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“Iran’s appetite for acquiring and developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them has only grown larger,” Bill Clinton claimed in 1995. “We have tried to stop its quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction, which would make it a threat not only to its neighbors but to the entire region and the world.”
“For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” George W. Bush declared.
“America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal,” Barack Obama promised.
“Here is my message to Iran’s leaders, the United States will never allow you to acquire a nuclear weapon. As president, I will take whatever action is necessary to protect the United States and our allies,” Hillary Clinton assured.
“We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon. Period. Period. End of discussion. It will not happen on our watch,” Joe Biden assured.
“Let me be clear, we will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Period,” Kamala Harris said.
The real ‘period’ was placed by President Trump who cut through 30 years of empty talk and ended the discussion. After decades of worthless promises by presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates, he took decisive action to actually prevent Iran from acquiring nukes.
Operation Midnight Hammer did the opposite of what presidents had been doing since the 90s. President after president had promised to stop Iran from deploying a nuclear bomb only to do nothing. Trump said he was negotiating with Iran even while planning to take out its nukes.
Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, who had been taunting Trump only days ago as chickening out on Iran, are furious because Trump actually kept all the promises they broke.
“We must do everything we can … to avoid a nuclear Iran. And we will be leading the charge to make sure that the Iranians know that they will not go nuclear or face the most severe of consequences,” Sen. Schumer had promised Now he bemoans Trump for actually doing it.
“We will do whatever it takes to make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon,” Rep. Jerry Nadler had boasted. “No matter what, even if it takes military action, Iran must be prevented from getting a nuclear weapon.”
After President Trump actually took out Iran’s nukes through military action, Rep. Nadler furiously urged that the strikes “must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”
“All Members of Congress, regardless of party, agree: a nuclear Iran is simply unacceptable. It is a threat to the region, to the United States, and to our allies across the globe,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi had once asserted. “We must all use all the tools at our disposal to stop Iran’s march toward nuclear capability.”
Now, Pelosi assailed President Trump’s accomplishment of just that by contending that it “risks further escalation and dangerous destabilization of the region”
For 30 years, Democrats and some Republicans lied about stopping Iran. Trump did it.
That’s why they hate him. President Trump once again kept a promise he had made while Democrats, their media, the woke left and the woke right condemned him for doing it. The strikes taking out Iran’s nuclear program didn’t just smash the radioactive infrastructure of death, it also once again demonstrated the hypocrisy and double dealing so common in D.C.
The politicians who promised to secure the border, turn around the economy, unleash the private sector, cut government agencies, move the embassy to Jerusalem, and a thousand other promises never meant any of them. But President Trump, in the teeth of nearly universal opposition from the media and always online tweeting class of influencers, kept his promise.
Again.
The real question isn’t the one being posed by these politicians complaining why President Trump didn’t go to them to authorize a war with an Islamic terrorist state that had been attacking us since the Carter administration, it’s why they lied all these years to the American people.
If they had been opposed to taking out Iran’s nukes, why did they keep telling us otherwise?
In keeping 30 years of broken promises, President Trump showed how untrustworthy the same politicians condemning him are. Operation Midnight Hammer wasn’t just a strike on Iran, but on D.C. whose version of enriched uranium stockpiles are piles of broken promises and lies.
And if they couldn’t be trusted on the border or on a terror state with nuclear weapons, what can they be trusted on when it comes to our national security or any of the promises they make?
The Iran strikes have sent a message to the American people and to China and our enemies abroad that the era of hollow threats and empty assurances are over. Operation Midnight Hammer gave us real deterrence again, not just when confronting terrorists, but China.
A week ago, the People’s Republic of China was contemplating the odds of taking Taiwan and betting that America would do nothing. After a few extremely unpredictable weeks, Xi is much less likely to gamble that a nation that sent B2s from Missouri to take out nuclear plants without any further warnings, leaks or notice is a paper tiger that will do nothing if he attacks.
We are no longer a feckless nation governed by liars and hypocrites whose word is worthless.
For 46 years, Iran had two slogans, “Death to America” and “America can’t do a damn thing against us.” The two slogans went hand in hand. As long as Iran could kidnap, torture and kill Americans, it could safely chant “Death to America” because it believed America was helpless.
Trump buried “America can’t do a damn thing against us” as deep as its reactors of death.
That’s a message not only to Iran, but to China and our enemies at home and abroad. The politicians who broke thirty years of promises to stop Iran couldn’t stand up for our country or keep us safe. President Trump could and did. He stopped Iran and only he can stop China.
A major reason for the persecution of Donald Trump is that he keeps his promises. Others are easier to manipulate.
Even historians that will piss on everything Trump, will have to acknowledge (begrudgingly) that he was a seriously consequential president.
Also; no matter how much some leftist historians will hate to do so, they’ll have to rank Sleepy Joe Biden as one the most manipulated, absentee president ever.
(The jaw-dropping volume of auto-pen abuse clinched it.)
I hear the Auto Pen has committed suicide. Sad……
Trump was a business executive. And that shows in his decision making.
Career politicians, are, well, politicians. They weave and wobble. We just finished with a 50+ year, career, no accomplishment senator and president. And look what he gave/left us.
There will be those “historians” who will stick to the true facts – anything less is contrary to truth and those are not historians but liars and propogandists which are on all legacy and main sleaze medias
Trumpy can’t be bought, can he? He sure isn’t a Biden or Clinton. He actually has honor.
