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2020-01-03 Home Front: Politix
Democrats call US killing of Iranian general ‘reckless'
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox" with the targeted killing of Iran’s top general in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.

The former vice president joined other Democratic White House hopefuls in criticizing Trump’s order, saying it could leave the U.S. "on the brink of a major conflict across the Middle East."

The Pentagon said the U.S. military killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in Baghdad Friday at the direction of Trump. The attack is expected to draw severe Iranian retaliation against Israel and American interests. The Defense Department said Soleimani "was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region."

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders released a statement saying, "Trump’s dangerous escalation brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East that could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars."

Democrats acknowledged the threat posed by Soleimani, with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling him "a murderer, responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds of Americans."

However, she added, Trump’s "reckless move escalates the situation with Iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new Middle East conflict."

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang tweeted: "War with Iran is the last thing we need and is not the will of the American people. We should be acting to deescalate tensions and protect our people in the region."
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-03 02:26|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 All Losers.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-03 02:47||   2020-01-03 02:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox"

Instead of shooting shotgun through the door?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 03:20||   2020-01-03 03:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't now how to post an image, so here's the URL https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fintimeswrong-401x600.jpg
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 03:26||   2020-01-03 03:26|| Front Page Top

#4 For G:
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-03 03:54||   2020-01-03 03:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Domo Arigato
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 03:56||   2020-01-03 03:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Image
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(do all the above in one line. Then Preview. Then Submit)

Video
1) Replace the img with embed to post a video and add /embed/ right after the .com
2) Replace " /> with " width="400" height="400" /> to fine tune the video size.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-03 04:57||   2020-01-03 04:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 05:01||   2020-01-03 05:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Oops, lets try:
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(all on one line. Later today I will post a jpg so the web page won't eat these attempted instructions of using the img and embed tags.)
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-03 05:04||   2020-01-03 05:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Washington Post Calls Brutal Iran Terrorist Thug Killed in U.S. Airstrike a 'Revered Military Leader'

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 05:25||   2020-01-03 05:25|| Front Page Top

#10 😎
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 05:26||   2020-01-03 05:26|| Front Page Top

#11 A+ g(r)omgoru!!!

You may want to throw in the width="400" before the /> to keep your img tag neat. Make sure each side of the width="400" has a space.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-03 05:34||   2020-01-03 05:34|| Front Page Top

#12 < img src="right click the image and copy image address, post that here" style="width:85%" />

works best. drop the space between the less than symbol and img
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-03 06:06||   2020-01-03 06:06|| Front Page Top

#13 The media take

Be sure to read the Caller's response
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-03 07:05||   2020-01-03 07:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Some disagree with the left.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-03 07:30||   2020-01-03 07:30|| Front Page Top

#15 "To crush your enemies, to drive them before you and to hear the Democratic tweets of lamentation." Yeah, baby!

I'm not up on Iranian politics but does getting splattered mean the guy is no longer in the running to be prez?
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-03 07:43||   2020-01-03 07:43|| Front Page Top

#16 So it's better to give them the bomb and a pile of money be cause you're too much of a chickenshit to attack a weak country that is hobbled by internal strife?
Posted by gorb 2020-01-03 07:50||   2020-01-03 07:50|| Front Page Top

#17 The demoncrats don't like being made to look like chickenshits when allowed other embassies to be over run and they didn't do shit.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-03 09:02||   2020-01-03 09:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Any enemy of western values is a friend of the left by default.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-03 09:33||   2020-01-03 09:33|| Front Page Top

#19 Pigs and democrats on the embassy walls!?!
Posted by Glolulet Munster1861 2020-01-03 09:50||   2020-01-03 09:50|| Front Page Top

#20 It is nice of the Financial Times to suggest the next target.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-03 10:45||   2020-01-03 10:45|| Front Page Top

#21 Not the next target, the best target.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-03 10:47||   2020-01-03 10:47|| Front Page Top

#22 "Philosophical warrior-poet."

Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump has "tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox"

So, no longer a tinderbox.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-03 10:58||   2020-01-03 10:58|| Front Page Top

#23 Gosh, I though sending pallets stacked with a couple hundred billion dollars in cash to Iran was reckless.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-03 11:24||   2020-01-03 11:24|| Front Page Top

#24 So can Biden's mouth now legitimately be called Khamenei's c**kholst*r ?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-01-03 12:56||   2020-01-03 12:56|| Front Page Top

#25 So, no longer a tinderbox.

Red Adair used to put out oil well fires by blowing them up, so there is some precedent.
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-03 13:10||   2020-01-03 13:10|| Front Page Top

#26 Landing folks on the Moon was sort of 'reckless', too.

Developing the smallpox vaccine.

Experimenting with split atoms....I could go on.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-03 13:33||   2020-01-03 13:33|| Front Page Top

#27 Seen on twitter:"Today is the day John Kerry's checks start bouncing."

I'm surely not wise enough to know whether whacking this guy will be good or bad in the long run, but I do think that The Don reflexively acts like an American president, not like a social justice warrior or an enlightened citizen of the world. And I'm fine with that.

I wonder if the Dems will add this to the articles of impeachment.
Posted by Matt 2020-01-03 13:36||   2020-01-03 13:36|| Front Page Top

#28 What, for acting like an American? Probably. It would be normal for them.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-01-03 19:44||   2020-01-03 19:44|| Front Page Top

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