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AverageOldGuy

(3,924 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:28 PM Monday

I'll just drop this here [View all]

Iran is not a Stone Age country. They have trains that run on time; high-speed interstate highways; internal air travel' schools, colleges, technical and trade schools, college, universities, medical schools. Look at video from Iran -- except for a few women wearing burkas and hajibs, the women look like women in the US. They have insurance companies, banks, hair and nail salons, barber shops, automobile dealers with their version of used car salesmen, traffic cops, guys who collect the trash, . . . .

Iran has hospitals. Some of these hosptials have a NICU -- Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit -- where premature babies are kept alive in incubators and on breathing machines. Many of those hospital have ICU -- Intensive Care Unit -- care for people who are seriously ill or injured and who require close 24/7 care, often on venitlators.

All these incubators, breathing machines, ventilators, heart-lung-machines operate on - - - electricity. I assume the hospitals will have emergency generators that use diesel fuel or propane. But the generators will not carry the entire electrical load of the hospital, so, some sections of the hospital must go without electricity. Will they shut down the NICU or the ICU when the power is out?

Then there's the problem of destroying water purification plants.

I'm so proud of our ignorant, shit-for-braiins, demented, incompetent President and SECDEF who are laughing about killing babies. Aren't you?



In 2029, when we have our version of the post-WW II Nuremberg Trials, I want to pull the handle on the gallows on those two human devils, but, I guess I'll have to stand in line. Maybe I could hang Stephen Miller.

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