersal of forces, and an early warning system that worked very well.  I   
   salute the incredible skill and courage of America’s men and women in   
   uniform.   
      
   For far too long — all the way back to 1979, to be exact — nations have   
   tolerated Iran’s destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East   
   and beyond.  Those days are over.  Iran has been the leading sponsor of   
   terrorism, and their pursuit    
   of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world.  We will never let that   
   happen.   
      
   Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from   
   threatening American lives.  At my direction, the United States military   
   eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.  As the head of the   
   Quds Force, Soleimani was    
   personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities.   
      
   He trained terrorist armies, including Hezbollah, launching terrorist strikes   
   against civilian targets.  He fueled bloody civil wars all across the region.    
   He viciously wounded and murdered thousands of U.S. troops, including the   
   planting of roadside    
   bombs that maim and dismember their victims.   
      
   Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq that badly   
   wounded four service members and killed one American, and he orchestrated the   
   violent assault on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.  In recent days, he was   
   planning new attacks on    
   American targets, but we stopped him.   
      
   Soleimani’s hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood.  He   
   should have been terminated long ago.  By removing Soleimani, we have sent a   
   powerful message to terrorists: If you value your own life, you will not   
   threaten the lives of our    
   people.   
      
   As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the   
   United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions   
   on the Iranian regime.  These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran   
   changes its behavior.   
      
   In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired   
   an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia, and shot down two U.S. drones.   
      
   Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear   
   deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8   
   billion in cash.  Instead of saying “thank you” to the United States, they   
   chanted “death to    
   America.”  In fact, they chanted “death to America” the day the   
   agreement was signed.   
      
   Then, Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and   
   created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq.  The missiles   
   fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made   
   available by the last    
   administration.  The regime also greatly tightened the reins on their own   
   country, even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are   
   taking place all throughout Iran.   
      
   The very defective JCPOA expires shortly anyway, and gives Iran a clear and   
   quick path to nuclear breakout.  Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and   
   end its support for terrorism.  The time has come for the United Kingdom,   
   Germany, France, Russia,    
   and China to recognize this reality.   
      
   They must now break away from the remnants of the Iran deal -– or JCPOA –-   
   and we must all work together toward making a deal with Iran that makes the   
   world a safer and more peaceful place.  We must also make a deal that allows   
   Iran to thrive and    
   prosper, and take advantage of its enormous untapped potential.  Iran can be a   
   great country.   
      
   Peace and stability cannot prevail in the Middle East as long as Iran   
   continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred, and war.  The civilized world   
   must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime: Your campaign of   
   terror, murder, mayhem will    
   not be tolerated any longer.  It will not be allowed to go forward.   
      
   Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East   
   process.  Over the last three years, under my leadership, our economy is   
   stronger than ever before and America has achieved energy independence.  These   
   historic accompliments [   
   accomplishments] changed our strategic priorities.  These are accomplishments   
   that nobody thought were possible.  And options in the Middle East became   
   available.  We are now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere   
   in the world.  We are    
   independent, and we do not need Middle East oil.   
      
   The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration, at   
   a cost of $2.5 trillion.  U.S. Armed Forces are stronger than ever before.    
   Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal, and fast.  Under   
   construction are many hypersonic    
   missiles.   
      
      
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