As news of Iranian commander Quasem Soleimani’s killing spread, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on CNN last Friday morning to offer some explanation for the abrupt and inflammatory strike.
The wheels have fallen off the bus and are rolling down hill fast. And now Bibi is distancing himself from the Soleimani killing. Hmmm.
Endless lies.
So the relevant question is, “Were these imminent attacks likely to be more imminent than the ones we now expect after his assassination?”
“Imminent Threat.”
Pompeo and Trump must think the Soleimani strike was an episode of 24.
Starring Trump as Jack Bauer??
Please enlighten me.
I thought we didn’t target individuals so when we killed a target there was always some fig leaf of cover.
Happened to be in the compound etc…
Am I wrong?
Replace “Qasem Soleimani” with “Saddam Hussein,” and “imminent threat” with “weapons of mass destruction,” and suddenly it’s 2003 again.
How many other people were killed when we murdered Soleimani ? Who were they? And how many Americans will lose their lives when Iran retaliates?
So many questions.
WOW!!!
That was a BIG DEAL.
This will embolden others. Mike Bomb-peo never has understood that, with Trump, explanations are always losers.
It has something to do with substance, logic and rationality.
Does that really sound like something a seasoned General would have said? It sounds suspiciously like something Trump and his fleas would say.
He was at the airport, not on the battlefield. Moreover, if the threat was imminent then, it is even more imminent now. Moreover, we traded one combatant for lots of new volunteers. Moreover, shut up.
“Kill them all! Our God says to…wait, Soleimani? We didn’t have anything to do with that.”
The New York Times reported over the weekend that Pentagon officials offered Trump a whole host of options against Iran, tossing in killing of Soleimani as an extreme upper limit, to make the other actions more attractive. Trump reportedly wasn’t interested in the fatal drone strike until he watched the attack on the embassy unfold. By late Thursday, he shocked the officials by opting for the Soleimani attack.
Note to military advisers: do not offer “nuking from orbit” as an “extreme option” to try to encourage a lesser one. Trump only does extremes.
Yawn. Another thread of lies kicked off and running. Add it to the pile.
When you’ve lost BiBi… Very interesting.
Israel knows Iran better than anyone else in the region. This statement from Netanyahu is something. Also, Merkel and Putin are meeting sometime this week and will discuss the Soleimani hit.
Turns out the bully standing under a hornet’s nest doesn’t like it when his bully friend starts tossing large rocks at the nest from afar…
Oooohhhhh… Very nice burn.
“The terrorists are all gathered at Mar-A-Lago, Mr. President. You should refrain from doing anything about it, but blasting the place to smithereens is, of course, one option.”
To take it a step further…
Given that he was just one man in a military hierarchy that would be involved in the planning and execution of said attacks, how did killing one man stop any of the attacks already planned?