Another Middle East Crisis, Syrian Special "WMD"

[Andalusian girls]

my personal favorite bit was the claim there were 12 hijackers

[Tarage]

Hey. Iran. Go ahead and take the shot. Take out both of them please. At this point I think we'd accept most collateral damage as well. You have my blessing. Take the shot.

[Byrthnoth]

Interesting strategy. Claim that you had to kill an Iranian leader because secret intel told you they were plotting to harm Americans and you were trying to stop it but it might happen anyway. Retaliation is now confirmation. Checkmate, liberals!

[Zealot]

Kinda, taking out someone you have actionable intelligence is plotting to harm your country is A-OK by UN standards.

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[kuronosan]

Hey guys taking out this guy may not stop these attacks but we had to take him out to stop these attacks.

[Cail]

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/13...-Deals-Anymore

[vagus]

The amount of Canadians supporting this attack is disheartening. Even with out the Fox machine, these Canadians have similar responses to the Trump lead attack supporters.




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[Xno Kappa]

Hey. Iran. Go ahead and take the shot. Take out both of them please. At this point I think we'd accept most collateral damage as well. You have my blessing. Take the shot.

Hey. Iran. Don’t take the shot.

[Yabby]

The amount of Canadians supporting this attack is disheartening. Even with out the Fox machine, these Canadians have similar responses to the Trump lead attack supporters.




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If the American war machine benefited anyone more than military contract receivers, it's Canada. Their interests and ours aline a lot of the time, but they don't have to spend shit or get a target put on their backs. They can then sit on their high horse afterwards if something doesn't work out.

[guartz]

Hey. Iran. Don’t take the shot.

You gotta admire the dedication of the hatred. It's fascinating. I hopped over to r/Iran and the locals seem to be cheering this dude's death.

[kuronosan]

Yea, I'm sure the locals are so pleased.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50995792

Iraqi green zone was attacked with mortar fire.

A projectile hit the Green Zone near the US embassy while several more were fired north of the Iraqi capital at Balad air base, which houses US forces.

Nobody was hurt in the attacks, Iraqi security sources say.

At least one rocket or mortar round hit Celebration Square in the Green Zone while another exploded in the city's Jadria area, Iraqi security sources say.

After two rockets hit Balad air base, surveillance drones were sent up to locate the source, AFP news agency reports.

No group said it had carried out the attacks.

[Xno Kappa]

Lol there’s random mortar fire all the damn in balad. Oh no they have to shut down the outdoor pool for 15 minutes!

[archibaldcrane]

[WASHINGTON — In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the option of killing him — which they viewed as the most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq — on the menu they presented to President Trump.

They didn’t think he would take it. In the wars waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon officials have often offered improbable options to presidents to make other possibilities appear more palatable.
After initially rejecting the Suleimani option on Dec. 28 and authorizing airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Shia militia group instead, a few days later Mr. Trump watched, fuming, as television reports showed Iranian-backed attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad, according to Defense Department and administration officials.

By late Thursday, the president had gone for the extreme option. Top Pentagon officials were stunned.]

[General Suleimani, who was considered the most important person in Iran after Ayatollah Khamenei, was a commanding general of a sovereign government. The last time the United States killed a major military leader in a foreign country was during World War II, when the American military shot down the plane carrying the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

But administration officials are playing down General Suleimani’s status as a part of the Iranian state, suggesting his title gave him cover for terrorist activities. In the days since his death, they have sought to describe the strike as more in line with the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, who died in October in an American commando raid in Syria.]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/u...suleimani.html

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[kuronosan]

Weren't those just riots and not necessarily embassy attacks? I'm confused.

[archibaldcrane]

I mean, they didn't kill anybody

But if they got their hands on someone...maybe

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[Fiye]

A part of me is surprised the UN hasn't jumped down pur throat for what donny has done and been tweeting but at the same time

I'm not surprised.

[Yabby]

[WASHINGTON — In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the option of killing him — which they viewed as the most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq — on the menu they presented to President Trump.

They didn’t think he would take it. In the wars waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon officials have often offered improbable options to presidents to make other possibilities appear more palatable.
After initially rejecting the Suleimani option on Dec. 28 and authorizing airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Shia militia group instead, a few days later Mr. Trump watched, fuming, as television reports showed Iranian-backed attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad, according to Defense Department and administration officials.

By late Thursday, the president had gone for the extreme option. Top Pentagon officials were stunned.]

[General Suleimani, who was considered the most important person in Iran after Ayatollah Khamenei, was a commanding general of a sovereign government. The last time the United States killed a major military leader in a foreign country was during World War II, when the American military shot down the plane carrying the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

But administration officials are playing down General Suleimani’s status as a part of the Iranian state, suggesting his title gave him cover for terrorist activities. In the days since his death, they have sought to describe the strike as more in line with the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, who died in October in an American commando raid in Syria.]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/u...suleimani.html

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Military Generals: Lets give him this extreme choice littered with all these other more useful choices.

Trump: Wait we can go right to killing their leaders? DO IT!

Military Generals:

[kuronosan]

And then they complied, so they can't really blame him. They're fucking idiots.

[Byrthnoth]

Well, it would be worse if they didn't comply, which would be insubordination.

The military leadership is in a really tough spot here because they cannot defy orders (or they undermine the legitimacy of our government) and they are being led by an idiot civilian. They obviously aren't automatons so there is some degree of grey space between defying orders and managing up, but encouraging insubordination is dumb.