Pentagon launched airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, Defense Sec. Mark Esper says

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Great move and good riddance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/defense-secretary-says-iran-and-its-proxies-may-be-planning-fresh-attacks-on-us-personnel-in-iraq/2020/01/02/53b63f00-2d89-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html

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Rest in pieces.

 

I don't feel bad for him, but it's impossible not to also focus on how the Americans lives lost in Iraq from this guy could've been prevented, lest we get too distracted with the "momentary" issues.

 

This wouldn't be something the US would be dealing with if pile of garbage GWB, Cheney, Congress, and co. didn't put us there in Iraq to begin with, fully knowing Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 (and seriously deviated from going after those responsible for 9/11), this was their contrived war fetish. Those deaths, these trillions of dollars spent, the damage to international reputation, American safety, the additional conflicts, that may well result in a war with Iran, are the results of this one choice over a decade and a half ago. Bush should be rotting in Guantanamo with these terrorists. The families of fallen soldiers who died so needlessly, and American society who are paying for the utterly moronic and reckless choices of one administration to fabricate cause for a war, deserve justice.

Edited January 3, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

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2 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Rest in pieces.

 

I don't feel bad for him, but it's impossible not to also focus on how the Americans lives lost in Iraq from this guy could've been prevented, lest we get too distracted with the "momentary" issues.

 

This wouldn't be something the US would be dealing with if pile of garbage GWB, Cheney, Congress, and co. didn't put us there in Iraq to begin with, fully knowing Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 (and seriously deviated from going after those responsible for 9/11), this was their contrived war fetish. Those deaths, these trillions of dollars spent, the damage to international reputation, American safety, the additional conflicts, that may well result in a war with Iran, are the results of this one choice over a decade and a half ago. Bush should be rotting in Guantanamo with these terrorists. The families of fallen soldiers who died so needlessly, and American society who are paying for the utterly moronic and reckless choices of one administration to fabricate cause for a war, deserve justice.

Meh...none of that, not a single thing has anything to do with soleimani. Guy's been in charge of exporting terror on Iran's behalf for decades, time for him to go

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But President Trump did not consult with Queen Nancy first.  Impeach Trump!

 

Seriously though, great response to what has gone on in the past week.  Good riddance.

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Cannot make this stuff up.

 

Rose McGowan tweets apology to Iran for killing Soleimani, says US is 'held hostage by terrorist regime'

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rose-mcgowan-twitter-apology-iran-killing-suleimani-usa-held-hostage-terrorist-regime

 

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3 hours ago, OriZ said:

Meh...none of that, not a single thing has anything to do with soleimani. Guy's been in charge of exporting terror on Iran's behalf for decades, time for him to go

Duh, which is why I said I don't feel bad for him, his fate is well deserved, but without this fraud war that's made the US less safe, more Americans aren't in Iraq to die on his behalf. So it does "have anything to do with" him.

Edited January 3, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

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2 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Duh, which is why I said I don't feel bad for him, his fate is well deserved, but without this fraud war that's made the US less safe, more Americans aren't in Iraq to die on his behalf. So it does "have anything to do with" him.

All you're saying is that you truly believe he would not have come after you elsewhere. That's where we disagree.

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1 minute ago, OriZ said:

All you're saying is that you truly believe he would not have come after you elsewhere. That's where we disagree.

That's entirely presumption, we don't know where he'd go.. whereas the US not being in Iraq means Soleimani isn't killing hundreds of US soldiers in Iraq because there's no US soldiers put there to kill. The AUMF authorized the US government to take him out specifically. Clearly he wasn't much of a priority, despite the havoc he was wreaking all these years, which also speaks to the competency and intent of the Bush administration, and to a degree, the Obama administration.

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A dead terrorist can rarely cause us future problems.

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Ben Rhodes Is Suddenly Interested in Congressional Authorization
 

Former national security adviser Ben Rhodes, the architect of the Iran nuclear deal, purposely structured the JCPOA as a treaty that was not a treaty because he and his boss, President Obama, had no intention whatsoever of doing with the JCPOA what the Constitution mandates for all treaties, which is to obtain the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Rhodes and Obama simply rammed through what was in effect a treaty without seeking the approval of even one Senator.

 

 

 

Yet here is Rhodes after the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the secretive Iranian Quds force that sows mischief (and kills Americans, and ordered the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad) outside Iran’s borders.

Congress has to assert itself and determine exactly what our Iran policy is. Did we mean to do this? Do we have any plan for what comes next? What is the legal basis for all this?

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) January 3, 2020
 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ben-rhodes-is-suddenly-interested-in-congressional-authorization/

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