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Democrats call US killing of Iranian general 'reckless'
AP ^ | Jan 3, 2020

Posted on 01/03/2020 5:59:54 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox" with the targeted killing of Iran's top general in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.

The former vice president joined other Democratic White House hopefuls in criticizing Trump's order, saying it could leave the U.S. “on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East."

The Pentagon said the U.S. military killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in Baghdad Friday at the direction of Trump. The attack is expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests. The Defense Department said Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afraid; appeasement; baghdad; intimidated; iran; scared; soleimani; trump
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Just ask the question “ Why was Iran’s Rev Guard Commander, the top card in the world terror card deck, in Baghdad”?

He wasnt fighting ISiS

Or carpet shopping


41 posted on 01/03/2020 6:25:00 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: TakebackGOP

Why post this?

No one made you click on the link. Move on.


42 posted on 01/03/2020 6:25:23 AM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Little Ray

Bingo


43 posted on 01/03/2020 6:25:37 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
When Trump is throwing sticks of DYNO-MYTE into the tinderbox you are standing on, he doesnt miss!

44 posted on 01/03/2020 6:26:05 AM PST by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Dr. Sivana

As earlier articles mentioned (before the “shut up” memo went out) he was arranging the attack on the American embassy, together with some lovely Hamas people.


45 posted on 01/03/2020 6:26:07 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: RatRipper

What actually happened is that the veil obscuring the leadership from the surrogates was obliterated.

Cowardly Iran can no longer hide behind surrogate skirts


46 posted on 01/03/2020 6:26:38 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

And if Trump didn’t act, they would attack him for that. Hypocrites.


47 posted on 01/03/2020 6:26:53 AM PST by Trump_Triumphant
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To: Dacula

“Why post this?

No one made you click on the link. Move on.”

Most of the posts today are anti-Trump.


48 posted on 01/03/2020 6:27:35 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Once, again...POTUS gets these fools to defend another undefendable MURDERER/terrorist.

49 posted on 01/03/2020 6:28:13 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Little Ray
What was that asshole doing in Iraq?

At first I thought I was mis-reading the article, cuz that was the first question that popped into my head too. Then I thought well, maybe it's Biden confused again.

Nonetheless, I want to know the answer to your question too.

50 posted on 01/03/2020 6:29:02 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: RedStateRocker
What was this bastard doing in Iraq anyway?

Precisely . . . I figure Rush and some others will freeze this point and emphasize it today. Even a few ignorant Rats might be able to grasp the meaning of his being killed while in Iraq . . . but I am not holding my breath.

51 posted on 01/03/2020 6:29:31 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So what was Irans top general doing in Iraq? And tell the fcktards in congress nothing, they are spies for the middle east.


52 posted on 01/03/2020 6:29:48 AM PST by Ikeon (Never give aid to an enemy while they are screwing themselves.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I like the way you think.


53 posted on 01/03/2020 6:30:56 AM PST by Trump_Triumphant
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To: Dr. Sivana

good question! It was the same thought I had, but since it was just after a protest at the US Embassy, surely the two things are completely unrelated!


54 posted on 01/03/2020 6:38:43 AM PST by allwrong57
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I “call” that DEMON-RATs are allowed to be in any position of authority, power or influence “reckless”. Wake up voters!


55 posted on 01/03/2020 6:38:51 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: 1Old Pro

I totally understand the risks involved for the folks on the ground over there. I do not mean for the details to come out while we have operatives over there. But should one of them write a book about this event in a few years, it would be an interesting read.


56 posted on 01/03/2020 6:41:27 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: ByteMercenary
But should one of them write a book about this event in a few years, it would be an interesting read.

Yes, no doubt it would be interesting, and probably impressive to see the back story.

57 posted on 01/03/2020 6:43:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: EvilCapitalist

Well this is politics and it is shameful. I would think Biden actually agrees with the action POTUS has taken. Maybe he a Gabbard the only ones, but they will not win the nomination if they publicly agree with President Trump.


58 posted on 01/03/2020 6:45:14 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Last time the Iranian government tried to take an American embassy with a Democrat president in office, they held 58 Americans hostages over a year until a Republican was elected President and then released them. This time when they ordered their proxies to storm an American embassy with a Republican president the only fatality was the guy who ordered them to storm it.. The lesson learned by the mullahs is to wait until the next election cycle to see if a Dem is elected before they storm an American embassy


59 posted on 01/03/2020 6:47:04 AM PST by chuckee
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What would have been their response to the embassy attack? Send a nasty letter to the Ayatollah, make nice with pallet loads of cash, go cry at the U.N. or maybe send the Squad to Tehran to appease the mullahs? Trump has the Iranian leaders shaking in their turbans.


60 posted on 01/03/2020 6:50:29 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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