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Iran Strikes Back: Missiles Rain Down On American Forces In Iraq
The War Zone ^ | 1/7/2020 | JOSEPH TREVITHICK

Posted on 01/07/2020 4:25:23 PM PST by reintarnation

Details are still coming in, but Iran has launched a massive missile attack against U.S. forces in Iraq, including Al Asad Air Base, in retaliation for the American drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian commander, last week. A major rocket barrage on Al Asad, which sits around 115 miles west of Baghdad, may have also preceded the strikes. U.S. President Donald Trump has already threatened a major response, including potential strikes on cultural sites, against Iran in the event of any such attack.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 5; blogpimpin; iran; iraq; trump
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To: ozarker

Don’t let the excitement over the action in Iraq and Iran divert your attention from what could and probably will happen here.

Remember it is a known fact that there are agents of Iran here in the US and this might be their signal to make their move, whatever that might be.

It could be in your town.


21 posted on 01/07/2020 4:37:20 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: HighSierra5

Time to send them to the Dark Ages and set off a couple emps over Tehran


22 posted on 01/07/2020 4:37:26 PM PST by BOBWADE (WWG1WGA)
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To: reintarnation

We don’t need to keep our troops in harms way. Let the whole Iraqi and Iranian nation go to Hell in hand basket.


23 posted on 01/07/2020 4:37:28 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: roadcat

Iran had it’s spend it $150 billion gift from Bammy on something!


24 posted on 01/07/2020 4:37:43 PM PST by lizma2
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To: roadcat

Questionable reporting. Source?


25 posted on 01/07/2020 4:37:45 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: reintarnation

Far too early to know what’s going on at this time. Reports are all over the map. Several reports say rockets. Several say surface to surface. Several use rockets and missiles interchangeably.

Dobbs interviewed their man on the ground and he wasn’t sure what exactly has happened. Just that he’s getting info of attacks to two airbases that house American troops.


26 posted on 01/07/2020 4:38:04 PM PST by ocrp1982 (ll)
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To: roadcat

“I hope we get all the Iranian subs. And totally cripple their navy and air force. That ought to be the first couple of items on Trump’s 52 list of targets”

The only thing worst than the the age / technology of these subs is the low iq fanatics trying to keep them afloat.


27 posted on 01/07/2020 4:39:07 PM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: ozarker

“Get a declaration of war”

From where? From a democrat controlled congress? Those traitors would rather see washington under occupation by iranian troops than approve a declaration of war for trump.


28 posted on 01/07/2020 4:39:38 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: reintarnation

Prayers up for our troops.


29 posted on 01/07/2020 4:39:51 PM PST by wjcsux (Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Bon mots

air intercept story....

I just love heartwarming stories like that.

Next time it should end with a hotter ending for the bad guy’s burned marshmallow plane.


30 posted on 01/07/2020 4:39:55 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Destroy the Kharg Island oil terminal and their only revenue source dries up. Instantly.


31 posted on 01/07/2020 4:39:58 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: reintarnation

bump


32 posted on 01/07/2020 4:41:11 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Jamestown1630

I was thinking the same thing...”Rain down” with a dozen missiles sounds a little exaggerated...


33 posted on 01/07/2020 4:41:36 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: reintarnation

My reaction is an act of war is an act of war. Take out the Iranian. Yes that’s a very serious thing. War is war.


34 posted on 01/07/2020 4:43:00 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: old curmudgeon

Locked and loaded


35 posted on 01/07/2020 4:43:04 PM PST by Iron head mike (MadMic)
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To: samtheman
Stick with going after leaders.

Precisely, my good FRiend.

If you have ever seen the classic western film Rio Bravo, you might recall a scene in which bad guy Burdett rode into town with about 4 hired gunslingers.

Dude (played by Dean Martin) confronted them and Burdett observed that Dude had no chance against (approx) 5 guns.

Paraphrasing...

"That's right, Mister Burdett, but it doesn't matter. Because if we start shooting, I'm getting YOU first."

Burdett then instructed his hirelings to comply w Dude.

Similarly, if the iranian top creeps know that THEY are the targets (and hiding only works most of the time), they just might not put that stick in the hornets' nest.

That said, one wonders are they s. m. a. r. t. enough for enlightened self preservation-related decisions?

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36 posted on 01/07/2020 4:43:33 PM PST by Seaplaner
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To: Williams

I meant to write, take out the Iranian regime.


37 posted on 01/07/2020 4:43:53 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: frank ballenger
air intercept story....

I just love heartwarming stories like that.

Next time it should end with a hotter ending for the bad guy’s burned marshmallow plane
.

It will.
Israelis are reporting that Iranian air force jets are headed towards Iraq. They are all about to go down in flames. Their entire air force.

38 posted on 01/07/2020 4:44:01 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: reintarnation

Iranians are demanding more “protection cash” to be sent on pallets.


39 posted on 01/07/2020 4:44:46 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: JBW1949

Well, Iran probably doesn’t have rockets/missiles with the accuracy to ‘rain down’.

(But depending on how this goes, they may soon learn what ‘rain down’ actually looks like.)


40 posted on 01/07/2020 4:45:24 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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