Posted on 01/08/2020 2:21:55 AM PST by C19fan
“They killed 80 Demonrats ?”
No they said “Americans”.
None were intercepted?
I doubt that.
This has to be a day of celebration for Amy Bin Goodman.
Tehran Timmy
“All your base are belong to us!”
“Surrender, Dorothy!”
“Trump’s best move now is to ask Congress for an authorization of military force. If Congress doesn’t give him one, the consequences of the next Iranian attack will be on them.”
Putting the blame for failure on someone else is a loser strategy, and I don’t think President Trump is a loser or thinks that way. You’re talking about giving your power to someone else and then blaming them for your failure. No, you do whatever you have to do to solve the problem. While you’re playing games how many Americans get killed in the attack? How far would Trump get with a defense of “well I told you”?
Boom!
Another Mullah done gone.
Reagan did not attack the USSR to take down the wall.
He laid the groundwork for the USSR to fail economically. Then the wall fell eight months after he was out of office.
He gets the credit, and rightfully so.
Trump has already put in motion the economic measures to cause the government of Iran serious problems.
He has had his chance as you say, and has done exactly what he should have.
He has also taken decisive action against their top two terrorist thug managers.
He’s got nothing to prove at this point. He’s already proven himself.
We have word of people being forced to attend the funeral and being executed if they didn’t plan to.
There were people in the street celebrating this guy’s death.
Now you tell us people there are upset we killed a guy who ordered 1500 people shot dead for protesting in the streets, and wounding countless others?
Sorry, not buying that at all.
Taking down the leadership of Iran will in no way be a loss for the US, and the destruction of their nuclear and missile programs will be a massive win both regionally and beyond.
I didn’t say people are upset. What I did say is that “there is still outrage that an Iranian general was killed so openly.”
Many didn’t like him, but it would be the same as if, say Iran killed Obama today. We hate that SOB, but he’s OUR sob.
That’s the sentiment among the people I know. There are probably people really mourning him and quite definitely people celebrating his death - but the majority are, in my opinion, those who are “meh, but this was our Son of a... who was killed, so that pisses me off, temporarily”
The ones celebrating his death are a mix of Sunnis in Arabestan, some Kurds and also a large chunk (perhaps even the majority) of the Persians whose families left in 1979.
“Taking down the leadership of Iran will in no way be a loss for the US, and the destruction of their nuclear and missile programs will be a massive win both regionally and beyond.”
If the taking down is done subtly so it seems like the Iranians did it themselves, then a massive win for the USA
A war will not serve us well — look at the Iraq mess.
Destruction of their nukes and missiles is a good idea - as is the destruction of the “Islamic nuclear bomb” - Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal
Someone is gunning down my family, friends, fellow citizens, I don’t care if the Ayatollah kills him.
I’ve seen the networks play up this dynamic before. I have no doubt some Iranians feel that way, but I’m not convinced it’s the majority.
I’m sitting here trying to think up an entity that could take out Hillary Clinton, that I would be angry at.
Iraq is no longer a threat to the West. It’s no longer a threat to it’s neighbors. To the extent it’s a problem now, we can attribute at least part of it to Iran.
We lost 8 of our troops in Iraq in 2019.
While any is too many, Iraq is not the massive problem folks make it out to be.
As for the Muslim bomb, Pakistan has not handed tech off to Islamic Fundamentalists. The real danger there is the Taliban gaining control of their nuclear program. I suspect we have a contingency program should that seem imminent.
Iraq was never really a threat to the West. AT best it was hot air.
In 1990 it was a threat to the Saudis and the Iranians. The Saudi king snapped his fingers and his “blue eyed blonde American slaves jumped and died for him” (his words).
If Gulf war 1 had not happened, then Saddam would be threatening the Saudis for more money to fight Iran, the Ayatollahs and the Saudi Mullahs would be too preoccupied to create Madrassas across the world - no 9/11, no refugee crisis, no Islamic state, no Taliban.
“As for the Muslim bomb, Pakistan has not handed tech off to Islamic Fundamentalists. “
It has done so - giving them to jihadis fightin Afghanistan and India
The only People they killed were the Passengers and Crew on that Ukrainian Airliner they shot down.
You have to look at the man’s history. He killed his own people. He used nerve gas on the Kurds. He attacked Iran and estimates are that both nations lost about 250,000 people each. He invaded Kuwait. He fired scud missiles into Saudi Arabia and Israel.
After the first war he refused to let inspectors in. The U. N. inspector stated for the record he thought that Hussein had WMDs. Europeans, Americans, even the Leftists in the U. S. thought so.
The man paid the families of suicide bombers in Israel $25,000 dollars each.
His plan when invading Kuwait, was to continue along the coast and become the ruler of the peninsula. He would not only have then in control of a very large portion of the world’s oil supply, but also the Straights of Hormuz, and the waterway crucial to oil deliveries.
You don’t think that would have been of concern to Europe?
Perhaps you don’t agree, but a lot of folks have morphed into supporters of the idea that Europe should take care of it’s own business. They want them to develop a world-class army and take over from us when their interests are threatened. I stridently disagree.
We do not want another European instigated war.
Those people haven’t a lick of sense when it comes to valid threats to them. They get upset and go nuts. It’s has cost the world millions of lives several times.
I’m not interested in a repeat.
Yes, we spend our treasury now. It’s a pittance to what a world war costs.
We have the ability to pay our national debt down, but the Leftists want only to spend, and I’m not addressing formal party lines either. We have plenty of big spenders on the right.
Some things like our military and global peace, are a necessity. Other handouts and graft aren’t.
It has not handed off nuclear tech to anyone.
That was the topic.
1. He was a monster, yes, but he was a secular monster
2. We didn’t go to war because he was a monster, rather because he was threatening Saudia and the Saudi’s snapped their fingers.
3. I’m talking about the first war - that was the start of the mistake. After that, all the errors happened
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