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Average Ameriacn
Member
Sun Dec 29 15:00:40
With Hillary we would be now in another Benghazi situation, but Trump reacted quickly and totally destroyed the enemy!

http://www...-airstrikes-against-iraq-syria

US conducts airstrikes in Iraq, Syria after contractor killed, American troops injured in rocket attack


The U.S. military carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Sunday — days after a U.S. defense contractor was killed at a military compound in a rocket attack.

Military jet fighters conducted "precision defensive strikes" on five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, Jonathan Hoffman, a spokesperson for the Pentagon told Fox News. Two defense officials added that Air Force F-15 jet fighters carried out the strikes.

RELATED: U.S. TROOPS INJURED IN IRAQ ROCKET ATTACK THAT KILLED US CONTRACTOR, OFFICIALS SAY

U.S. officials have blamed the militia for a rocket barrage Friday that killed a U.S. defense contractor, wounded four U.S. troops and two members of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) near Kirkuk, in northern Iraq.


Military forces said the attackers fired more than 30 rockets in Friday's assault — the 11th rocket attack on U.S. and Iraqi forces since late October, according to a U.S. defense official.

Five locations — including three Kataeb Hezbollah areas in Iraq and two in Syria — were targeted, Hoffman said in a statement.

He said the U.S. strikes will weaken the group's ability to carry out future attacks on Americans and their Iraqi government allies.

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for two separate rocket attacks on the Baghdad International Airport, on Dec. 9 and 11, where U.S. and Iraqi forces are located on the other side of the commercial airport.

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Pompeo said if any Americans were harmed in the future, it would "be answered with a decisive U.S. response."

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., responded: "Today's strikes against Iranian-backed groups in Iraq and Syria are a justified response to the killing of an American and the wounding of several American service members and Iraqis. Tehran must stop attacking Americans or else face even graver consequences."
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sun Dec 29 16:39:28
have we taken the oil yet?
Dukhat
Member
Sun Dec 29 16:42:51
Trump helped make the problem worst by inviting more people to interfere in the Middle East when we were winning already before against ISIS. He betrayed the Kurds and somehow a few airstrikes is "winning."

Fucking imbecile.
Allahuakbar
Member
Mon Dec 30 09:03:17
Usanians you must expect heavy punishment:


http://the...militia-says-us-strikes-killed

Iranian-backed militia says US strikes killed 25, vow revenge
By Zack Budryk - 12/30/19 09:02 AM EST


An Iranian-backed militia on Monday vowed retaliation for U.S. strikes in Syria and Iraq, saying that the actions left 25 dead, according to The Associated Press.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed the strikes Sunday against Kata’ib Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq and Syria, after a rocket attack in Iraq that killed an American military contractor that the U.S. blamed on the militia, according to the AP.

“Our battle with America and its mercenaries is now open to all possibilities,”Kata’ib Hezbollah said in a statement around midnight Sunday, according to the AP. “We have no alternative today other than confrontation and there is nothing that will prevent us from responding to this crime.”

The militia has denied responsibility for a series of rocket attacks on U.S. bases, one of which killed the U.S. contractor

Militia spokesman Mohammed Mohieh told the AP the group would retaliate against the U.S. in a form to be determined by its commanders. “These forces must leave,” he said, in reference to the roughly 5,000 U.S. troops that remain in Iraq to aid Iraqi forces against ISIS.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi called the U.S. strikes an “obvious case of terrorism” that disregarded Iraqi sovereignty, while the Lebanon-based main Hezbollah organization called it “brutal American aggression” and said the U.S. “will soon discover how stupid this criminal decision was.”

Adel Abdul-Mahdi, who resigned as Iraq’s prime minister last month amid anti-government protesters but remains in a caretaker capacity, said he had spoken with Esper about half an hour before the U.S. strikes Sunday and that he had unsuccessfully tried to persuade the defense secretary to call off the strikes, according to the AP.
Dukhat
Member
Mon Dec 30 12:25:30
This attack was due to militants wanting revenge for re-imposed sanctions which everybody everybody opposed except Trump.

One of the biggest reasons people supported Trump was that he promised not to drag us into more pointless conflicts in the Middle East yet here we are.

And knee-jerk reactionary dumbfucks support it now because they are just that: reactionary dumbfucks.
kargen
Member
Mon Dec 30 15:56:28
You misspelled Asians again.
CrownRoyal
Member
Mon Dec 30 17:42:40
“Omg, Donald is on Al Qaeda side, America is helping ISIS, killing Assad’s allies and they want to have a nuclear war with Russia!!!”

