Current Events > Iraq PM: Trump asked Iraq to mediate with Soleimani only to drone strike him.

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https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213823941321592834

This is stunning - #Iraq prime minister tells parliament US troops should leave. Says @realDonaldTrump
called him to ask him to mediate with #Iran and then ordered drone strike on Soleimani. Says Soleimani carrying response to Saudi initiative to defuse tension when he was hit.

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Actual fucking war crimes.

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Fucked up if true. Please get rid of this guy before he destroys the whole world.

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If true, that's perfidy, a textbook warcrime. Luring someone out to the negotiating table to murder them is a medieval-tier move.

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Wish the US would get sanctioned already

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SuperShake666 posted...

Actual fucking war crimes.

Yep.

Even if we all get our of this alive, no one's trusting us again after all this bullshit.

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But Republicans will just shrug their shoulders. "What did Trump do wrong?"

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It seems increasingly likely that team Trump got Abdulmahdi to invite Soleimani to Baghdad for 'mediation.' S. came openly on a commercial flight and checked through airport with diplomatic passport. Trump then offed him and declared he had been coming to kill Americans.

https://twitter.com/jricole/status/1213846124173365248

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way too much information coming in about this

all I can say is that trump dun goofed big time

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Basically the easiest way to end an alliance, make them an unwitting accomplice to an assassination.

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What the actual fuck is happening, this is insane

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And yet, we're powerless as citizens to remove Trump and the chances of getting tons of our citizenry to revolt or stage any sort of a working class wide strike is zero.

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gunplagirl posted...

And yet, we're powerless as citizens to remove Trump and the chances of getting tons of our citizenry to revolt or stage any sort of a working class wide strike is zero.

Even if we did all of that, the damage is done. We can't erase any of this.

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Hey @ThePrinceFish you still taking the White House at its word lmfao
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This oaf has set our country back 50 years
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should probably avoid Trump family weddings too tbh

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Remember though

Hillary is the War Criminal who would draw us into war with Iran.

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Well they are never going to come back to the table again.

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GallisOTK posted...

This oaf has set our country back 50 years

There is no coming back from this.

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This fucking joke of a party has stained our reputation on the global map for decades.

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gunplagirl posted...

And yet, we're powerless as citizens to remove Trump and the chances of getting tons of our citizenry to revolt or stage any sort of a working class wide strike is zero.

Please, half the country is ecstatic about it

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Is this true? Some random twitter account isn't a very trustworthy source.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Is this true? Some random twitter account isn't a very trustworthy source.

She's hardly "some random twitter account"
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Is this true? Some random twitter account isn't a very trustworthy source.

It is when it belongs to an NPR correspondent.
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Bio1590 posted...

Hey @ThePrinceFish you still taking the White House at its word lmfao

lmao if bombing Suleimani ALSO gets us out of Iraq I'll be even happier about killing that shitbag

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Blackstar110 posted...

This fucking joke of a party has stained our reputation on the global map for decades.

Restrictions on Trump for declaring war have been dropped in favor of impeachment, as well. It's fully on Trump for actually doing something with it but those restrictions shouldn't have been dropped. The entire office needs to be cleaned out and started fresh.

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If true, can we just give them Donald Trump?

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Most trump supporters arent intelligent enough to grasp the nuances of geopolitics and war crimes. The ones that are have racist tendencies and think trump is based

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ThePrinceFish posted...

lmao if bombing Suleimani ALSO gets us out of Iraq I'll be even happier about killing that shitbag

The state of the American right:

"lmao fuck yeah war crimes!!!"

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So can we have Trump locked up as a result, as in immediately?

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ThePrinceFish posted...

lmao if bombing Suleimani ALSO gets us out of Iraq I'll be even happier about killing that shitbag

That's a weird deflection bro
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It's not just trump that should be arrested, but also the people in congress that like to lick his ass.

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maybe he doestn know what mediate means.

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PostCrisisJ2 posted...

way too much information coming in about this

all I can say is that trump dun goofed big time

We'll be the ones to pay, man whoever gets in the office next is fucked lol.

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ThePrinceFish posted...

Where exactly is the contradiction to the United States? That they baited him out before they killed him? Oh no, I guess that washes off the American blood off his hands. He remained a dangerous terrorist leader of the Quds forces and was justifiably blown off the face of this Earth. I hope he believed that the United States was preparing to bend over for him Obama style before that rocket fell from the sky.

hey I hope you feel the same way about all of our presidents if someone assassinated them out of no where bro

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metralo posted...

hey I hope you feel the same way about all of our presidents if someone assassinated them out of no where bro

You mean like all the ones that were assassinated?

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I hope when he's out of office finally that we turn his ass over to the hague for war crimes.

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Cant believe Obama is trying to start a war with Iran to get re-elected.

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lol he's Warned
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Good

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I can believe this.

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metralo posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Where exactly is the contradiction to the United States? That they baited him out before they killed him? Oh no, I guess that washes off the American blood off his hands. He remained a dangerous terrorist leader of the Quds forces and was justifiably blown off the face of this Earth. I hope he believed that the United States was preparing to bend over for him Obama style before that rocket fell from the sky.

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He didn't scurry off, he got swatted like a fly

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Consider this reporting that came out a day or two, also:

One briefing slide shown to Trump listed several follow-up steps the U.S. could take, among them targeting Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps elite Quds Force, according to a senior U.S. official familiar with the discussions who was not authorized to talk about the meeting on the record.

Unexpectedly, Trump chose that option, the official said, adding that the presidents decision was spurred on in part by Iran hawks among his advisers.
That meant the Pentagon suddenly faced the daunting task of carrying out Trumps orders.

Soleimani wasnt mentioned publicly as a possible target. But behind the scenes, Trumps decision set off a furious effort by the Pentagon, CIA and others to locate the Iranian general and put in place military assets to kill him.

U.S. intelligence agencies, which had been tracking Soleimani for years, knew he was on an extended Middle East trip that had taken him to Lebanon and Syria. He would be flying from Damascus to Baghdad within days, they learned.

He seemed unusually unconcerned about covering his tracks, officials noted. He was traveling from Syria to Baghdad on a flight that was not secret, Iranian officials said Friday, ostensibly for meetings with Iraqi officials.

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Umbreon posted...

But Republicans will just shrug their shoulders. "What did Trump do wrong?"

Hopefully he is sent to prison or the hague after his term

Remember the time people were condemning Dubya & Cheney for war crimes? Yeah, this looks like literal war crimes.

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Bishop9800 posted...

Mind if I steal this?
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I'm not going to read everything around this. Can someone tell me if this information is coming directly from leaders in the middle East? Do they have reason to fabricate any of this?

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Why do people always vote in the shittiest politicians

You guys had a good candidate, bernie, but opted for Trump instead. Its as bad as australia always voting in the liberal party
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