"Rubio-an" there's no way to summarize how f'ing stupid this is (official text)

[underpants]

SECRETARY RUBIO: The United States conducted this operation with a very clear goal in mind. I haven’t gotten a chance to see a lot of reporting. I don’t understand what the confusion is. Let me explain it to you, and I’ll do it once again as clearly as possible. Perhaps you’ll report it that way.

QUESTION: Does Congress have to weigh in? Does Congress have to weigh in? Is the President declaring war, and does Congress have to weigh in?

SECRETARY RUBIO: No. Well, what —

QUESTION: And was there an imminent threat? Did you tell lawmakers that there was an imminent threat?

SECRETARY RUBIO: There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked – and we believe they would be attacked – that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked – and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us – we would suffer more casualties and more deaths. We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage. Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen and we didn’t act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life.


https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/03/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks-to-press-6


In which the sitting Secretary of State of the United States of America admits that at 6 American soldiers have been killed and 18 seriously wounded because Israel decided to strike Iran and forced our hand.

This is an absolutely jaw-dropping admission.


@SecRubio: "The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."

Link to tweet

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[Autumn]

1. So his excuse for this action is Israel ate our homework?

[underpants]

4. I think Israel was GOING to eat our homework

So we went ahead and did their homework for them

[Volaris]

8. Yep bibi put trump on a leash and took him out for a fucking walk.

[underpants]

9. No doubt about that.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221063775

[wnylib]

39. Trump was entirely willing to partner with Israel

because Trump wants all hostile parties in the Middle East subdued before he starts construction on his luxury resort on Gaza.

[yellow dahlia]

28. Bingo!

[UpInArms]

2. Stupid stupid stupid

It’s Iran fault because we knew they would hit us back.

Always blaming the victim

[underpants]

5. Abusive relationship

You’re lucky I haven’t taken off my belt…yet

[UpInArms]

7. They started it when they hit me back

🫠

[joshdawg]

33. That got a chuckle.

[yellowcanine]

3. So Rubio just blamed Israel for the war.

Okay he is probably right in the way a stopped clock is right twice a day. But he just stepped in a lot of MAGAT doo doo which he will not be able to clean off his presidential aspiration boots. JD Vance is smiling.

[underpants]

6. This is how movies with wormholes and time portals get in trouble

The viewer can’t figure out where we are and if something that just happened will cause something else to happen or if it’s because something else happened to cause this.

…but this ain’t a f’ing movie.

[D_Master81]

10. Netenyahu finally got an idiot puppet

Israel has been wanting to do this for decades. Netenyahu has said for 20 years Iran was about to cross a red line on getting a nuke. He finally had a willing puppet and convinced Trump to go along with this.

[Katinfl]

11. What the hell is he on? He seemed to be all hyped up on something.

[LuvLoogie]

17. He's coked up again, probably.

Did you see that press briefing he did a few weeks back? Sniffing, wiping his nose, licking his gums.

[flashman13]

18. I would agree. He certainly acts like he is coked up. He is not normally a fast talker.

[Nasruddin]

12. And this is the smart one

We are going to treasure these moments now, when someday Marco Bonaparte becomes our ruler.

[PatSeg]

13. People should have seen this coming

when Trump changed the "Department of Defense" to the "Department of War". That pretty much said it all.

So much for "no more new wars". He lies about everything.

[Linda ladeewolf]

14. The whole point is that

We must sacrifice American lives on the altar to save Israeli lives because their lives are worth more than American lives. So saith the religious right. The other point is that the religious right wants Armageddon so Jesus will come back and take them all away from this earth that they’ve corrupted. On the other hand the billionaires backing the war see dollar signs.

[William Seger]

15. By that criteria, who else are we going to attack? (nt)

[Solly Mack]

16. More bullshit "preemption".

Lies, lies, and more lies.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

19. "This is an absolutely jaw-dropping admission." I have to respectfully disagree, because I don't think...

...it was an admission at all--but a made up story that they got together and decided would sell better to the American people after six service members died--something they did not really anticipate. So hey, let's come up with a reason that it would have been much worse and the six dead don't seem so bad. It could have been 6,000--so there....

