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Miles Archer

(23,395 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 10:59 PM Mar 23

"We oblitted them. That doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that."

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
COLLINS: If you obliterated their nuclear sites last summer, then how can you argue it was an imminent threat now?

TRUMP: Oh, we hit them so hard. We oblitted them-- obliterated them. But that doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that.

COLLINS: If you obliterated their nuclear sites last summer, then how can you argue it was an imminent threat now?

TRUMP: Oh, we hit them so hard. We oblitted them-- obliterated them. But that doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-23T14:08:20.791Z
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"We oblitted them. That doesn't mean with the right equipment you can't dig down and go get it. We don't want that." (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 23 OP
"Oblitted"??? 3catwoman3 Mar 23 #1
How many times can a country be "oblitted "? He tried to sell us that one a couple of months ago Deuxcents Mar 23 #2
At first he was obliterating the nuclear program, until he wasn't. Beartracks Mar 23 #4
"Dig down and go get it" Beartracks Mar 23 #3
Nice work on that obllition, Chump. Go get yourself a cofeve Hassler Mar 24 #5
So he's not even blaming Iran. He's blaming himself for not oblitting them enough. unblock Mar 24 #6
He has verbal word salad sakabatou Mar 24 #7

Deuxcents

(27,016 posts)
2. How many times can a country be "oblitted "? He tried to sell us that one a couple of months ago
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:39 PM
Mar 23

And now we did it again?

Beartracks

(14,620 posts)
3. "Dig down and go get it"
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 11:41 PM
Mar 23

So, their entire national nuclear research program was just... buried under some rubble and dirt at some place or other?

I don't think that's how total oblittion works. Or how one would recover a program from such oblittion.

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