"Top CounterTerrorism Official Kent Resigns Over Trump's Iran War, Says Iran Poses No
Imminent Threat"...
...from the linked AP Article...
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“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement posted on social media, making claims President Donald Trump has denied.
Kent, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote. As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, he was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.
His resignation reflects unease within Trump’s base about the war and shows that questions about the justification for the use of force in Iran extend to at least one senior member of Trump’s Republican administration.
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Link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-kent-resignation-e2e17a76d79617a68370f076c0291208
Replies to: "Top CounterTerrorism Official Kent Resigns Over Trump's Iran War, Says Iran Poses No
He acts like Trump had no choice somehow
As if none of this is really Trump’s fault.
Abject nonsense.
I agree that that is abject nonsense. This was Trump's call. Crazy to think otherwise.
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Several outlets reporting that Kent not in briefings discussing the threat.
Speaker Johnson (member of Gang of 8 in all the briefings) mentioned that Kent is wrong to say there was no imminent threat.
Believe whom you want.
I'll stipulate that Kent is a wacko...(still believes DJT won the 2020 election)...but for someone
like him to resign over this shows deep fractures in MAGAland...I suspect his anti semite bias got the 'best' of him.
btw, have you found a coherent justification for this War/Incursion yet? None of our allies have, and they are certainly affected. This could be DJT's 'Waterloo' moment that makes an Impeachment vote next year very close.
85-90% of MAGA support DJT and the Iran war. There is no split.
Media seeks out RINOs and call it a day. Let's do a poll now of likely voters of both parties and Independents without a leading poll question.
This is correct. The cult has not budged.
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I agree that MAGA is fractured on this issue. I've said that before.
I think Chris is the one who said MAGA was not fractured.
If Kent is an antisemite, then the Dems will indeed welcome him into the fold. (The only thing I know about him is that he resigned this morning.)
Do we need a justification more than prevention of nuclear war and terrorism. I don't think so. Impeaching a president for doing the exact same thing Obama did?...yeah, that sounds like something the Democrats would do. Who cares about the Constitution; political power for your party is all that counts.
Obama did exact same thing?...please explain...
As for Trump being impeached...he lit the fire of uranium enrichment to weapons grade by pulling us out of the JCPOA...and now you give him kudo's for going to war over it?...that's never going to fly.
Again...ad infinitum?...the JCPOA protected us w/o a single shot being fired...read the article I provided which debunks all the myths re the JCPOA...fully...and carefully.
Ugh. I've posted before on this. Or do you deny that Obama bombed any countries?
JCPOA would have been over by now, right?...so Iran would have had the right to pursue nuclear weapons by now. And stop bringing up that insane thing, unless you enjoy pointing out that Obama was paying Iran to build nukes. Imagine if Trump released Russian funds to Russia...would you just say, "Well, it was Russia's money." No, you wouldn't. So stop doing that with regard to Obama. Everyone sees through it, no matter how many times you mention it.
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