It looks like clearly both Israel and Saudi Arabia had been lobbying the U.S. to strike Iran for months. And it is no mistake that our carriers moved so quickly to be in the region--the USS Gerald R. Ford coming all the way from Venezuela.

If the truth comes out I believe this story will fall apart like Turnip's marriages.

Israel doesn't do anything without the approval of its biggest ally and benefactor. Why would it?

The story that Israel was going to strike against our wishes and put American forces in harm's way is absolutely prosperous.

The Administration chose this war, and now they do not want to live with the consequences. But when do they ever?

[leftstreet]

23. It's treason. Acting under influence of a foreign govt

Esssentially

[Ol Janx Spirit]

32. That is true. But I'll bet the foreign government isn't actually Israel...

..but Saudi Arabia and possibly Qatar.

They've already stuffed his pockets with money, and they stand to gain a lot from this conflict. And, we hear that Saudi Arabia was lobbying for it in private for months.

Israel is just the convenient excuse; another distraction.

Follow the money.... It always leads back to one family doesn't it?

[Wild blueberry]

20. What does Bibi have on Krasnov?

Asking for millions of friends.

[womanofthehills]

21. And then he tells us Iran can make 100 ballistic missles in a month

When we only make a tiny amount of interceptors. Did he know that before he took us to war and endangered our troops?

Rubio -"They can build 100 ballistic missiles a month

We build 6 or 7 interceptors a month... versus thousands of their one-way drones"

Simple maths.

[Mblaze]

22. So are you telling us that

Iran will just sit back and take it because you struck first? You are actually saving American lives? Rubio please.

[Skittles]

38. it ain't easy whoring for Trump

and Rubio looks like he is realizing he hitched his horse to the wrong wagon

[VTderry]

40. Hence what appears to be his regular reliance on

"Bolivian marching powder" to help him believe the BS he's require to sell.

Wonder if Whiskey Pete will be distributing it to the troops a la his favorite mustachioed madman?

[CaptainTruth]

24. The Stupid, it burns.

[1WorldHope]

25. From now on everyday i am going to call congress and say the following:

Donald John Trump, his entire cabinet, and his family need to be arrested and tried for treason. And all who have enabled him need to be held accountable!

[Martin68]

26. As usual, it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry, but as the bluesman once said, "You gonna wake up laughin',

laughin' just to keep from crying'. We attacked Iran because if we attacked them they would attack us. Case closed.

[LuvLoogie]

27. What a load of

white supremacist, imperialist crap. He's such a fucking punk. Fucking footman.

[yellow dahlia]

29. Your highlighted line caused me to do a double take.

[DFW]

30. In other words, our military policy is determined by the Prime Minister of Israel?

Got to give him credit for being willing to admit in public how stupid this administration is.

[BradBo]

31. Trump just said we attacked because he was as attacked.

Two assassination attempts was why we attacked Iran as per Trump.
They can’t get their stories straight.

[Safe as Milk]

34. From a report released just yesterday:

Over 30 commanders in the US armed forces told their troops that this Iran adventure was due to a desire to bring Armageddon to all of us and to make way for the second coming of Christ. This appears to be an attempt enact a Biblical myth regarding what can be described as the End of Times. Yes, it was actual news.

[intrepidity]

35. So wait. He is saying that we knew Israel was about to strike Iran

And so we preemptively hit *Iran* before they could retaliate against *us* for Israel hitting them? Sounds like someone was just suckered!

Put in sibling context:

Mom: Donny, why did you hit your little brother Billy??

Donny: Because Freddy was about to hit Billy, and I knew Billy would hit me if that happened!

Mom: so why didn't you stop Freddy from hitting Billy?

Donny: oh mom, you know how Freddy is!

Meanwhile, innocent Freddy is off playing elsewhere.

Have I got that right, Sec. Rubio?

[underpants]

36. Saw a tweet earlier today

I’ll be right back, I have to go punch my neighbor in the face before he punches me.

[druidity33]

37. Already walked back. No story there. Nope. nt.