Current Events > Iranian general killed by U.S. airstrike on Baghdad

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shockthemonkey posted...

Ok have fun beating those war drums just to feel smart, thats definitely healthy

Stating the obvious fact that Iran carried out these attacks before this happened, and they would have continued to do so even if Soleimani wasn't killed isn't "beating the war drums". Neither is calling out your hypocrisy in pretending the lives lost in future attacks are for some reason more valuable than the lives lost in past attacks, and then claiming other people are "downplaying terrorist attacks".

You have a long history of doubling down on dumb things you say instead of just admitting you were wrong. It's fine that you weren't totally informed on Iran, just move past it.

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world": it was George Washington's Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."


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Agnostic420 posted...

Imagine if we would have been attacked like 9/11 and Trump ignored the intel. Imagine the shit storm hed be under right now. If he didnt feel a threat was imminent then he wouldnt have OKd the strike. Trust our intelligence community. Lives were probably saved and Im all good with that. I hate Trump and want him out of office myself but sometimes you just have to do shit to protect people and I feel from what Ive seen and heard, it did just that.

the fuck do you know. and the fuck do the mouth breathers like you know? about the consequences that a missle strike from a deranged, IMPEACHED man made with only his narcissism and election in mind.

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Paragon21XX posted...

If Pence was a mass murdering psychopath like Soleimani was, I wouldn't miss him one bit. I also guarantee there are many Iranians thrilled that he is gone but too afraid of the next murdering psychopath that takes over the position to celebrate publicly.

no one is upset about this out of sympathy or sadness for soleimani

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anth0ny posted...

the fuck do you know. and the fuck do the mouth breathers like you know? about the consequences that a missle strike from a deranged, IMPEACHED man made with only his narcissism and election in mind.

It's amazing how mad these people get even when Trump does something great like take out an active terrorist. Literally deranged.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Ok keep arguing that Iran isnt going to retaliate and pretending that needless escalation is a good thing for reasons you cant explain

Broseph_Stalin posted...

Iran carried out these attacks before this happened, and they would have continued to do so even if Soleimani wasn't killed

It's funny how I ended up having to explain what retaliation means to a person who just minutes ago accused me of not knowing what it means, I love Gamefaqs.

"I don't give a shit about all the people Iran is planning to kill, but now that this general was taken out I feel like pretending I do!"

shockthemonkey posted...

Youre not even trying to make sense at this point

BS has been an insane troll for years now. I wouldn't bother.

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

*simple explanation of what retaliation means*

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lol

shockthemonkey posted...

Youre not even trying to make sense at this point

He's saying yesterday you weren't concerned with terrorism coming from Iran. But Iran was still sponsoring terrorism, and the intelligence community have been saying this for the last 40+ years. They used to jack our planes like a motherfucker, and it is probably why 9/11 happened, because we didn't think they were gonna weaponize the planes, we thought they probably just wanted one of their asshole buddies out of prison.

But today the Orange Man blew one of their leaders up, a piece of shit mind you (that commanded pedo soldiers), and now you're up in arms about it.


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I'm pretty sure he understands what I'm saying perfectly, he just didn't know what the Quds Force was but gave his opinion anyway and now feels a little embarrassed.

"It's not retaliation if you were planning the attack anyway" is a pretty simple statement, even he isn't that obtuse. Like I said, he has a history of this and would save a lot of energy if he just stopped digging all the time.

Republicans leading us into another fucking War first bullshit Iraq war now this one

yemmy posted...

it is probably why 9/11 happened

Oh we're back to pretending that the hijackers weren't Saudi Arabian again, huh

shockthemonkey posted...

Yourre still pretending that there wont be any retaliation or escalation

Iran carries out attacks no matter what. They have been doing this for decades, that is literally what the Quds Force is.

You don't know what retaliation means.

"You can't retaliate against Iran killing Americans because they will retaliate and it might escalate"

Is fucking stupid. The armed forces are literally there to respond to imminent threats like Soleimani.

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ThePrinceFish posted...

"You can't retaliate against Iran killing Americans because they will retaliate and it might escalate"

Is fucking stupid. The armed forces are literally there to respond to imminent threats like Soleimani.

He knows this, he's just be stubborn. He hates admitting when he's wrong.

ThePrinceFish posted...

"You can't retaliate against Iran killing Americans because they will retaliate and it might escalate"

Is fucking stupid. The armed forces are literally there to respond to imminent threats like Soleimani.

No the argument is that you don't just blow up some dude because you want to and by all accounts that's legitimately what Trump decided to do.
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Bio1590 posted...

No the argument is that you don't just blow up some dude because you want to and by all accounts that's legitimately what Trump decided to do.

By all accounts? You mean the New York Times' anonymous source? Because the official position of the United States is that he was actively planning further attacks on Americans. So hard to believe that the leader of the Quds forces would be doing so.

By all accounts my ass. Your evidence against it is as thin as refusing to believe anything that the United States government says just because it's the government that said it.

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metallica846 posted...

