US military operation

“Especially if Iran or its proxies, the Houthis uh in Yemen are capable of blowing up um an American tanker or a military, a warship uh that could kill American servicemen and women uh on duty in the region and that of course would lead to very significant escalation.”

“That is why in operation midnight hammer last June we obliterated the regime's nuclear program at Ford Natans and Isvahan. After that attack we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons.”

“I don't think anybody that can hear my voice right now is surprised to hear that I think this is all economic in terms of the primary driver. If you look at economics first, the thing that explains why the Iranian people are rising up, why the Iranian regime has to clamp down, all of that, it gets very clear.”

“This is a I think a you know reasonable and attainable scoped set of objectives that will leave the United States better off under a range of outcomes.”

“Well you know you could have uh as I mentioned earlier the refugee crisis. The refugee crisis was hugely destabilized into Europe had a tremendous impact on politics all over the world. That's very impossible. You have Iraq and Syria, Syria, they're only, you know, the 20 million the population and so forth. Uh Iran is 90 million people. That's a tremendous number of people even a fraction of whom may become refugees who would wind up in Europe.”

“They will not accomplish their goal here of regime change through air power alone. So what are you going to do?”

“So, there's a lot of questions now as to whether it was actually the United States and not Israel that carried out that strike. They're saying that there's an ongoing investigation.”

“And um again I think all you have to do is look at both Iraq and Afghanistan. Trillions of dollars uh 5 to 8 trillion I think is is the number. Um thousands of Americans killed.”

“From your perspective what are the limitations in what the US can do if any the US military can do in shaping what the government looks like? I think I think it's very very limited.”

“We're losing service members. are losing major pieces of equipment uh in some numbers uh with this. So, I think we have to we have to stay the course here and make sure we see this through to our military objectives.”

“This is most certainly not a oneanddone strike on nuclear facilities like we have seen before. This campaign will last at least a few days.”

“The designated tasks to the United States armed forces are to destroy and degrade the power projection. The instructions given to the United States armed forces are to degrade the military threat posed by the Islamic Republic.”

“All of this is supported by recent comments made by President Trump confirming that this operation could take up to a month.”

“USCOM confirmed that American strikes are focused on military command facilities, airfields, and air defense capabilities, suggesting that the US is focused on clearing out Iranian airspace and clearing a path for manned aircraft in the near future.”

“the ability of a local you know local opposition stepping up again I I think we have limited options.”

“General Kaine mentioned yesterday that Iranian theater ballistic missile shots have been reduced by 86% and then one-way attack drones shot down have decreased about 73% from some of the early days.”

“We bombed a school, a girl school. We killed 175 people, mostly little girls. Originally thought maybe it was an Israeli missile. Now the New York Times just as a new piece put it together and think that it's in all likelihood it was a US attack that did it.”

“Dan Kaine, who's the US military joint chief's chairman, said that during the first 100 hours of operations over Iran, Israel was bombing in the north and the US was bombing in the south, which is where the school in Manab is located. So given that the US was operating in that area at the time, the evidence seems to be pointing at US responsibility.”

“We have objectives. We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives, and we will achieve those objectives. The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation.”

“Uh, this is two times the firepower that we saw over Iraq and shock and awe. These are B-52s dropping 80,000 lb ordinance.”

“one of the many stated goals of this whole war is to prevent them from acquiring a nuclear weapon. And there is a very strong possibility you've just made it more likely that they will pursue a nuclear weapon, not less.”

“one of the goals has to be reopening the street of Hormuz, you are not going to be able to accomplish that through air power alone.”

“I mean, the latest briefing is it's cost something like $12 billion in just these first two weeks.”

“I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion. Shortterm.”

“Let alone like the idea that we can continue to like bomb places in the Middle East into submission and kill people's families and raise their cities and there's there's going to be no repercussions for Americans uh either here in America or like overseas somewhere. I mean, what yeah, that's that is my big fear”

“Many people would, would argue that. Uh, the United States would not possibly think of attacking Iran if, if there was not the, there was not the, the, the recent protest and the bloodshed.”

“We continue to start working on and going deeper into Iran's military and industrial base in order to pre prevent the regime from uh being able to attack Americans, our interests uh and our partners”

“They're decapitating this regime week by week. They have gone after the leadership, they have gone after the missile systems.”

“We have achieved a 90% reduction in their ballistic missile launches and a 95% reduction in drone attacks.”

“All the strikes have been against the terrorist infrastructure.”

“THANKFULLY THIS HAS BEEN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY, THE U.S. IS USING, WE TALKED OFTEN, NEXT-GENERATION WEAPONRY TO DOMINATE IRAN.”

“An ongoing investigation suggests that a school in Iran was hit by a US missile killing dozens of school girls.”