Posted on 12/31/2019 12:11:23 PM PST by Kaslin
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised President Trump's response after Iranian-backed militias breached the International Zone of Baghdad, known as the Green Zone, and attacked the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday.
The Department of Defense has sent around 100 U.S. Marines who are assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command to reinforce the embassy.
"The Department of Defense is working closely with the Department of State to ensure the security of our Embassy and personnel in Baghdad," Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in a statement. "We have taken appropriate force protection actions to ensure the safety of American citizens, military personnel and diplomats in country, and to ensure our right of self-defense. We are sending additional forces to support our personnel at the Embassy."
Marines are tasked with protecting American embassies around the world. In addition to the reinforcements, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters are providing air cover to the embassy.
VIDEO: AH-64 Apaches protect @USEmbBaghdad. ??“We have taken appropriate force protection actions to ensure the safety of American citizens...and to ensure our right of self-defense. We are sending additional forces to support our personnel at the Embassy.”~@EsperDoD ???????? pic.twitter.com/amABHBAOcL— OIR Spokesman Col. Myles B. Caggins III (@OIRSpox) December 31, 2019
"Very proud of President [Trump] acting decisively in the face of threats to our embassy in Baghdad. He has put the world on notice - there will be no Benghazis on his watch," Graham tweeted. "To the Iranian government: Be careful what you wish for — a country that depends on the ability to refine oil for its existence needs to be cautious. President Trump, unlike President Obama, will hold you accountable for threats against Americans and hit you where it hurts the most. Choose your battles wisely."
To the Iranian government:
Be careful what you wish for — a country that depends on the ability to refine oil for its existence needs to be cautious.
(2/4)— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 31, 2019
To our Iraqi allies:
This is your moment to convince the American people the US-Iraq relationship is meaningful to you and worth protecting.
Protect our American personnel. You will not regret it.
(4/4)— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 31, 2019
The militias targeted the American Embassy after the U.S. conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Kataeb Hezbollah in retaliation for the killing of a U.S. contractor on Friday.
What do you have against Graham, that he is a Bachelor?
They are disgusting
What do you have against him? That he was friends with John McCain? Perhaps he should have asked you for your permission
Exactly
What is the size of the perimeter around the US Embassy? I ask as size, # of enemy plus, type of support ( arty, tac air, reinforcements, etc.) determine # of troops needed. I would use SF and Kurds. 5-6 SF types trained in UW can control over 100 INDIG in combat. Yes, US Marines do have embassy duty. Iraqi’s fear Kurds
He’s a complete opportunist, but tries to come across as principled.
I haven't seen any reports of hundreds of raghead bodies stacked up in front of the embassy...
I have't seen reports of 2-3 Iranian embassies having been reduced to a pile of rubble...
I haven't seen any reports of mass deportations (via tramp steamers) of the hundreds-of-thousands of Iranian students in the U.S...
I haven't seen any reports of the complete destruction of an Iranian centrifuge facility...
I haven't seen any reports of demands for return of the billions of dollars in bribes that obunghole & the faux swift boat hero spirited into Iran under the cover of darkness...
Save "praise" for something real!
Kurds are not needed when the USMC is in town.
They just become another group to protect.
No, more likely he was blackmailed by McCain into being his wingman.
Exactly
ROTFLMAO
Our military is there right now protecting the compound..Obama allowed our ambassador to die! There has been NO deaths on Trump’s watch..everyone is fine and secure..in fact they are not even evacuating the embassy so that is good news
“I wouldn’t like or trust Linda if he was handing me a free beer.”
Handing me a free beer would make me distrust, and dislike the SOB even more than I do now.
They want to fight America, we can show up in their living rooms. We can hit them in their mosques now that the Kenyan is gone.
The “protestors” are only at the outermost perimeter.
I don’t know much about the embassy defences but, apparently, they are very extensive.
Hater.
I’m thinking Some A-10’s making a couple of passes along the outer walls would do nicely....
I can’t fully express how self-centered and depraved that woman is. She’s truly sick, and truly dangerous.
LOL!!!
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