Yeah, not sure why people are saying that Iran might strike back. This was literally a response to them already striking us. Making Iran look like the poor widdle ME country so innocent in it's diaper, never harming a single human being like holy shit.

Again, he's aware of this. He's just having a meltdown because he doesn't know what retaliation means.

shockthemonkey posted...

You cant kill top leaders of foreign nations and not expect escalation. Do you want war with Iran?

You can't kill soldiers and attack embassies of the world's most powerful country and not expect them to react by killing your military leader in charge of planning attacks. By your own logic it's the Iranians that forced us to escalate.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Ah yes, Iran forced us to go to war. The narrative is complete. The same rhetoric we heard for Afghanistan and Iraq.

Iran notably attacks first, we retaliate, they become increasingly hostile and violently protest at an American embassy, we take out their leader with Intel he would plan more attacks.

Seems like Iran lit the fuse tbh.

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chrono625 posted...

Iran notably attacks first, we retaliate, they become increasingly hostile and violently protest at an American embassy, we take out their leader with Intel he would plan more attacks.

Seems like Iran lit the fuse tbh.

This is how people justified Iraq and Afghanistan and our fight against the concept of terror

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metallica846 posted...

Yeah, not sure why people are saying that Iran might strike back. This was literally a response to them already striking us. Making Iran look like the poor widdle ME country so innocent in it's diaper, never harming a single human being like holy shit.

Iran is the main player in fucking shit up in the ME and people act like they are saints because they faught ISIS. Like they aren't funding Hezbollah and would have funded ISIS if they had played ball with Iran instead of bucking. Oh poor innocent Iran would never hurt a fly and the big bad US hurt them for no reason!

Yeah the General was using a lot of confusion, and he was damn well good at it.

Also keep in mind some Iranian citizens really didn't like him for the massacres.

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hockeybub89 posted...

This is how people justified Iraq and Afghanistan and our fight against the concept of terror

Ok, so what exactly do we do?

We were attacked without provocation and we're worried about retaliation?

Do we sit on our hands and allow further attacks to happen and just say, "fuck it nothing we can do because we dont want retaliation."

This stance is absofuckinglutely absurd.

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chrono625 posted...

Ok, so what exactly do we do?

We were attacked without provocation and we're worried about retaliation?

Do we sit on our hands and allow further attacks to happen and just say, "fuck it nothing we can do because we dont want retaliation."

This stance is absofuckinglutely absurd.

This time

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Here's a celebrity being a coward and apologizing to Iran. This is why celebs need to be banned from going political unless they are running for office. You don't apologize to terrorists.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rose-mc-gowan-slams-trump-over-soleimani-killing-apologizes-to-iran-please-do-not-kill-us-170243104.html
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We sat and did nothing when SA killed a journalist.

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chrono625 posted...

Do we sit on our hands and allow further attacks to happen and just say, "fuck it nothing we can do because we dont want retaliation."

This stance is absofuckinglutely absurd.

You give them billions of dollars and make them pinky swear to never do it again.

ThePrinceFish posted...

By all accounts? You mean the New York Times' anonymous source? Because the official position of the United States is that he was actively planning further attacks on Americans. So hard to believe that the leader of the Quds forces would be doing so.

By all accounts my ass. Your evidence against it is as thin as refusing to believe anything that the United States government says just because it's the government that said it.

Yes excuse me for looking at all the reports that they told literally no one else they were going to do it except for like Lindsey fucking Graham of all people being told personally by Trump while they were golfing at fucking Mar-a-lago together.

Because if they had actually told anyone else they'd have been told to show the evidence, which (surprise!) still hasn't been produced either.
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Tmaster148 posted...

We sat and did nothing when SA killed a journalist.

And blew up the WTC

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Hexenherz posted...

https://i.imgur.com/kxKXiTu.jpg

That's fucking funny holy shit

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The amount of good little Germans in this topic is not at all surprising to me. This country's history is full of false flag shit justifying imperialist actions but yes let's please just buy whatever shit the government tells us. You people deserve to be sent over to fight in the wars that you defend.

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https://twitter.com/TomCokeIsABlunt/status/1213179094663344134

Good thread

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We've already gotten to the point where anyone criticizing this move is an Iranian sympathizer and wants terrorism to succeed. My goal for the 20s was not to live through another fucking Iraq war and engage in the toxic discourse that I was too young to do the first time around. History always repeats itself.

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https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1213225044949770240

Make of this what you will; I, for one, will not be taking official U.S. justification for military action at face value.
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1213225044949770240

Make of this what you will; I, for one, will not be taking official U.S. justification for military action at face value.

You mean after the blatant lies about WMDs in Iraq or the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam that you would question this?

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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1213225044949770240

Make of this what you will; I, for one, will not be taking official U.S. justification for military action at face value.

Looking at the picture in the tweet, it always blows my mind how our military is just kind of in other countries. Imagine if foreign military bases were in the US and APCs were just rolling around. We should not have a presence like that

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