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NSFW… Live tweet of the explosions that killed Soleimani
Im supposed to take the kids to Disney World in five weeks. I’m a little nervous about it now.
Nah, there is some faltering amongst evangelicals that Trump blows. My family are basically evangelical and I had a frank discussion with my mom over the holidays about Trump. She was like, “he is terrible, I don’t undestand why so many people in our church support him.” I was like, “oh, that’s good to hear, yeah, he’s terrible. I won’t ever vote for him.” Me: “so, would you ever vote for Elizabeth Waren?” Her: “no” Me: “Please, just don’t vote.” End of conversation.
In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the option of killing him — which they viewed as the most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq — on the menu they presented to President Trump.
They didn’t think he would take it. In the wars waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon officials have often offered improbable options to presidents to make other possibilities appear more palatable.
After initially rejecting the Suleimani option on Dec. 28 and authorizing airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Shia militia group instead, a few days later Mr. Trump watched, fuming, as television reports showed Iranian-backed attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad, according to Defense Department and administration officials.
By late Thursday, the president had gone for the extreme option. Top Pentagon officials were stunned.
Mr. Trump made the decision, senior officials said on Saturday, despite disputes in the administration about the significance of what some officials said was a new stream of intelligence that warned of threats to American embassies, consulates and military personnel in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence were two of the most hawkish voices arguing for a response to Iranian aggression, according to administration officials. Mr. Pence’s office helped run herd on meetings and conference calls held by officials in the run-up to the strike.
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The last time the United States killed a major military leader in a foreign country was during World War II, when the American military shot down the plane carrying the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
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Administration officials insisted they did not anticipate sweeping retaliation from Iran, in part because of divisions in the Iranian leadership.
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When Mr. Trump chose the option of killing General Suleimani, top military officials, flabbergasted, were immediately alarmed about the prospect of Iranian retaliatory strikes on American troops in the region. It is unclear if General Milley or Mr. Esper pushed back on the president’s decision.
They literally ran the playbook from the West Wing episode “A Proportionate Response”, and were shocked (SHOCKED!) when the most unstable President in history went for the scorched-earth option and wouldn’t be talked off of it.
Remember when the Pentagon was supposed to rein in Trump and keep everything on an even keel? Yeah, me neither.
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Don’t worry though if he sends the message for the big bad button press assuredly someone will disobey and bring sanity to the situation.
“they didn’t think he would take it” Have you spent 30 seconds with this guy before? FFS
these are the same people who are supposed to come up with the gameplan for major wars and they’re too dumb to figure out THIS president?
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How many missiles did they hit him with?
Same. The very misogyny that elevates Trump is what protects her, but only as long as he’s president. Trumpism doesn’t really allow for Ivanka to shine without Trump as the figurehead.
But there I go again trying to apply logic and reason in a year that four days in is already threatening to usurp 2019
They picked 52 because there are 52 weeks in a year. This lets him take out one target a week.
Pretty sure they took a hospital OFF the list to represent the sick hostage.
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He is definitely not leaving office if he leaves the election I guess.
Unfortunately in America the president has traditionally been a check on the military leadership, historically. This was destined to happen with mush brain in the whitehouse.
The military infrastructure is used to having to work and maneuver to fill their most desired blood lust. In this case Trump stepped right past them.
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