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2020-01-10 Home Front: WoT

Susan Rice Lies Again -- Obama and Soleimani

[American Thinker] Susan Rice was a little less ubiquitous this time around than during her infamous five-talk-show world tour repeating the lie that the Benghazi terrorist attack was the fault of an inflammatory video and not due to the criminal negligence of President Barack Hussein Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. But there she was again on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Comedy Hour" defending her former boss, this time against charges that President Trump cleaned up more of Obama’s Iran mess by terminating the life and reign of terror of Iranian Gen. and Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani:

The Obama administration wasn't presented with the opportunity to take out Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad early Friday, former national security adviser Susan Rice said Friday night.
"Had we been presented such an opportunity, what we would have done is weigh very carefully and very deliberately the risks versus the potential rewards," Rice told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow....

Rice questioned whether Trump made the right decision.

"So, if in fact the administration can be believed that there was indeed strong intelligence of an imminent threat against the United States that's being carried out by Soleimani and related militia then the question becomes [was] there more than one way to address that threat?" she told Maddow. "Was the only way to deal with it to kill Soleimani? Certainly, given his history and track record, he deserves his just rewards but the question is does that serve our interests? Does that make us more secure?"

Uh, yes it does, Susan. The Trump administration is certainly more believable than you and the Obama administration was in explaining why four Americans were abandoned to die in Benghazi, including Amb. Christopher Stevens. Because Trump killed Soleimani, the American embassy did not turn into another Obama-Clinton-Rice Benghazi tragedy.

The "reward" is that Soleimani can no longer ply his murderous trade and the families of the 600-plus Americans killed by his explosively-formed-penetrators can take some solace in his occupation of a special place in Hell. Those maimed by this butcher can take heart in that not enough pieces of him were found to have an open casket. And what were the risks? That those shouting "Death to America!" might try to kill us?

According to a 2018 report in the Daily Beast, Obama launched 186 drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan during just his first two years in office. If he wanted to, he could have found and killed him. He killed Osama bin Laden, and took credit for it, even though the legwork was done by the preceding Bush administration. Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was president, not because he was president

Obama didn't want to kill Soleimani. He wanted the nuclear deal sellout with Iran, and killing Iran's Quds Force commanding general would not have advance the deal. Better for Obama to release $150 billion to the Iranians and fly in some $1.8 billion in cash and drop it on an Iranian tarmac in the middle of the night. Quid pro quo, anyone? Obama not only didn’t pursue Soleimani as a matter of policy, he provided Soleimani and Iran with a terrorist-and-weapons slush fund to play with.

The Obama administration actually killed a chance to get Soleimani in a move unbelievably callous and self-serving. As TownHall reports:

According to a January 2018 report from the Israel newspaper Haaretz, leaders in Israel were prepared to kill Soleimani back in 2015 but the Obama administration put an end to the plan. Just as Israel was "on the verge" of killing Soleimani, the Obama administration alerted Iranian officials about Israel's plans and their close tracking of the military leader....

It really isn't that surprising to learn that the Obama administration intervened to keep Soleimani alive. President Barack Obama never stood by Israel even though the country is considered the United States' greatest ally in the Middle East.

Tyler O'Neil at PJ Media noted an important tidbit about the revelation: "Yet the news that the Obama's administration prevented Israel from assassinating the Quds Force leader seems particularly significant, since the Obama administration also kept a list of approximately 500 American soldiers who were murdered by Iranian IEDs. Since the Quds Force spearheads Iran's operations outside the Islamic Republic, Soleimani would arguably be responsible for all of those deaths."

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-10 07:09|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1 Surreal. The people who helped bankroll Suleimani criticizing DJT for "making us less secure" - by taking out Suleimani.

Is there any more evidence needed that Zero and his crew were determined to aid and abet Iran?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 11:10|| 2020-01-10 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 These people need to just be honest: they hated Netanyahu and Israel, and they downplayed the threat posed to our interests by an imperialist Iran.

Their sympathies were obviously with Israel's antagonists, and their strategic calculus was that Islamic Iran was a useful counterweight to Israel in the region. What foolishness.

Their stupidity and incompetence are mind-boggling. They should STFU and exit the public square now.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 11:16|| 2020-01-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 They won't, Lex.

They won't.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-10 11:40|| 2020-01-10 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 They should STFU and exit the public square now.

They'll never quit while there is that much money and power at stake.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-10 12:39|| 2020-01-10 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks to whomever posted my all-time favorite Susan Rice graphic.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-10 13:46|| 2020-01-10 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 "Does that make us more secure?"

Doesn't getting rid of a mass murderer automatically make people more secure?

Posted by Tom 2020-01-10 13:49|| 2020-01-10 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 They'll never quit while there is that much money and power at stake.

Right - foolishness doesn't completely explain this. There's likely significant graft involved.

We really need to see the offshore money flows related to the billions these fools sent to Iran.

I want to know which Swiss bank accounts are owned by the Iranian Foreign Minister and his crew, -- as well as any that Kerry, Rice and their family members own - and how much has flowed into them during the last 5-6 years.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 14:07|| 2020-01-10 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Lying BITCH!
(Watched 13 hours)

Never had to channel c2 thru REMF!

Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-10 17:18|| 2020-01-10 17:18|| Front Page Top