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Originally Posted by sportsjefe
This definitely helps with the line of thought that it was an attempt to distract from their treasonous behavior, which for the record, I do think is the most likely explanation.
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Originally Posted by cuserounder
It's important to remember that if Trump did want to use military action to boost his approval numbers and impact the news cycle, he could have just significantly ramped up strikes on ISIS. He didn't need a conspiracy, he had an option all along.
ISIS is old news. Most people are probably immune to caring about ISIS at this point. I sure as hell am not scared of ISIS, they are no real threat to the United States. Trump's numbers are flailing badly at this point, he definitely needs something more jarring to cause people to rally around the flag.
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Originally Posted by watevs
seems pretty reasonable to me. I don't really understand why mostly reasonable people ITT seem to have 100% confidence in official explanations to the point of this condescension
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
OK, a "proper debate" about how and why a particular series of events happened requires
1. Competing coherent explanations (you are here).
2. Evidence in support of said explanations (you have shown none).
Thank you for acknowledging #1, we're working on #2 right now, **** just happened last night.
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Originally Posted by seattlelou
My read on WWII is that inaction leads to world wars. We could have accidently killed a few Russians changing nothing. Sanctioning Putin's buddies has greater potential to lead to a broader conflict.
Inaction may lead to war but eventually unilateral actions like this will definitely lead to war.
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Originally Posted by watevs
I'm just pretty surprised to see so many people full swallowing official explanations when this has been an issue for what, 3 days?
I'm old enough to remember the justifications for war in Iraq
I think the 'conspiracy theory' bashing is way off base with the condescension given how little info we really have on the other side and given the trustworthiness of those in power
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Yeah, I remember Iraq, too. Whether or not Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was an open question. Are you disputing whether or not the gas attack happened at all?
C'mon, no one is disputing that it happened, why go there? That's a strawman.