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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-10T20:30:37.721Z
senseandsensibility
(24,794 posts)who warned this morning that ground troops are going to be sent to Iran after leaving a briefing will get the attention they deserve. Whatever Leavitt, Hegseth, and of course trump are spouting is not worth listening to. These guys know what they're talking about.
efhmc
(16,523 posts)lostnfound
(17,483 posts)Wicker said the administration is not ruling out troops on the ground. Hawley said it was large, open-ended and evolving. Both were speaking after the same briefing that Murphy and Blumenthal were commenting on.
lame54
(39,586 posts)awesomerwb1
(5,084 posts)At least he tries
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,570 posts)It's only democracy that's on the line.
Katinfl
(774 posts)PuraVidaDreamin
(4,570 posts)3 day's into a Divertic flare- clear liqs- wicked Headache and
trying to survive the shit storm is just hard, ya know?
RussBLib
(10,572 posts)I've heard of diverticulitis, but not the flare.
Intelligent design, my ass. I'm sorry to hear you are suffering.
Bluetus
(2,661 posts)which is discovered in a routine colonoscopy. When the diverticula become infected, that is no joke. This can quickly advance to perforated colon, sepsis and worse. If one received a diverticulosis finding from a colonoscopy, I strongly suggest an intense program of it management because you really, really don't want it to develop into diverticulitis.
Katinfl
(774 posts)phxjurist
(63 posts)mr715
(3,402 posts)Johonny
(26,043 posts)The minority leader is about holding the caucus together behind closed doors.
The party can use other people in the press.
It's the senate where the caucus seems aimless and so often not together...
Hassler
(4,890 posts)Whooda thunkit?
NoMoreRepugs
(11,988 posts)ananda
(34,953 posts)water is wet.
surfered
(13,037 posts)WmChris
(706 posts)Sure changed the focus so the main objective has been achieved.
cab67
(3,697 posts)usonian
(24,790 posts)Wildly overplayed his hand.
Started (along with Bibi) a mideast war. A few days and its over.
NOT EVEN IN

womanofthehills
(10,935 posts)Exp
(901 posts)Justice matters.
(9,695 posts)A world led by cowards may end up un-inhabitable by the peace-lovin peasants (the rest of the world struggling to live til the next week).
yellow dahlia
(5,596 posts)meadowlander
(5,121 posts)poozwah
(412 posts)did anyone expect anything different? distraction is not now or ever been a good reason to go to war. btw, epstein is still a big thing.
themaguffin
(5,131 posts)GreenWave
(12,569 posts)thomski64
(902 posts)...different way to abbreviate Erectile Dysfunction, now that ED refers to
EPSTEIN DEFLECTION: most of what does every day..
Irish_Dem
(80,862 posts)He wants oil, gold, land, power.
Nothing else is on his radar.
thomski64
(902 posts)..for his criminality. So far aside from the 2020 election loss, only the 13 year old that bit his little mushroom cock in 1983, when he tried to force her to blow him.
Irish_Dem
(80,862 posts)Roc2020
(1,774 posts)incompetent to these five letters. T***P. What a stupid set of people
ShazzieB
(22,491 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 11, 2026, 02:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Let's face it: this happened because he needed something that would give him an ego boost, with the added bonus of creating a distraction from Epstein and everything else he's in the doghouse for. Because the only thing that really matters to Schlump is the care and feeding of his greatly oversized but very fragile ego.
If that means killing a bunch of Iranian civilians and American service people, he's fine with that. He 's a psychopath, so causing people to die has no more significance to him.than setting fire to a stack of paper dolls.
BannonsLiver
(20,481 posts)First they said the casualty reports were lies and were proven wrong.
Then they said the Iranians won�t have the ability to lay mines in tne strait and have been proven wrong.
Maybe �war gaming� isn�t their thing. 🤷♂️🤣
Martin68
(27,570 posts)they were probably ready to negotiate.