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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It means war. God bless our troops.
And another one bites the dust
It means Iran can no longer operate with impunity outside their own borders. Period.
How they respond determines if it means war.
We killed a designated terrorist outside Iran in his attempt to kill more Americans forces, and we also sent a very strong message to Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and all of their proxies.
Air drop pallets of ak47s to the Iranian people.
Let them kill the mullets.
Iran said “Jump Frog” . . .
Tomorrow they’ll have negative, anti-America input from the DNC to help them...
Guess they don’t yet"
The DemonRATs are still to busy partying over their impeachment gambit to issue orders to the media until their hangover clears.
Waiting for his flight to disneyworld.
They won’t mention Trump. The US did it.
I’m loving these “killed Qasem Soleimani stories.
Gives me the warm fuzzies. :P)
John Brennan must be in mourning tonight.
They're waiting for the Democrats to send them their new talking points.
He was waiting for a lift. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't the type of lift he was expecting.
He must have missed his connection to Orlando Pity
Tomorrow being Friday Brennen will be at Mosque all day.
Now they're going to have a problem connecting the pieces of him that are left.
The happiest place on earth
I hope he trips on his prayer rug, and breaks his neck.
Alahu Akbar!
It sounds like the USA is taking a lesson from Israel. Following the bad guys around and knowing where they are at all times.
Then, when something bad happens to us, we can link them to the event and quickly retaliate.
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