Posted on 02/01/2024 8:46:57 PM PST by Angelino97
The United States is poised to launch strikes in Iraq and Syria against targets that include Iranian personnel and facilities, according to senior U.S. officials.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he had made up his mind on how to respond to the drone strike in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border that killed three American soldiers and wounded more than 40.
The U.S. blamed the drone attack on Iran-backed militants.
On Thursday, CBS News reported that plans for days of strikes had been approved.
Biden's top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said on Monday the U.S. response 'could be multi-leveled, come in stages, and be sustained over time.'
In its report, CBS did not provide details on what a U.S. approval meant in terms of a timeline for the strikes.
The drone attack was the first deadly strike against U.S. forces since the Israel-Gaza war erupted in October, and marked an escalation in tensions that have engulfed the Middle East.
U.S. officials have to weigh how to punish Iran-backed militias without triggering a wider war. They have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Iran.
And they have pointed to Kataib Hezbollah as the group behind Sunday's drone attack.
It is considered the most powerful faction in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a broad grouping of Iran-backed militias.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said: 'This particular attack was egregious … the attack was on the sleeping area of our base.
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5,000 for each for those sitting duck aircraft carriers. Adds up real quick.
Well, they’ve given Iranian personnel plenty of time to get safely back to Iran.
Because, apparently Iran is the safest place to be.
Biden’s wars aren’t meant to be won
they are meant to be continuous
Election year war, how patriotic, icy hot stuntz
Has he faxxed them the dates, times and locations yet?
Step One: announce your military attack to the media.
There was a story on Al Jazeera that the USA requested an Iranian target to hit for a symbolic attack.
The most significant of the rumors states that US has tried to ‘quietly’ send signals to Iran via Swiss embassy back channels, which is the main go-to method they’ve used for a long time:
> It was reported, that the U.S. offered through the Swiss embassy to Iran, to strike one of their sites but Iran should not retaliate. This would allow the US to save face. Looks like it was REJECTED:
“The US sent more than one message to Tehran over the past two days via third parties. Washington’s messages said that it did not want an open war and warned that expanding the war would be met with the US action. Tehran rejected Washington’s threats and said targeting its territory is a red line, and crossing the line would be met with an appropriate response. Tehran’s message said that it does not want a war with Washington either, but it will forcefully confront any American adventure.” — Iranian sources to AJArabic
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-13124-secret-back-channel
Soleimani was an IranRevolutionaryGuardCorps Mullah terrorist responsible for a LOT of US military deaths,
you good with that, dumbassIDIOT ?
Can you say A-R-C L-I-G-H-T?
Boys, girls, and other.
Hit Kharg Island.
Not with Joe Biden in power, anyway. Half of the country thinks he stole the election. None of the straight white men I know would fight for His Fraudulency. I doubt the neocon war pigs could scrape together enough communists, gangbangers, gender benders, illegal aliens, and sexual deviants to overrun and occupy Iran, much less Russia. The aforementioned demographic is largely incompatible with military service, especially with Israel as an ally...
But not Iran.
Welcome to World War 3. The problem, “Joe” is that we have sympathetic (and possibly Iranian) troops here, right now, thanks to the #JihadJunta and you. Are Americans sufficiently armed and trained to fight back? We’ll see, won’t we?
“Soleimani was obliterated”
Actually, Soleimani was obliterated on the airport road coming from the Military airport (Mil-BIAP). The same road and location his agents planted IEDs and attacked Americans on. Combined Air Operations Center had a sense of justice.
No one is g9ving the RNC money....its all going to Trump...problemo...BUahahahahaha.
The RINOS lose and are starving.
Ronna McDaniel is captain of a sinking ship.She closed the wointer meeting to the press.
Ronna has got to go.
What we are not seeing is the death of RINOworld.
Biden is metering his strikes and sowing then so he can publish a list f intended targets and strike times....Obama did that.
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See this:
Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin Nails Biden and Austin on Telegraphing to the Iranians About Strike Locations
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4214488/posts
“I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such an incompetent group in my lifetime as the Biden administration.
We were given fair warning about Joe Biden from Obama’s Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. In his 2014 memoir, Gates said the then-vice president had “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Now make that five decades, and add he’s been wrong about virtually every major foreign policy issue so far that he’s faced during his presidency. Gates doubled down on those claims during a 2021 interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” saying, “I think he’s gotten a lot wrong,” specifically mentioning the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Now we’re faced with yet another situation due to Biden’s bad foreign policy, this time with Iran and the militants they use to fight us. There have been more than 160 attacks on U.S. forces or assets, with three people killed now and dozens injured over those assaults, some with possible traumatic brain injuries. Yet, the Biden response has been largely impotent and has not cowed Iran or the militants.
Not only hasn’t Biden responded yet to the attack on the troops in Jordan by Kataib Hezbollah in which 3 American troops were killed and more than 30 were injured, but Biden’s team has listed possible targets in such detail as to raise questions about telegraphing to the enemy. “
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“Iran backed”.
Is there an explanation as to what this specifically entails?
The news sure came out fast about Iran backed.
So fast, there wasn’t even a named group of militants blamed.
Good thing we took out Saddam and created a power vacuum.
Why do we have any troops in Jordan, Iraq, and Syria?
Maybe sitting ducks are sitting on purpose.
Maybe sitting ducks are used to foment war.
Just like ships floating around the Red Sea, etc.
biden is not fit to make ANY decisions... and he’s been in 2 situations ending in a war...
I would not want to be called to serve under the 2 who are co presidents.. neither care for our country.. and neither have any record for knowing anything about a war..
our country is void of any good old fashioned love for country and it’s citizens... divided we stand.. and 2 generations of easy living with no war to attend to or serve in... plus leaderless and lawless..
“. We can’t afford to replace it.”
Funny ... sort of ... sad ? very .... true ? yes
Just goes to show , life is stranger then fiction.
I understand an other 6 billion is being released to iran ..
We need to blow up more old stuff so everyone can upgrade. good times.
Empty warehouses and peace workers picking up water for their homes with kids in the car, beware. Righteous air strikes incoming.
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