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BREAKING: Iranian retaliation begins with missile attack on Iraqi airbase
jpost.com ^ | 01.07.2020 | TZVI JOFFRE

Posted on 01/07/2020 3:29:04 PM PST by rxsid

Iranian retaliation begins with missile attack on Iraqi airbase
By TZVI JOFFRE JANUARY 8, 2020 01:21

Initial reports stated that 9 rockets hit the Ain al-Assad airbase on Tuesday. The base hosts American soldiers.

Heavy missile attacks were carried out by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps on the Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq that hosts both Iraqi and US soldiers on Tuesday night. Nine missiles hit the airbase, according to Al-Hadath.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1; 4scoopsoficecream; dumbass; iran; iraq; missileattack; trump
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To: lodi90

Dumb assessment. You have no idea what their targets were or what constraints the launchers were under.

I say again, a thug just tried to shoot you and your family but missed. He is still standing in front of you threatening to shoot again. Are you going to shoot the thug and save your family, or say “no harm, no foul”? You shoot the bastard unless youre a non-caring pussy.


741 posted on 01/07/2020 7:06:20 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: janetjanet998

They do not try intercept unless they think it will hit something important. Most of the missiles must have hit nothing important.


742 posted on 01/07/2020 7:07:08 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: rxsid
One word is key in the Iranian statement that "Iran took and concluded proportionate measures ..."

It looks like they launched some off-target missiles just before their funeral for general street-pizza to try to save face, while being terrified they might kill an American.

743 posted on 01/07/2020 7:07:10 PM PST by monkeybrau
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To: reagandemocrat

They’re all whacking themselves in the head. He looked like Curly of The Three Stooges whacking his face, whenever he did his “Moe, Larry, Cheese” routine. Then the other guys start whacking themselves in the head. Reminds me of how people try to pat themselves on top of their head, and rub their tummies at the same time.


744 posted on 01/07/2020 7:07:35 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mbrfl

May well be...things seem quite in control, considering what’s going on. One other theory is that we somehow jammed their missiles...if so, Trump would know that and we’ll likely see some serious retaliation.

But your theory seems to make more sense, so far.


745 posted on 01/07/2020 7:07:52 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't don't tell anyone.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I just had a flasback of Zell Miller and Hardboiled Chris Matthews.


Ahh the memories. Thanks for this. Some of the best of times.


746 posted on 01/07/2020 7:08:19 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: janetjanet998

I watched a video on Twitter where some missiles were supposedly taken out by US forces.


747 posted on 01/07/2020 7:08:47 PM PST by conservativepoet
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To: rxsid

“Retaliation”

The strike on the Iranian military leader WAS retaliation on previous attacks HE’D conducted.

Everyone acts like the war started this weekend.

Just as Zimmerman was told he just should’ve accepted his beatdown in Florida.


748 posted on 01/07/2020 7:09:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: olesigh
You have in your about page stated you have been banned from FR a few times.

I do not think FR is Best Fit for you.

Is this another ROLCON attempt by yourself?

749 posted on 01/07/2020 7:09:22 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Stosh

“...reminded me of Curly in the “The Three Stooges”.
LOL!! I said the same thing before I’d even seen your comment. It’s down a ways from yours.


750 posted on 01/07/2020 7:09:40 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Magnum44
"I say again, a thug just tried to shoot you and your family but missed. He is still standing in front of you threatening to shoot again."

Wrong analogy. A thug just missed on purpose, clearly demonstrating that he's too afraid of you to shoot you for real. And if you shoot the thug you are going to be tied up in court for years and pay lawyers lots of money.

751 posted on 01/07/2020 7:11:30 PM PST by mlo
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To: romanesq

You mean Camel Spiders.


752 posted on 01/07/2020 7:12:06 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: mlo

No, he was incompetent, and your are incompetent and deserve to be shot if you don’t kill him first.


753 posted on 01/07/2020 7:12:55 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Deaf Smith

Opinions are like a-holes everybody has one.

I petitioned the owner, i didn’t realize i needed your permission, Sparky.

Is there some issue that has your panties in a bunch. Or you just the gatekeeper?


754 posted on 01/07/2020 7:12:58 PM PST by olesigh
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To: rxsid
Wow, "has Tucker gone to the darkside?"...seriously?

LOTS of neo-CON love on this thread.

Sad...very sad.

755 posted on 01/07/2020 7:12:59 PM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (NOT tired of winning.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Populations whose nations are under attack rally around their leaders. Always.


756 posted on 01/07/2020 7:15:10 PM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Jim Noble

until they are dead. Hitler, Saddam, for starters,


757 posted on 01/07/2020 7:17:08 PM PST by olesigh
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To: mass55th

Saw it - glad to know I wasn’t the only one whose mind jumps from international crisis to slapstick silliness!


758 posted on 01/07/2020 7:17:24 PM PST by Stosh
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To: olesigh
You made a ROLCON post: Roll Play Conservative.

Straight out of SHAREBLUE.

If you petitioned JR, did you include a check?

759 posted on 01/07/2020 7:18:57 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: ducttape45

It would have to be a BIG rod. The ones postulated in the 2003 Air Force study were 1 ft. diameter x 20 ft. long, impacting at Mach 10, and delivering about 11.5 tons of TNT. A magnitude 5 earthquake would be around 200 tons of TNT.


760 posted on 01/07/2020 7:19:29 PM PST by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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