The White House described protesters’ attack of the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad as an “escalation” on Tuesday, but it was unclear what if any action President Donald Trump would take in response.
F’ing hard to talk tough from a golf course…
Just par for the course with Donnie…
Donald J. Trump: Speak bigly and carry a soft stick.
The protesters’ ability to storm the embassy area suggested “at least tacit permission” from Iraqi security officials
I think I’ve seen this show before. Some neighboring country where we also overthrew the government some 18 years prior…
Not good enough - I want 11 straight hours of Congressional testimony and endless cries of “Baghdad.”
And tough guy talk on Twitter. Bet they’re really scared now.
I’d rather have him on the golf course than trying to “president.” There’s less chance of apocalyptic damage…
He can talk as tough as he wants. Besides being a loudmouth and an idiot, Trump has too many political problems at home and to many screw-ups abroad to be effective… the moment he attacks Iran, North Korea will start making trouble. Russia and China will also try to take advantage in some way.
“We strongly responded” and then outsourced responsibility to “Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy.” Clearly a well thought out response by the Commander-in-Chief who knows more than the generals do, believe me,
Yeah he spent I don’t know how much time trying to determine who had “liked” a Chelsea Clinton tweet while the embassy was burning I read.
That’s Presidenting Trump-style.
I. Want. Hearings.
The graffito beneath the window suggests (if it is genuine) that these are not just “protesters.”
WhY shoulD ameriCa paY for it? Like thE waLL.
I am a bit confused… that Embassy cost at least 500 million I would have expected something that wasn’t easily breached by protesters without tanks and bulldozers…
But again the whole Iraq war was nothing but a humongous exercise of wealth transfer from the US taxpayers to the Military Contractors, who didn’t even bother to reinvest the money in the US, but squirreled away in Dubai and Doha (see the skyline of those cities before and after the war), Uber-Mercenary Erik Prince even lives over there.
Protestors rarely dress in camouflage, which means this was likely a militia attack on the embassy. Shades of Benghazi, except this embassy should have been rock solid…I haven’t read beyond this article yet, if it was just unarmed protesters then the troops there wouldn’t have fired, and without police they could have been overwhelmed.
It still looks bad…the Iraqis have plenty of reasons to do this and want us out, even without the Iranian influence that the invasion has allowed to happen. GWB really blew it listening to the guys that were pissed his father didn’t invade in 1991, and now it’s a mess that we can’t seem to shake without losing access to the Middle East.
Is there anyone left, in the world, who is afraid of Trump?
He now has at least 1000 deferments.
This will be much easier than dealing with Mexico. “We want to keep the oil. $45 million a month? Keep the oil.” Easy peasy, just like winning trade wars.
Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP who are trying to keep their seats.
Other than them - NO!
Yeah, the seeds of this debacle were laid 18 - 19 years ago. The foreign policy disaster that just keeps giving.
Trump’s campaign strategy includes starting a war and the MSM is going to help him get one.
