Posted on 01/10/2020 11:20:55 PM PST by John Semmens
Shortly following Iran's ballistic missile attack on two US bases in Iraq, the regime also downed Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 with a surface to air missile. All 176 on-board the aircraft were killed. The Iranian government has denied responsibility for the slaughter—alleging that mechanical failure or pilot error caused the plane to go down. So sure are they of their allegation that the debris field is currently being bulldozed to, as Irani officials say, "remove any false evidence that could be used to discredit our heroic air defense soldiers."
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, tweeted "innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat. Soleimani has been conducting murderous terror operations years. We prudently turned a blind eye toward those killings. Trump's overreaction to take out one bad guy has led to the deaths of so many innocent civilians. When I am president we will observe more forbearance. Bearing a few hundred deaths a year due to terrorist attacks is a small price to pay for averting a wider conflagration."
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif) asserted that "the downing of this plane is just the culminating event in a tragic series of events in the region since Trump became president. Our embassy in Baghdad was attacked. Nothing like that happened when Obama was president. Neither Bush nor Obama thought Solmeimani was an appropriate target, even though he was know to be the mastermind of Iran's terror network. Trump is the one who's out-of-step with normal foreign policy." When Fox News' Sandra Smith mentioned that the Benghazi Consulate was attacked and Ambassador Stevens killed during Obama's first term, Khanna dismissed this as "totally different. That was only a consulate and, unlike Trump, President Obama made a conscious decision to sacrifice those people rather than escalate the situation. I think he made the right choice."
Rep. Jackie Speier (Calif) appeared on CNN to say that "this is yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken in a provocative way by the President of the United States. The airline crash wasn't the only tragic consequence of Trump's murder of Soleimani. Kimia Alizadeh, Iran's only hope for an Olympic medal this summer, is emigrating to The Netherlands. These kinds of things didn't happen when Obama was president. So, I think that the previous administration's policy of coddling Iran was clearly the better course of action from a global perspective."
One aspect of the aftermath of taking out Soleimani that doesn't fit with contentions that Trump has escalated tensions is the fleeing of terror cells from Iraq. Trump's daring elimination of this high ranking terrorist has broken their complacency. Combined with Iran's advance notice to the Iraqi government of its ballistic missile attack, it appears that toughness may be the better course of action from a global perspective.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/274733-2020-01-11-semi-news-semi-satire-january-12-2019-edition.htm
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Who ever thought that your satires would become reality? Lol.
Iran shoots down a Ukrainian airliner (which they now admit they did), and it’s Trump’s fault. Makes perfect sense (to a Democrat).
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