I think I did it right
Forwyn
Member
Mon Dec 30 18:45:21
"inviting more people to interfere in the Middle East"

What party is now in the Middle East that wasn't there already?
Allahuakbar
Member
Tue Dec 31 05:37:05
Yankee go home!

http://edi...sts-us-embassy-intl/index.html

Protesters try to storm US embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes


Updated 1043 GMT (1843 HKT) December 31, 2019

Protesters attempted to storm the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, scaling the walls and forcing the gates of the compound, as hundreds demonstrated against American airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq.
Hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters marched through an area of the Iraqi capital that is usually restricted, with members of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, a coalition of predominantly Shiite militias, among them. Video and photos on social media show demonstrators smashing the windows of the embassy and burning items outside its walls.

The US carried out the airstrikes Sunday, in which at least 25 people were killed and 51 wounded. The strikes targeted five facilities controlled by Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria. Kataib Hezbollah is a militia group that falls under the Iran-backed Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.

The strikes represent the first significant US military response in retaliation for attacks by the militia group that have injured numerous American military personnel, according to US officials.
Iraq's government warned on Monday that its relations with the US were at risk following the strikes.
Habebe
Member
Tue Dec 31 06:12:55
Yeah, yanks come home.
Allahuakbar
Member
Tue Dec 31 06:25:20
LIVE VIDEO:
The beginning of the end of the USA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21P8rkuUYx0

LIVE | Iraqi protesters surround US embassy
Dukhat
Member
Tue Dec 31 09:47:14
Nobody wants to hear about Iraq anymore. I'm sure our military commanders and public are so happy to be wasting time with Iraq again. Fucking dumbass Trump turns everything into shit.
Forwyn
Member
Tue Dec 31 09:52:54
Lulz. Who was CiC again when the Iraqis got run out of Mosul by jihadi screamers?
Paramount
Member
Tue Dec 31 09:59:34
”Fucking dumbass Trump turns everything into shit.”

He is dumbass for sure but he is only doing what the Prince of ISIS and Netanyahu has paid him to do.
Average Ameriacn
Member
Thu Jan 02 03:38:11
Trump 2020!
Trump Jr. 2024/2028!

So true:
http://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1212376551465066496

Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr

It’s nice to wake up in a country who once again leads like they should. When our embassy’s is under attack & they ask for help they actually get it... Immediately!

Yesterday’s action vs the disgraceful response at Benghazi is all you need to know about leadership then & now!
3:14 PM · Jan 1, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Dukhat
Member
Thu Jan 02 05:52:29
All Foreskin does is whataboutism from a decade ago.

What a waste of money it was for him to get a college education.

Fucking imbecile.
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 11:30:25
Mosul wasn't retaken until well after Trump took office, you fucking retard.

This is recent history, driven by Obama/Hillary's intervention.

With any luck, history will note this fucking debacle as one of the worst foreign policy blunders ever.

After the retardation of the Iraq war, imagine losing half the country to headchoppers because you want to arm "moderate rebels" next door.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 11:56:55
"After the retardation of the Iraq war, imagine losing half the country to headchoppers because you want to arm "moderate rebels" next door."

what do you call this current bombing of assad's allies, done after the retardation of the Iraq war, plus the retardation of losing half the country blah blah? Triple retardation? These militias were fighting the headchoppers after all, no? Donald wants to lose half a country again?
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 12:10:06
Kowtowing to Israel/Saudis and hyping Iran up as the Middle Eastern big bad isn't a trend that started with Trump, but yes, I've called him a cuck on this issue before.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 12:19:45
triple retardation then, knowing what we know now, and using your standards.
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 13:11:48
Probably just double retardation, because Tulsi got in there early and got Trump to stop funneling anti-tank missiles to them.

2-1+1, assuming no special weights attached, which would only complicate the issue, of course
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 13:21:39
"Probably just double retardation, because Tulsi got in there early and got Trump to stop funneling anti-tank missiles to them."

word salad, this is US military fighting on the side of the headchoppers. And lol@ idea that Donald listens to some Dem congresswoman from Hawaii. You should be saying how, with any luck, history will note this fucking debacle as one of the worst foreign policy blunders ever. Only for consistency, of course
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 13:45:50
"this is US military fighting on the side of the headchoppers."

