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New York Times: The Nightmare Stage of Trump’s Rule Is Here
New York Times ^ | 01/07/2020 | Michelle Goldberg

Posted on 01/07/2020 5:57:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind

There are no more adults in the room.

After three harrowing years, we’ve reached the point many of us feared from the moment Donald Trump was elected. His decision to kill Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s second most important official, made at Mar-a-Lago with little discernible deliberation, has brought the United States to the brink of a devastating new conflict in the Middle East.

We don’t yet know how Iran will retaliate, or whether all-out war will be averted. But already, NATO has suspended its mission training Iraqi forces to fight ISIS. Iraq’s Parliament has voted to expel American troops — a longtime Iranian objective. (On Monday, U.S. forces sent a letter saying they were withdrawing from Iraq in response, only to then claim that it was a draft released in error.)

On Sunday, Iran said it will no longer be bound by the remaining restrictions on its nuclear program in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal that Trump abandoned in 2018. Trump has been threatening to commit war crimes by destroying Iran’s cultural sites and tried to use Twitter to notify Congress of his intention to respond to any Iranian reprisals with military escalation.

The administration has said that the killing of Suleimani was justified by an imminent threat to American lives, but there is no reason to believe this. One skeptical American official told The New York Times that the new intelligence indicated nothing but “a normal Monday in the Middle East,” and Democrats briefed on it were unconvinced by the administration’s case. The Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who last year agreed with a Christian Broadcasting Network interviewer that God might have sent Trump to save Israel from the “Iranian menace” — has been pushing for a hit on Suleimani

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
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1 posted on 01/07/2020 5:57:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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40 years of kissing the mullah’s butts is finally over. Their choice, not ours.


2 posted on 01/07/2020 6:00:05 PM PST by datura
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To: SeekAndFind

An Iranian General is in Iraq trying to coordinate an attack on the US Embassy.

That’s war.


3 posted on 01/07/2020 6:00:37 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

Self-hating Leftist.


4 posted on 01/07/2020 6:00:37 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: SeekAndFind

Holy Hyperbole Bat Man!!!


5 posted on 01/07/2020 6:01:30 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: SeekAndFind

“The administration has said that the killing of Suleimani was justified by an imminent threat to American lives, but there is no reason to believe this.”.

Or any reason to believe you.


6 posted on 01/07/2020 6:01:33 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: BobL

Bitch.


7 posted on 01/07/2020 6:01:56 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: datura
I don't want another war, but I remember these nightmare days.


8 posted on 01/07/2020 6:02:09 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are no decent words to describe The NewYork Sllimes article. Sickening at best. Anyone who reads that trash is to me an enemy combatant.


9 posted on 01/07/2020 6:02:12 PM PST by MGunny (l)
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“New York Times: The Nightmare Stage of Trump’s Rule Is Here”

Considering the source, I’m very, very pleased.


10 posted on 01/07/2020 6:02:45 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only nightmare is that it is the end of their Deep State tyranny.Their whole world is about change.


11 posted on 01/07/2020 6:03:21 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Yeah if only Trump had been a good boy and just given Iran trillions of OUR money than maybe just maybe they would not want to kill us


12 posted on 01/07/2020 6:03:26 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Dear Michelle,

Suck this.

Regards,

L


13 posted on 01/07/2020 6:04:49 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s hoping that if there is a pull out EVERYTHING is pulled out or physically DESTROYED including airbases.


14 posted on 01/07/2020 6:05:01 PM PST by Maudeen (http://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

I fear a setup. I’m envisioning the deep state trotting out witness saying we lured Suleimani to Iraq and whacked him in a wag the dog ploy to divert attention from impeachment.


15 posted on 01/07/2020 6:05:09 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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Our nation on the brink of war and the NYT attacks the CIC this is what real treason looks like.


16 posted on 01/07/2020 6:05:13 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut the mother #### up Slimes.

I can’t Stand our domestic enemies anymore


17 posted on 01/07/2020 6:05:43 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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NYT'S tried to warn Sulimani BEFORE he was taken out. How did they get that information?

Isn't there a word for this? -Begins with a "T" ends with "reason".

18 posted on 01/07/2020 6:06:56 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything yo have. Don't wait do it today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When it comes time, I wish to visit the New York Times.


19 posted on 01/07/2020 6:07:43 PM PST by Lazamataz (I cannot spare this man. I cannot spare President Trump. He fights.)
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To: SeekAndFind

don’t worry NTslimes. We got this. While you all sit around contemplating the date a pix of Solimani hits the cover of the rolling stone, complete with hippy beads and psychadelic background


20 posted on 01/07/2020 6:07:46 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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