I’d play golf with that guy any day of the week. I’ve never played golf in my life but I’d make an exception for him.
Democrat bridge players want to shout “7–no Trump!,” but they are not holding a good hand, at present.
A biography of Zerobama should be called, “The President Putts.”
VE day, VJ day, the day Berlin fell, and now this great day. I ain’t scared,of no rag heads, what scares me is gender studies majors with purple hair.
Those victory days represent nevermore wars with Germany and Japan.
Biggest traitors in history Obama and Biden assured that the largest terror state in the world, Iran could produce nuclear Armageddon. Add, Killery Clinton who gave weapons grade uranium to Russia. President Obama’s 8 years of bombing the ME whilst creating ISIS, supporting terror Muslim Brotherhood and financing Iran’s ‘Death to America’ is the greatest treasonous act in history.
Bill Clinton gave Red China its space/missile program. Their rockets were exploding on their launching pads until American and western tech exports were approved.
The playing field has been leveled.
It’s been shat on.
About Xi attacking Taiwan: what struck me reading the article is how many times in history leaders have started a war, only to have it backfire, and lead to their personal demise. Xi has a sure thing just maintaining the peace, why risk it all by starting a war with Taiwan?
And his political party is always plotting to replace him with some other tyrant.
I’m surprised he’s lasted this long.
His involuntary retirement is being arranged.
Yeah, exactly. That’s one of the key factors.
Finally a President that really Loves America and all its people.
God Bless President Trump.
We are witnessing miracle after miracle…. it feels like Christmas morning!
And we sure found out who the anti-Semites are!
It makes separating the wheat from the chaff easier for YHVH GOD – the antisemites are all out there after 10-7-2023 slaughter in Israel that antisemitism became fashionable and vogue
With all the manifest hypocrisy from the left about Trump and Iran, I am reminded of a line from the old Noel Coward play “Blithe Spirit” (this might be a paraphrase)–“It’s amazing how many people are shocked by honesty, and how few by deceit.”
Xi realizes he missed his opportunity to invade Taiwan with 4 years of a mentally/physically (sharp as a tac, lol) missing US president! Trump has swung the pendulum to the other side.
China attacking Israel is like attacking Israel or USA with President Trump in office. A huge mistake. Taiwan is ready and with President Trump back in office and Taiwan semiconductors building plants in USA – game over for CCP. Taiwan has a ready military.
The Chinese media is painting a very different picture of this event. But, i asked friends there: do you expect to do nothing about a radical neighbor who has threatened complete destruction of us and others for over forty years. They would not tolerate it either. The radicals managing Iran are pure psychotics. They belong with the butchers in HAMAS.
Sex pervert Bill Clinton allowed N Korea to build nuclear bombs. Now we have to deal with lunatic Kim. Thank God our great President Trump isn’t one of those Democrat wussies or RINO liars.
To be fair to “Pedo Island” Clinton, he had been saddled with what narcissist Carter did by flying to Pyounyang.
Carter felt his dizzying intellect was required & he was somehow still the indispensable executive.
The prick had shoehorned himself in where he wasn’t welcome – a thing the weasel had done to Bush41 & Reaga before.
Keep in mind that Bill & Hillary don’t make decisions on how it’ll affect America. They only makes decisions on how it’ll affect tomorrow’s headlines to benefit them.
So, once Jimmah had inserted himself, Clinton was too afraid to be perceived as the one who “ruined Jimmy’s courageous deal!”.
(Also; it’s at the core of leftist dogma to esteem our enemies as victims & condemn the U.S. as an imperialist oppressor.
So Kim Jong Il was guaranteed a pat card hand before talks even started. Afterall, liberals don’t negotiate to win; they negotiate to atone.)
In foreign policy there is rarely a choice between good and bad. The choice is usually between bad and worse.
Destroying Iran’s nuclear weapons program is bad.
Not destroying Iran”s nuclear weapons program would be worse.
The civilized world simply cannot allow a suicidal, homicidal, barbaric, medieval death cult that tells us every day that they love death and want to destroy Israel, the United States and Western Civilization to possess weapons of mass destruction.
“The civilized world simply cannot allow a suicidal, homicidal, barbaric, medieval death cult that tells us every day that they love death and want to destroy Israel, the United States and Western Civilization…”
Citizens, law enforcement, DOJ, Homeland Security, FBI, etc cannot allow these self same cults to operate and cause criminal vandalism, destruction, mayhem, blocking city streets and highways, violence, graffiti within the USA! This means antifa, blm, and whoever is behind organizing and inciting the weeks long anti-ICE protests that have shut down parts of LA and other cities in USA. No peaceful protests there. Included in indict and prosecute those responsible for lawless LawFare, treasonous sham impeachments, J6 political prisoners. Clean out the halls of CONgrASS of these treasonous elected officials.
Details of the operation and the “strike package”: massive operation, long in planning.
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/06/22/heres-how-they-did-it-n4941064
Which means that President Trump was expecting the Iranian mullahs to be true to form, and he was ready to lower the BOOM on them when they did.
Also noteworthy: the Administration notified some of the Republican congressmen, but No Democrats.
And operational secrecy was perfect — and that suggest to me that the earlier Signal kerfuffle was a deliberate ploy to smoke out leakers and quislings in the DoD. Just a thought….
Planning in advance is another thing that the enemedia criticizes. It has long been the policy to have contingency plans, most of which are never operational. Such plans even consider friendly and allied nations as adversaries for the purpose of planning future military needs.