While Shias are somewhat better than Sunnis, we don't need to pretend that Kata'ib Hezbollah are saints.

This does not directly weaken Assad's position, nor that of Iraq.

"And lol@ idea that Donald listens to some Dem congresswoman from Hawaii."

Donald has a history of making decisions on the fly based on the advice of those who rub shoulders with him.

In this case, seems to just be muh Russia:

"Officials said Trump made the decision to scrap the CIA program nearly a month ago, after an Oval Office meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and national security adviser H.R. McMaster ahead of a July 7 meeting in Germany with Russian President Vladimir Putin."

"You should be saying how, with any luck, history will note this fucking debacle as one of the worst foreign policy blunders ever. Only for consistency, of course"

This is a retarded take, as bombing a small Shia paramilitary org will not lead to the fall of several major cities, deaths of hundreds of thousands, and exodus of millions more.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 13:56:02
"his does not directly weaken Assad's position, nor that of Iraq."

oh, good. Finally an acceptable reason for the US military to be fighting on the side of the headchoppers.

"This is a retarded take, as bombing a small Shia paramilitary org will not lead to the fall of several major cities, deaths of hundreds of thousands, and exodus of millions more."

I am only using your standards here. You lamented how Iraq lessons weren't learned, with horrible results, and helping the headchoppers ensued, with more horrible results. Imagine the retardation where the decision to attack is made, after disregarding BOTH disasters.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 14:01:43
and of course, lets not forget here that Donald clearly wants to have a nuclear war with Russia, why else wouyld he be bombing russia's allies. Let me help you forwyn, it is funny to see all the contortions you twist yourself into, while trying to explain how it is now ok for america to battle on a side of Al Qaeda. Just imagine it is president hillary who is in charge.
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 14:26:21
I fail to see where Trump, in all of his retardation and cuckish knee-bending, has advocated for a no-fly zone, regime change, and funnelled billions of dollars to headchoppers.

You quickly went from slightly amusing to vegetative-level retardation.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 14:39:23
"I fail to see where Trump, in all of his retardation and cuckish knee-bending, has advocated for a no-fly zone, regime change, and funnelled billions of dollars to headchoppers."


You fail to see many things, selectively, as usual. Lets stick to what we do know. Donald attacks assad allies, meaning he wants a regime change. Donald is fighting alongside Al qaeda because he is a huge warmonger and even willing to risk a nuclear war with russia, in order to do it. Horrible stuff, overall. And, as you said, how much more fuckin retarded this bombing is, than anything else, just because the previous lesson not learned. Two lessons not learned, really
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 14:52:17
Okay. Continue on in your farcical retardation. You don't need my help.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 14:57:32
You need my help though, to see things clearly, and I am glad to be of assistance.
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 15:13:50
I don't really need assistance to see the difference between Timber Sycamore/stumping on a NFZ in a sovereign nation/campaigning for regime change, and bombing an inconsequential militia group that attacked us first.
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 15:36:25
“ and bombing an inconsequential militia group that attacked us first.”

Oh,that might be good. Where did that attack occur?
Forwyn
Member
Thu Jan 02 15:49:16
Not Iran
CrownRoyal
Member
Thu Jan 02 15:52:01
No, where did the attack on American interests occurred, the one that makes Donald ordering US military to help AQ not that bad?
Dukhat
Member
Fri Jan 03 00:37:44
Foreskin owned so bad and tries to gaslight his way out of it.

Him and Trump are tea peas in a fucking retarded pod.
Forwyn
Member
Fri Jan 03 01:01:58
Cuckhat comes in spouting about gaslighting, like the fucking retard he is. "Giving anti-tank missiles to Al Nusra is the same as bombing guys who shoot rockets at your bases. Stop gaslighting me!"
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 06:40:18
“Damn it, if Donald decides to fight on the side of AL Nusra in syria, then so be it. It is not like I whined about any American military action that attacked Assad for years here. Oh, I did whine? Never mind then. But we need to kill people for shooting rockets at our military bases, it is not like I constantly whined about the Iraq invasion, supposedly a disaster, we must practice reciprocity. This is why I supported killing Ghaddaffi for example, reciprocity for killing those American boys in Berlin, motherfucker. Oh, I didn’t care about reciprocity back then? Never mind again.”

