Posted on 10/26/2019 8:29:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House announced late Saturday that President Donald Trump will address the nation on Sunday after reports suggest ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was captured or killed by the United States. The president previewed the news on his Twitter account.
“Something very big has just happened!” he wrote cryptically on his Twitter account.
Something very big has just happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019
The United States military conducted a special operations raid on Saturday against Bagdahdi, according to Newsweek, while a senior official said that Baghdadi had been killed.
Other reporters on Twitter confirmed the rumors, as the Pentagon awaits further verification of the successful raid.
This seems to relate to the raid in northern Idlib, Syria where U.S. led coalition forces were pursuing a high value terrorist target. No confirmation yet, some chatter it could be Baghdadi. https://t.co/I8aCl3oG5W
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 27, 2019
Something very big has just happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019
Other reports noted that a helicopter raid took place in Syria on a convoy of terrorist leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Agreed. I think will look more political than anything.
The American soldiers that took this terrorist out will not mysteriously die in non combat accidents like Seal 6.
I’m actually down with this.
And I am a 100% non violent person. This is what I have been driven to. It’s f*****g war.
I was happy when some Republicans suited up and stormed that make believe Star Chamber. FINALLY. I am so sick of the Pierre Delecto Candy Ass wing of the party calling the shots.
We need to all channel our inner Brietbart.
Maybe it’s not Baghdadi.
Maybe Schiff, Nadler, and Pelosi have been taken to Gitmo to face a military tribunal.
My natural cynicism tells me to hold my enthusiasm at the killing of a terrorist, especially the ‘leader’ of a particular group. There’s always a new leader after you kill the current one. So, what is especially important about this kill? This isn’t like WWII where you can actually end the war by killing the leader of a protagonist nation. Killing terrorist leaders is just a game of whack-a-mole.
“Killing terrorist leaders is just a game of whack-a-mole.”
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Yup. While certainly a positive development, I’m not sure it merits a presidential address to the nation.
Only communists and/or morons will be voting against this magnificent president next year. God Bless President Trump!!!!
We can celebrate the decapitation of the caliphate while recognizing that, much like fighting communism, the fight never truly ends.
“Adam Schiff will probably issue a subpoena to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to come and testify against President Trump.”
I had just tweeted to Schiff before I saw your post:
@RepAdamSchiff
Too bad Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead - you could have used him as a witness in the impeachment witch hunt...
Despite your seditious interference, President Trump keeps working for the good of the people...what positive actions have you taken for us lately?
If you keep killing the leaders, then volunteers to take the top job becomes more difficult.
I thought it might have been about the revised trajectory observations of that WTC sized asteroid about to hit Earth on Dec 20, 2019.
The guy in that tv commercial looks about like a younger Baghdadi. lolol
If true, the entire left will be railing against Trump and the military for killing this Izzlamic thug of rape and murder, declaring he is a man of peace and we killed in innocent man. It IS coming. They will come up with SOMETHING to rail about. They will damn the military for this. The military will not get the coo-doe’s they should be getting. Remember some of the BS when Bin Laden was killed. Questions of WHY we could not have taken him alive. They will reveal the soldier who killed him’s name, putting him and his family at risk. No the left, the commie, will find something to rail about.
Now that would be the frosting on the cake, were she to meet her Maker..
Media: This pull-out of Syria is going to allow an ISIS Resurgence.
Leftists: Trump is Hitler again.
Trump: Hold my Diet Coke
CNN: Why the capture of Al-Baghdadi is good for ISIS and bad for us.
I never watch Fox News anymore - I have it on for the President.
Is anyone else picking up that the commentators have the same talking points: “the lesson learned is that we cannot completely pull out of these countries blah blah blah”?
I hit the mute until the President speaks.
“The Mitthead has declared that such a raid, unless first cleared by the Schiff/Schumer/Pelosi/Mitthead team, is highly irregular, unconstitutional, and is another impeachable offense.”
I guess that would make Mitt “deeply concerned”
Is anyone else picking up that the commentators have the same talking points: “the lesson learned is that we cannot completely pull out of these countries blah blah blah”?
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Some would recall that Trump was never in favor when Obama would telegraph troops were leaving.
It is not something Trump would do.
One commentator identified his announcement of troop removal as a way to get this ISIS leader to come out in the open - so the announcement could have been a key (3D) chess piece being played.
And Trump was not afraid to take some criticism for the announcement.
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