Posted on 01/03/2020 3:16:43 PM PST by janetjanet998
BREAKING: "Unconfirmed report that Qais Khazali, one of the people the US named as responsible for storming of US Embassy in Baghdad, has been killed in new Baghdad airstrike"
Shareef don’t like it....Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah!
I think Trump is giving a nudge to the Iranian people that a revolution is now in order and he would back them up.
Unlike Obama when he turned his back on the Green Revolution a few years back.
He's actually reset my brain on what we should expect from a president.
It revolves around we the people NOT we the ruling elites.
Iraq citizens didn’t like Suliemani nor Irans influence on their country. However, Suleimanni is well know to have influence ‘Iraqi officials’ at all levels with bribery and if they didn’t accept he would certainly use threats he would and could carry out if they didn’t comply.
Suliemani was a lot like Saddam without the fanfair....he could and did use violence against Iranians if necessary in order to carry out his military/terroistic plans...and in any country he targeted for an attack. People were afraid of him and the power he welded, with the blessings of the Ayatollah.
Well, he’s only saying OIR didn’t do it. He likely knows who DID do it, but those folks are not likely to take credit. I would think the most likely party is the CIA, but there are a few others in the region who could pull it off.
Now the new guy is crapping himself even as he puckers up with the reality of becoming a “glorious martyr” in the near future...
Apparently so...a lot of people are going to see the writing on the wall if they don't straighten up.
NTOWY - Not tired of winning yet.
Iran has been at war with the USA since 1979.
The truth is that Iran is finished, and will BEG for peace.
Yes.
The base you conceive already exists in Afghanistan and in Saudi Arabia.
Flight time from the Saudi border to the major Iranian oil port and refinery at Bandar Shapur (Hussani) is about 15 minutes
Again, your aim is wrong. It is NOT a matter of being able to bomb Iranian oil ports. That is not the kind of conflict Iran will mount and not the kind of responses we will need to make. We need our close-in forces out of anything covered by the Baghdad area, where Iran will continue to have plenty of proxy forces in the Iraqi Shia militias they support. We can do that from Iraqi Kurdistan, where our forces cannot be attacked by the Shia militias, because the Kurds won’t let them in there.
Wrong..... we are not isolationist cowards as you wish
The untold story here is our obviously great intel.
Courtesy of Israel, maybe?
Certainly at least with Israeli help.
But I think this goes beyond Israel. We’ve got something going on akin to breaking the German and Jap codes in WWII.
I don’t even want to know what it is, and I hope NONE of the TRAITORS in congress or the media get wind of the details of whatever our secret capabilities in this area are.
Fallin’ down like Bowling Pins!
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Yay!
“We can work over Iran just fine from our existing positions. There is no need to move closer.”
That is not the kind of response we will need, as it is contrary to the kind of response Iran will make, which will not be conventional attack but in line with how the Quds Force operates. There is no need for what you suggest.
But there is a need for our close-in unconventional strike means to be very, very close but to be safely away from the Shia militias in and around Baghdad, and they cannot operate in Iraqi Kurdistan. And there is much to be made by the in your face move to the Mullahs demonstrating the opposite of being threatened by them - we move closer.
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