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Who Wants War with Iran -- and Why?
by Pat Buchanan
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Senate Passes Tax Bill
After Debating for Over 10 Hours
by Mary Chastain
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The Senate has passed the tax bill by a simple majority, 51-48. However, before it goes to President Donald Trump... the House must revote on it due to a few provisions that violated Senate rules. Sen. RINO-John McCain (R-AZ) did not vote since he has returned to Arizona following a round of treatment. Sen. RINO-Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) came out today as a yes, which means the bill should pass along party lines. Yes, Democrats. The middle class will receive a tax cut. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation said that those in the middle class “will get $61 billion in tax cuts in 2019.” From The Wall Street Journal... https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/12/live-senate-voting-for-tax-reform-bill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29.
Rep. Jim Jordan: I’m Convinced FBI
Tried to Stop Trump From Being President
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House Panel Interviews RINO-McCain
Associate Who Handled The Trump Dossier
by CHUCK ROSS
{dailycaller.com} ~ The House Intelligence Committee met Tuesday with a key figure a RINO-John McCain associate who handled the infamous anti-Trump dossier... compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. David Kramer, a former State Department official, was interviewed by the committee Tuesday morning, The Hill reported. Kramer has been at the center of the dossier saga since January, when BuzzFeed News published the salacious document online... http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/19/house-panel-interviews-mccain-associate-who-handled-the-trump-dossier/?utm_medium=email.
Europe's "Arab Street" Rises Up
by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It is now a fortnight since President Trump made his historic announcement about the status of Jerusalem... The speech which announced that America would drop the pretence that Jerusalem is not the capital of the State of Israel was relayed live around the world. Across the major networks and the world's front pages the response was almost unanimous. They proclaimed this a major foreign policy blunder which would lead to any number of problems including -- many predicted -- an immediate "third intifada." The world's cameras immediately turned to Bethlehem where a small group of enterprising Palestinians burned an American flag for the cameras. The Friday immediately following the announcement might have been a flashpoint, tempers being famously frayed after the act of afternoon worship. And yet, as the BBC's veteran reporter Jeremy Bowen tweeted from the scene, "At Damascus Gate in Jerusalem press pack outnumbering demonstrators." The fabled "Arab Street" had been meant to rise up. And it did rise up. But not in the Arab world... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11570/europe-arab-street.
Gowdy: Strzok’s Anti-Trump Text Messages
Show Clear and ‘Unprecedented’ Bias
by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Congressman Trey Gowdy laid into FBI agent Peter Strzok over his anti-Trump text messages... saying they showed a clear and “unprecedented” level of bias “you rarely see” from FBI officials. Strzok, a key player in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s original Russia probe, had to be ‘reassigned’ after sending the biased messages to his girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. The pair exchanged messages about then-candidate Trump, referring to him as a “douche” and a “f***ing idiot.” What really drew the ire of Gowdy however, was a particular message discussing an “insurance policy” to eliminate Trump from the presidency should he go on to win... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/gowdy-fbi-bias-strzok/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_12_20_2017&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI.
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Who Wants War with Iran -- and Why?
{townhall.com} ~ In the run-up to Christmas, President Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of some surprisingly good news and glad tidings.
Sunday, Vladimir Putin called to thank him and the CIA for providing Russia critical information that helped abort an ISIS plot to massacre visitors to Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Monday found polls showing Trump at his highest in months. Stocks soared 200 points at the opening bell in anticipation of pre-Christmas passage of the Republican tax bill. The Dow has added a record 5,000 points in Trump's first year.
And the Russiagate investigation may have busted an axle. Though yet unproven, charges are being made that Robert Mueller's sleuths gained access to Trump transition emails illicitly.
This could imperil prosecutions by Mueller's team, already under a cloud for proven malice toward the president.
Recall: Daniel Ellsberg, who delivered the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, walked free when it was learned that the White House "Plumbers" had burgled his psychiatrist's office.
With things going Trump's way, one must ask:
What was U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley doing last week at what looked like a prewar briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in D.C.?
Looming behind Haley was part of what was said to be an Iranian missile fired at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
Though the rocket had Iranian markings, it was not launched from Iran, or by Iranians. Houthi rebels, for two years victims of a savage war waged by the Saudis -- using U.S.-made planes, missiles, bombs and drones -- say they fired it at the Riyadh airport in retaliation for what the Saudis have done to their people and country.
If so, it was a legitimate act of war.
Indeed, so great is the Yemeni civilian suffering from a lack of food and medicine, and from malnutrition and disease, Trump himself has told the Saudis to ease up on their air, sea, and land blockades.
As there is no evidence as to when the Houthis acquired the missile, or where, the question arises: What was Haley's motive in indicting Iran? Was this part of a new propaganda campaign to drum up support for America's next big Mideast war?
There are reasons to think so.
Haley went on: "It's hard to find a conflict or a terrorist group in the Middle East that does not have Iran's fingerprints all over it."
But Iran is Shiite, while al-Qaida, which brought down the twin towers, aided by 15 Saudi nationals, is Sunni. So, too, are ISIS, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabab in Somalia and Islamic Jihad. Most Mideast terrorist groups are Sunni, not Shiite.
As for these Mideast "conflicts," which did Iran start?
We started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. NATO started the war in Libya. The U.S. helped trigger the horrific Syrian civil war by arming "rebels." Only when President Bashar Assad looked like he was about to fall did Russia and Iran intervene on his side.
As for the "Shiite crescent," from Tehran to Bagdad to Damascus to Beirut, who created it?
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