President Trump practically bragged during a joint press conference with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun today that he’s intent on bombing Iran back into the Stone Age, and the job isn’t finished yet.
“So if we left right now, it would take around 20, 25 years to rebuild. Okay? And we’re not finished at all,” he said. “But if we left right now, it would take them a long time. Years—years to rebuild. But we’re not leaving right now.”
From there Trump spoke about “terminating” Iran, starting with its nuclear program, which he had claimed he’d already ended. “But I believe that by doing what we did, by terminating Iran, who’s [sic] very evil people leading that country, you saw the number of protesters that they killed, 52,000 plus…. They kill them like they’re candy. It’s crazy what they do. They treat them so badly.”
“They’re just killing people, just at random. Over 52,000 people, and nobody talks about it. But if I didn’t do the attack on their nuclear sites, or if I didn’t terminate the Obama agreement with Iran, which was an absolute hit on having them get—that was a road to a nuclear weapon,” Trump rambled on. “And our deal will be a wall. It already is. They can’t have a nuclear weapon right now.
“It would take them years to produce it. And we will absolutely attack the new site that they’re talking about [Pickaxe Mountain].”
“They’re in this because of nuclear weapons, and they’re trying to possibly reconstitute a site. We’ll hit that site. Any site where they’re even thinking about nuclear we’ll be hitting it very powerfully.
“Now, nobody knows, except the Iranians, the damage that we’ve done to them. We have done damage that will take them 20, 25 years to recover from. So if we left tomorrow, we had a big success.”
