Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was caught “red-handed” plotting in Baghdad with another terrorist leader just before the U.S. launched the drone strike that killed him.
The Trump administration has this thing where they eventually settle on an argument that might sound facially plausible if it weren’t the third or four argument they’d tried.
If this explanation were true, Mr. Esper, you would have said that an hour after we killed him, not four days later.
Exactly.
This has the same stink of desperate after-the-fact scrambling to come up with something to say that everything they’ve said has.
Esper is but one official among many who not only failed to be a so_called adult in the room to stop Rump from shaking down Ukraine, but who was affirmatively in on it all along. He’s one among many who should be trusted as far as I could push a train.
“The fact of the matter is, Soleimani was caught red-handed on the ground in Baghdad, one terrorist leader of a terrorist organization meeting with another terrorist leader to synchronize and plan additional attacks on American forces, diplomats and facilities,” he said on CNN.
I’m making a bit of an assumption here, given how vague and ever-shifting (and shifty) the admin story is, but presumably this is a reference to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, also killed in the strike.
So, are we now considering Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces to be a terrorist organization? Teensy weensy little problem with that is that they’re also an important component of the fight against ISIS.
Oh, wait, I forgot. Our Very Stable Genius and Brilliant Military Leader has defeated ISIS, so no worries there any more.
This would be the same ISIS who were the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s forces after George W. Bolton Cheney’s excellent adventure?
Failing to learn from history would be an improvement. They aren’t even learning from recent memory.
This is the opposite of learning.
No - it’s as if we had never invaded a ME country based on a mountain of lies before.
When pressed on the immediacy of the threat, Esper said that he thinks the attack would have happened in “a matter of days, certainly no more than weeks.”
“Within months for sure, definitely within years maybe.”
And Kellyanne says we shouldn’t be talking about “hypotheticals” when asked about Trump’s own words threatening to commit war crimes by attacking cultural sites that have no military relevance.
Let us know when someone we actually respect confirms this.
Buh Buh Butt…Pompeo SAID he couldn’t provide that (very sensitive) specific information…
Is there a point where ‘just makin shit up’ causes people, even Trump supporters, to catch on to this gang of fools and idiots?
Or, shall I go out and look for more unicorns.
VOTE Here
They will wake up.
Go find unicorns
Also, if we actually killed two terrorist leaders in the same attack, Orange Voldemort would have been crowing that from the rooftops the moment we knew. If this is the first mention of it, it is an obvious and transparent attempt to paint a veneer of legitimacy over something that otherwise reeks of that Trump stank.
This notwithstanding the fact that yes, they must be counting al-Muhandis as a terrorist, and that in and of itself leads to even more questions.
Show us the evidence — unredacted. This is nothing more than multiple prevarications in search of a lame excuse.
"Somewhere around Tikrit - north, east, west or south. "
When is another known unknown.
These people have either left, retired, or have been hounded out.
“The fact of the matter is, Soleimani was caught red-handed on the ground in Baghdad, one terrorist leader of a terrorist organization meeting with another terrorist leader to synchronize and plan additional attacks on American forces, diplomats and facilities,”
…and there you have it, folks. Conclusive evidence of Weapons of Mass Discussion.
Exactly
They’re scrambling worse than a Saudi trying to explain why Khashoggi entered their consulate alive but never left alive.
Yeah! Like Colin Powell! Then we can have confidence it’s true.