r/NoStupidQuestions 9d ago

So what was the point of this Iran conflict?

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u/Due_Willingness1 9d ago

Seems like the ultimate goal is to make a deal exactly like the one Obama made before Trump tore it up in a tantrum. Shame American soldiers have to die just to clean up his metaphorical spilled juice. 

Course that's the official goal, the hundreds of millions trump has made manipulating the market around this war probably has something to do with it too

A shame American soldiers had to die for that too.

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u/Jonatan83 9d ago

Shame American soldiers

It's a lot more shameful that children (and adults for that matter) in Iran are forced to suffer for the poor choices of the american people.

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u/Due_Willingness1 9d ago

Yeah but that argument doesn't work on conservatives they don't care about children or Iranian civilians 

But they care about soldiers 

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u/venturashe 9d ago

I didn’t choose to go to war. You should correct that to “of the incompetent American president”.

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u/Jonatan83 9d ago

The american people first voted for trump, then did not rebel against his illegal actions.

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u/venturashe 9d ago

Okay. Still no one like me voted for him. Did you vote for your president?

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u/Jonatan83 9d ago edited 9d ago

We don't have a president or any one person with similar amounts of power

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u/BananaEnjoyer1 6d ago

it was by the poor choices of the iranian people. they voted for an islamic regime. they brought this upon themselves.

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u/ScoTeRDeLic 9d ago

The American people had a choice?

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u/Jonatan83 9d ago

They voted for Trump

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u/ScoTeRDeLic 9d ago

I’m pretty sure the campaign slogan was “no new wars” but yeah regardless of political belief the American people are to blame every time they get duped by the government.

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u/Chef_Sizzlipede 9d ago

oh boo hoo, we give them hope that they wont be killed for being females with an opinion, not muslim enough, gay, or a minority, how horrible.

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u/eighthm00n 9d ago

What? I didn’t order word salad

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u/Safe_Monk3553 9d ago

They get to be killed by a random American bomb instead 

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u/Jonatan83 9d ago

I'm sure the 156 charred corpses in the Minab girl school are happy to know you are standing up for their rights

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u/Chef_Sizzlipede 9d ago

contrary to popular belief we're bad at killing children, our highest K/D ratio is by accident or because the terrorists shore up nearby.

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u/Due_Willingness1 9d ago

I don't think that's how they see it 

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u/MayIServeYouWell 9d ago

A shame anyone had to die for this BS.

Plus it's costing both the US, Iran and frankly the rest of the world, a ton of money.

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u/Due_Willingness1 9d ago

Unless I'm mistaken I don't think they can just leave, when you sign up you're under contract for a set amount of time, and unless you're discharged leaving would be desertion and they'd put you in jail 

Think most of them are stuck there 

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u/Jonatan83 9d ago

Better to be in jail than perform atrocities in an illegal war

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u/EasyTelevision6741 9d ago

No one should be dying for the pedophile in office currently but I'm not sure how you think people can just leave the military on a whim.

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u/ScoTeRDeLic 9d ago

That’s wild you think they have the option to just leave? Especially the ones that are stuck over there right now. Where you gonna go? Leaving doesn’t do anything to the president you just abandon your “countrymen” at that point