Posted on 01/02/2020 8:24:28 PM PST by Steely Tom
The significance of Thursday's US strike against Qasem Soleimani cannot be overstated because he ran Iran's military operations across the Middle East.
Iraqi state TV reported Thursday that Soleimani, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, was killed by rockets hitting his vehicle near Baghdad International Airport. The Pentagon then confirmed it was an American strike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Soleimani.
Here is how General Joseph Votel, the then-commander of US Central Command that oversees American military operations in the Middle East, explained Soleimani's role in 2018: "Wherever you see Iranian activity, you see Qasem Soleimani, whether it is in Syria, whether it is in Iraq, whether it is in Yemen, he is there and it is the Quds Force, the organization which he leads, that I think is the principal threat as we look at this and the principal ones that are stoking this destabilizing activity."
During the past decade Iran has conducted proxy wars across the Middle East in Iraq, Syria and Yemen and it also controls much of Lebanon through its proxy force there, Hezbollah. Soleimani was in charge of all these operations.
Soleimani also oversaw operations against US servicemen in Iraq by Shia militias in which hundreds of American servicemen were killed following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. While eager to wind down US wars in the Middle East, President Trump has proven willing to respond militarily when American lives are at risk. He authorized five airstrikes on Sunday against targets in Iraq and Syria that were associated with an Iran-backed militia that the US blamed for a recent attack on an American military base in Iraq that resulted in the death of a US contractor and in which several American servicemen were wounded.
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Obviously, CNN hasn't gotten its talking points from George Soros and the Democrat Braintrust yet.
Happy Days are here again!
Hey CNN!!
WTF was an Iranian general doing outside the Baghdad, IRAN airport?
Talk softly and launch a big Predator.
see! Its so damn confusing even I cant keep track!
Isn’t Baghdad in IRAQ?
Yeah, CNN is fair here.
Tomorrow they’ll have negative, anti-America input from the DNC to help them...
Guess they don’t yet.
ping for later.
This guy should have been smoked decades ago.
Yes. He was killed in Iraq. Fair game.
Oh don't worry, by tomorrow their change in tone will be amazing.
This will SURELY get The Wall built...!
Plus, being in another war in the middle-east will be something that’s going to totally BOOST Trump 2020, right..?
I wonder if we’ll soon be getting our opiates from Tehran.
Yeah I was shocked. I think he’s their token republican writer.
Soleimani also oversaw operations against US servicemen in Iraq by Shia militias in which hundreds of American servicemen were killed..
For which Iran should have been SLAMMED with missiles.
This is Hugh and Series
That’s a great question and someone at CNN should have asked it!
Not much sympathy on CNN, which surprises me. This was a big hit under circumstances that fully justified it. Have to wonder if Soleimani had grown just a little too complacent.
“I think he’s their token republican writer.”
Nope
If Iran even thinks of responding, Sink their entire McHale’s navy with deniable torpedoes (although cost loss v Iranian ‘warships’).
They just said, “Killing the bad guy is the easy part!”
Really? You guys should go investigate firsthand then. Boots on the ground.
bump
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