Forwyn explains things .
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 06:44:16
Are they burning Trump doll in effigy in your house, Forwyn? Can you imagine, after the lessons of Iraq and Syria, Donald goes and kills the guy who is most responsible for keeping assad in power? I can’t believe it, it looks like Wahhabis took over American presidency, you must be in mourning

http://www...rian-assault-in-moscow-2015-10
Forwyn
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:20:45
"Oh, you opposed the Iraq invasion? Then you must, for consistency's sake, support the proliferation of shaped charges to Iraqi insurgents to cause American deaths."

CR trolls, badly.
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:30:39
Oh, don't be bashful here, for you this goes way beyong Iraq invasion. Name one cause that is more dear to you than bashing hillary for syria. But, better late than never, you finally found it in you to support Al Nusra, and retarded assad regime change.
Forwyn
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:35:52
"Anyone who ever fought on the side of the Assad regime has a blank check to kill Americans, be consistent Forwyn"
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:48:51
For you, caring about punishing people with american blood on their hands became fashionable only until Donald's persidency, I already mentioned your fervent lack of support for killing the Lybian Colonel, who had american blood on his hands. Same with assad regime change, that stupid talking point that you pestered everyone here with, for years. "Waa, waa, damn that bloodthirsty saudite hillary and her regime change, waa! Wait, what? Donald killed the guy who is the main reason why assad regime is still in place? Oh, never mind then, fuck that retard."
Forwyn
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:53:14
Ah yes, that's why we helped out the guys who would later sodomize Gaddafi in a ditch and preside over the open-air sale of black slaves, because of terror attacks in the eighties

Keep going CR
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:55:23
"Ah yes, that's why we helped out the guys who would later sodomize Gaddafi in a ditch and preside over the open-air sale of black slaves, because of terror attacks in the eighties"


What, thats it? It took 15 minutes for you to stop caring about american blood on people's hands?
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 09:55:42
meybe there is an expiration date
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 10:01:30
I am actually trying to help clear up things for you here, forwyn. It would look better for you if you stop pretending having principles. It just sounds unconvincing when you drop your principles once your guy is wiping his ass with them, only to pick them up once democrats are in charge. Like, remember how you pretended to be that strict constitutionalist? Now you are reduced to arguing here that Donald spending money that congress refused to authorize, is ok, you found a loophole! Oh, how the mightly constitutionalists have fallen
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 10:02:18
I know, I know, trump is a cuck, you said it before
Forwyn
Member
Fri Jan 03 10:13:51
I mean, it would be totally cool for a President in 2044 to drop a Hellfire missile on the house of Erdogan's son, as retaliation for the beating of US protesters in 2017

But sure, Kataib Hezbollah was only retaliating for Flight 655, or maybe Mossadegh, who knows, we have to support retaliation for events we weren't alive for now, keep going
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 10:19:30
"I mean, it would be totally cool for a President in 2044 to drop a Hellfire missile on the house of Erdogan's son, as retaliation for the beating of US protesters in 2017"

I wouldn't use the word cool and I wouldn't punish children. But yes, only if punishing people with american blood on their hands is what drives you, if this is your principled stance, then yep, whatever the more appropriate word than cool is. If you just pretending to have principles, then no, this is stupid

Forwyn
Member
Fri Jan 03 11:02:56
One, Bilal is older than I am and was involved in illicit Syrian oil trade.

Two, people are typically not driven by only one motivation, and proportionate responses are also a factor. Striking the camp that just mortared your base, not outlandish. Droning a senior commander on the tarmac of a third country, perhaps another story.
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 11:41:33
" Striking the camp that just mortared your base, not outlandish. Droning a senior commander on the tarmac of a third country, perhaps another story."

You keep giving me reasons why you choose to disregard your principles, explaning nuances and different shades of grey, finding loopholes. According to you, there are times when people with american blood on their hands should be killed, and other times when they should not be. Which is fine, but this is why I advised you to drop this retarded pretense of having principles. Who is going to take your argument about american blood seriously, when you can just turn around and drop it, when it suits you? You selectively give a shit about about regime change policy or about avenging americans, or about the constitution. Which, again, is fine, partisans do it all the time. But you saying that you are against a regime change policy, for example, can't be met with anything other than laughter.
CrownRoyal
Member
Fri Jan 03 11:45:33
"One, Bilal is older than I am and was involved in illicit Syrian oil trade."

whatever the fuck this means, I am not sure. I already said that, if avenging americans is your principled stance, then yes, you should be for killing everyone with american blood on their hands.
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