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Can A Direct Attack on American Servicemen Really Go Unanswered?
Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2020 | Nicholas Waddy

Posted on 01/19/2020 6:40:15 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
Checking out the author he's not a lefty or never Trumper but he's wrong in his case.

https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/

41 posted on 01/19/2020 7:42:57 AM PST by McGruff
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To: PIF
When were you last subject to multiple 500lb bombs exploding near your position?

May 8 1968 and TBI was an unknown as a 'send them to the evac hospital' to see if their ears are ringing level of care. The explosives of that era undoubtedly were much softer than todays.

42 posted on 01/19/2020 7:45:06 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: PIF

Now you want to know about bombs. The military should expect concussions. The NFL does why not them. My experiences are with fists and heads hitting on asphalt and my mother hitting her head on a tile floor. Sorry doesn’t;t meet your qualifications doctor.

I agree with your second paragraph. They are religious fanatics. The only way to stop a fanatic is to kill them.


43 posted on 01/19/2020 7:50:31 AM PST by olesigh
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To: redcatcherb412

a concussion IS an injury. If the command told trump no i juries someone should be relieved.


44 posted on 01/19/2020 7:51:38 AM PST by olesigh
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Yeah the real question is why Soleimani wasn’t taken out before....this was Trump’s finest hour...and imo if Americans were killed or severely wounded in Iran’s counter strike Trump would have made them pay 10 fold in blood and infrastructure...


45 posted on 01/19/2020 7:52:15 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: numberonepal

I am not subject to spin. There were injuries as admitted Friday night by the TRUMP administration. There was thread started then. You might turn off your own spin cycle.


46 posted on 01/19/2020 7:52:59 AM PST by olesigh
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To: minnesota_bound

Not the same thing at all.

One bullet can kill a man.

One nuke simply ends the sender.


47 posted on 01/19/2020 8:15:49 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: PIF

OK, suppose Iran nukes NYC. That’s where I was born and grew up, no doubt it would seriously piss me off.

What after that makes you afraid they would take over the world?

Here’s a hint: they do that, they ain’t taking over shit.


48 posted on 01/19/2020 8:19:16 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Alberta's Child

Well put.


49 posted on 01/19/2020 8:19:43 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: PIF
The U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon were destroyed by a suicide bomber who drove his truck through a security checkpoint guarded by Marines with no ammunition in their weapons.

If a U.S. President is unwilling to court-martial and summarily execute multiple members of a military leadership who operates that way in an 'effing war zone, then he has no business putting those troops in harm's way like that.

50 posted on 01/19/2020 8:24:04 AM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: Kaslin

The author is grossly ignorant. He doesn’t understand that the President is actually destroying Iran rather than the author asked for tit for proportional tat.

Nicholas can’t comprehend the fact that by closing off virtually all Iranian oil exports, even those to the largest Iranian customer china, Iran is being destroyed, not just wounded.

Nicholas is so behind on current events he can’t comprehend the fact that The President has made good on his threats to the European hold outs to quit doing business with Iran or suffer very serious American retaliation in the form of 100% tariffs. The Euros have seemingly capitulated.

Nicholas thinks that by invoking the words American Serviceman he makes himself important. He does not.

His ignorance dooms himself to birdcage lining producer


51 posted on 01/19/2020 8:30:17 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Jim Noble

Kills millions of Americans prior. Kill them first and save millions of lives.


52 posted on 01/19/2020 8:34:17 AM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Alberta's Child

Unfortunately that decision stretched all the way back to the WH. I think Reagan’s National Security advisor (Don’t remember which one!) bears the blame. Who knows he may have talked Reagan into agreeing with that policy.


53 posted on 01/19/2020 8:34:37 AM PST by Reily
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To: Alberta's Child

> You have a neighbor with a gun in his bedroom. What gives you the right to take it away from him? <

To which I’d add: Maybe you gave your neighbor a reason (not necessarily a good reason) to buy that gun in the first place.

Remember George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech? In that speech he threatened Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Then he went ahead and invaded Iraq.

Soon after that both Iran and North Korea ramped up their nuclear programs. No surprise there. Bush should have kept his stupid mouth shut.


54 posted on 01/19/2020 8:37:45 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Great point. Any foreign leader with half a brain has every reason to develop a WMD program to defend his country ... mainly against THE UNITED STATES.


55 posted on 01/19/2020 8:45:31 AM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Won’t get fooled again.

Sorry.


56 posted on 01/19/2020 8:59:47 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Jim Noble

Hint: it would become a worldwide thermonuclear war involving US Russia China UK India Pakistan etc. Being pissed off would be the least of your troubles.

Its not taking over, but exterminating (bringing all to Paradise) the human race is their goal.


57 posted on 01/19/2020 9:00:46 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Alberta's Child

with no ammunition in their weapons


Neither did the SPs on the USS Cole. There is no way that they would be executed - that just idiotic.


58 posted on 01/19/2020 9:03:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Hint: it would become a worldwide thermonuclear war involving US Russia China UK India Pakistan etc

Absurd.

Iranian nuke goes off on US territory.

One hour later Iran is gone.

No way on earth Russia OR China would participate in that insanity.

If Pak and India take the opportunity to get in a few licks, that's their problem.

59 posted on 01/19/2020 9:04:40 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: PIF

But can they fire their waves of cave missiles through glass?


60 posted on 01/19/2020 9:26:11 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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