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Scott Horton

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Scott Horton on Iran

It wasn't just the Bahrainis and the Emiratis.

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Scott Horton on Iran

It was our guys at those bases.

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Scott Horton on Iran

And they've also, and we don't know the extent of it because there's massive censorship in Israel.

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Scott Horton on Iran

They'll, you know, what they do, they'll let reporters show damage to civilian infrastructure or targets or collateral damage or whatever, but they won't show damage to military infrastructure.

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Scott Horton on Iran

infrastructure which of course skews the picture makes it look like only innocent civilians are being killed and all that but supposedly the attacks on israel are worse this time than they were in june i don't know the full extent of that but and then i'm sorry because i'm rambling a bit but the point the real point being i should make here to wrap up is that

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Scott Horton on Iran

They really should not have done this.

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Scott Horton on Iran

They did not have a coherent plan to do this.

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Scott Horton on Iran

Donald Trump ignored every bit of this advice that was given to George W. Bush back then and that George W. Bush went along with.

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Scott Horton on Iran

You know, Netanyahu tried to bully Obama into this too.

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Scott Horton on Iran

Obama, for the same reasons, says, man, this is biting off more than we can chew, more than we know what to do with.

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Scott Horton on Iran

and you can tell that at some point here despite getting advice to the contrary we know that they had even a national intelligence estimate people say where the hell's tulsi gabbard on this dude apparently they the i don't know actually her role in it but the national intelligence council

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Scott Horton on Iran

put out a secret report saying, this isn't gonna work, you shouldn't do it.

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Scott Horton on Iran

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff leaked all over the place, including the Wall Street Journal, that we're gonna run out of anti-missile missiles before they run out of missiles.

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Scott Horton on Iran

And this is a real problem and we shouldn't do it.

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Scott Horton on Iran

They did that before the war.

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Scott Horton on Iran

And you can tell at some point Trump just said,

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Scott Horton on Iran

Fuck it.

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Scott Horton on Iran

Let's just do it, man.

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Scott Horton on Iran

We're just like George W. Bush, man.

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Scott Horton on Iran

It's like close your eyes and hit the button and just hope it works out, man.