Iraqi TV: Iran’s Gen. Soleimani killed in Baghdad strike

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  1. Hoosier8

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    Yet here you are believing everything Iran says.
     
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    Your premise is false.
     
  3. Hoosier8

    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I know, poor Iran.
     
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    Saddam created the problems in Iraq first by invading sovereign countries then sponsoring terrorism in foreign countries then violating the terms of the cease-fire under which he had remained in office.
     
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    Super... wouldn't want to be accused of being a hypocrite...
     
  6. camp_steveo

    camp_steveo Well-Known Member

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    I'm not accusing you of that, but your comment about Trump dying was pretty bad. I would refrain from that with rare exception.
     
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    That's something I've noticed over and over on this forum; the left holds off until they are issued the opinions they're supposed to have. As far as I can tell from this thread, they had to wait until The Last Word on MSNBC to find out what they thought.
     
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    Such confidence.

    It won't help, that's for sure. Definitely not an easy situation.

    Trumps tweets about Obama are a bit prescient now...
     
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    And you’re trusting the deep state.
     
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    “Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time,” Trump said. He went on to mock fellow Republican Bush, sarcastically calling him a “real genius” over his decision to invade Iraq.

    He also scorned the CIA over its flawed information about Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein harboring weapons of mass destruction.
     
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    And what business was it of ours?
     
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    Uh, pretty sure everyone thought this was a disaster as soon as it happened. Didn't Trump run on how stupid Iraq was? Yes, yes he did. And now we just killed the top general in Iran, which is four times the size of Iraq.

    Do you see the obvious disconnect?
     
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    OK so your prediction is that we go to war against Iran. Can you give me a time frame for the war to start?
     
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    Self-Defense.
     
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    Correct and spot on. IMO the biggest reason North Korea wont trust us to denuclarize is because of what we did to quadaffi. Obama said to trust us, he did and we bomembed the **** out of him and threw his country into a civil war where they have slave auctions.
     
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    Middle Eastern cultures have been at war for 5,000 years. To blame that on the U.S. is preposterous.
     
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    We can do it. What makes you think Iran cant?

    Germany sold 20 steerable cavitation torpedos to Iran when Schröder was chancellor. This was in 1999 when Khatami was president of Iran and had great relations with Germany.

    Its a matter of fact that our cavitation torpedos cant be stopped, since they reach supersonic speeds under water. It doesnt even need to hit an carrier. The imploding cavitation bubble alone creates such enormous shockwaves that any ships keel breaks.

    We dont know what the status of those 20 torpedo is. If they are still functional or not. Or if Iran reverse engineered them.
     
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    Hold on, I personally don't support the government and therefore am not mourning Gen. Soleimani, but many Iranians do mourn him, even if pretentiously.
     
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    There were mass demonstrations months ago with millions of participants. While the people starved the Shah ordered 4 Concorde.

    The Shah was not a good leader. He did not have the respect of the people. He had no honor and no dignity. His own wife says so and she should know.
     
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    The last war we won was in 1999.

    That said, so you say the german embassy in Washington is german territory?
     
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    Oh brother....

    Those have a range of 180km and have a speed of 400km/h.
    The Iranians wouldn't even have the time to fire them as they would be turned into an artificial reef way before they got into range.
     
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    Like hell we do. If Iran wants a country that is 90 sunni let them have the headache. Let the Iraqi, Syrians, Palistitaians, Arabs, Jordanians, Jews etc straighten it out among themselves. We are not the arbiter of good taste and we don't pick who is right or wrong.
     
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    That's right about Trump, he keep tweeting that Obama was going to start a war with Iran to help his election in 2012. Also, this incident goes against Trump's pacifist doctrine of getting out of long wars.

    Now let's see how much smarter he is than all those generals.
     
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    Are you suggesting he got Iran to attack our embassy for a distraction?
     

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