On Tuesday night, Iran fired over a dozen missiles at two military bases in Iraq where U.S. troops are based in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s lethal strike on Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
IMPOTUS is a delusional dickhead, who, I hope and pray, will be thwarted in his attempts to drag us all kicking and screaming into WWIII.
‘All is Well’…in the garden.
Trump: I’m drawing a line here and daring you to step over it.
Iran: Oh hey look we’re stepping over it.
Trump: Gosh, will you look at the time? Good night, all, I’m heading upstairs.
He means he is safe and protected and none of his properties were damaged.
We can sleep at night because “The Donald” is in charge.
the abomination will explain to the masses why it’s a good thing to send their sons and daughters to die in order to bolster his re-election chances. 40% of the masses will applaud.
I’d like to know the tick tock of the announcement then walk back of a Presidential address last night.
Are we distracted yet? Seriously though, staying at a trump property is seeming like a dicey proposition.
Did you read that the American contractor that was killed was actually an Iraqi born naturalized American citizen as of about 3 years ago. Apparently his body has been flown back to California.
From WaPo
Ukraine-bound Boeing plane crashes in Iran, killing everyone on board
Another coincidence anyone?
“So far, so good!”
WTF does that mean?!? `…so good!’?
I can’t speak to any tick tock but when everyone is looking at you and you don’t say anything it’s often because you just don’t know what to say. Other administrations are typically as planful as any organization that ever was; everything is gamed out. These apes hadn’t considered this possibility, I suppose. The silence speaks volumes.
Iranian’s must have seen that Trump’s a bigger threat to America than missiles and missed. Iran has precision missile capability. Just about everybody does. If you launch a dozen missiles and kill no one ( which is what’s being reported ) that was your intent. Prop up Trump.
I groaned when I heard he might speak, but then realized he probably wouldn’t be able to get it together well enough at that point to speak in even his usual incoherent manner. It was a relief when someone pulled the plug.
Also, they needed more time to come up with alternate facts that make our “great and glorious leader” look good after his really stupid decision to kill Soleimani.
Good luck with that.
I’m sorta hoping that if he commands an invasion, the generals will just ignore him.
Hmm. Might very well be he’s in bad enough shape generally that he can’t speak without various kinds of preparation, drugs, etc. I can’t remember too many times when you had a situation like this and the president just heads off to bed. I’m pretty sure famous dementia-watcher Tom Joseph will have thoughts.
It sounds like Iran did this for local consumption, they now have their revenge even though they did not hit anything of importance (probably on purpose). They will now proceed to develop nuclear weapons, at which point the rest of the world will have to step lightly around them.
Iran’s leaders are more sober and sensible than ours. Consider that one for a moment.
Looks to me like something the Iranians intended for domestic political consumption. We punched back, struck directly and openly against the United States, but in a way calculated to not actually escalate the conflict and put the regime’s stability at risk.
Little bitty Cuban Missile Crisis for the new roaring 20s.
edit: sniped by greenman
Agree with you and @greenman. This was cleverly played. They know we don’t want a real war. They understand Trump as well as anyone. So they found a way to bash him in the mouth, to humiliate him, all the while gambling we don’t want it to escalate.
Just wait for Netanyahoo to gets involved. There are simply too many populous idiots in control of matters, and that scares the FS out of me. Things will likely slowly escalate until someone decides to end it with a catastrophic lack of judgement.
It’s all sort of Twilight Zone – and has been since Jan 2017. But it’s getting progressively worse.