“If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation and we will kill you,” Hegseth says. “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our retribution against their ayatollah”.

As the words “Paid for by the US Government” appear at the bottom of the screen, the ad’s audio switches back to Trump’s call for regime change in Iran in his announcement of the war in February…

The focus of the ad on speeches and images of celebration that all came in the first three days of the war, when it looked like Iran’s government could collapse, raises questions about why the administration is releasing it as the war enters its seventh month and continues to alienate many of Trump’s supporters.

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    This is some 1984 shit right here.

    We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it

    WE DID START THIS FUCKING WAR YOU BEER FOR BRAINS SHITBIRD

    Evil.

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      They don’t seem even remotely able to finish it either, so that’s a fucking lie too. The only truth is that American taxpayers payed for it.

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    “If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation and we will kill you,” Hegseth says.

    But also:

    US Senate blocks resolution seeking report on Americans killed in West Bank

    Hegseth’s rule is very selectively applied.

    And how many Americans was Iran killing before the USA and Israel started bombing Iranian cities and killing Iranian schoolchildren?

    According to Wikipedia about 20 US soldiers have been killed in this war, compared to almost 4000 Iranians, about half of them civilians:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2026_Iran_war

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    Ya know, if I was allowed to I would stop paying fucking taxes

    This is classic taxation without representation, and as far as I can tell having my employer pay me in full (without tax withholdings) is illegal.

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    Given Israel’s wanton killing of United States of America’s Citizens, fuck you!

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    Ummm… The Trump admin and ICE have killed Americans… So…