Trump vows to hit 52 Iranian targets if Iran retaliates after drone strike

[Opl]

15 hours ago, Jim1000 said:

Perhaps we shouldn't take these things too  seriously , after all , in a decade or two the US will probably be selling covert Tomahawk missiles to Iran , to encourage the moderates in the regime and  to skim  off the profits  ( unbeknown to congress ) to build a Mexican wall or whatever is the really important priority at that moment in time  .

 

It couldn't possibly happen of course and I am probably dreaming !

" what we lost in the fire we found in the ashes" 

[lannarebirth]

On 1/4/2020 at 5:03 PM, unamazedloso said:

These pricks are terrorists and there is no denying it. Hit em hard and fast! 

 

Which pricks are you speaking of, us or them?

 

[Chomper Higgot]

19 hours ago, samran said:

Targeting sites of cultural heritage - I thought that was an ISIS trademark...

It’s an inflammatory threat made by Trump which if he follows through on would be a war crime.

 

That others commit such war crimes is neither an excuse or a defence.

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Trump has now cornered himself, he’s threatened a response to any Iranian retaliation, his threats include acts that if committed would be war crimes.

 

Iran have retaliated so now Trump

must respond.

 

He might also feel this is a time for him to step up and explain to the nation why y exactly he has chosen to take the course of action that has led the US to the brink of war.

 

Then again he may choose not to face the nation.

[RideJocky]

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Trump has now cornered himself, he’s threatened a response to any Iranian retaliation, his threats include acts that if committed would be war crimes.

 

Iran have retaliated so now Trump

must respond.

 

He might also feel this is a time for him to step up and explain to the nation why y exactly he has chosen to take the course of action that has led the US to the brink of war.

 

Then again he may choose not to face the nation.

Maybe if he sends them $150B and provides them a path to nuclear arms he’d be a hero to the left. 
 

He exterminated a terrorist, good riddance. 
 

[RideJocky]

20 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s an inflammatory threat made by Trump which if he follows through on would be a war crime.

 

That others commit such war crimes is neither an excuse or a defence.

 

 

 

He already walked it back.

[bristolboy]

Just now, RideJocky said:

He already walked it back.

What kind of moron would say it in the first place? And he hasn't walked back his threat to refuse to leave Iraq until the Iraqis pay the US back for air bases and such. I'm sure US troops on the ground there are very grateful to Trump for further enraging the locals.

[GalaxyMan]

Some interesting information...

 

Iran has five workers of prime-age (25-64 years) for every citizen over 65. By 2050 the ratio will crash to just 1.8 working-age Iranians per retiree, assuming constant fertility. Iran’s economy will crash. Its pension systems already are bankrupt.

 

 

The September attack on Aramco facilities in Saudi Arabia exposed the weakness of US air defenses. The Patriot anti-missile system can’t shoot anything flying lower than 60 meters, and Iran has low-flying cruise missiles.

 

 

Two dozen missiles or bombing sorties could wipe out Iran’s economy in a matter of hours. Fewer than a dozen power plants generate 60% of Iran’s electricity, and eight refineries produce 80% of its distillates. A single missile strike could disable each of these facilities, and bunker-buster bombs of the kind that Israel used last month in Lebanon would entirely destroy them. Without much effort, the US could destroy the Port of Kharg from which Iran exports 90% of its hydrocarbons.

 

 

IMHO: Based upon Iran’s response (rather pathetic, if you ask me), firing a dozen or so missiles at a base in Iraq that houses US troops, they really don’t have a capable military response available to them. It remains to be seen if Iran is really willing to commit suicide and thereby being reduced to a stone-age society for quite a while by provoking Trump with more than the mosquito-like pin-p.r.i.c.k. their missiles represented. I’d bet anything that John Bolton had a wet dream when Suleimani was taken out. ????

Edited January 8, 2020 by GalaxyMan

[Nyezhov]

4 minutes ago, GalaxyMan said:

It remains to be seen if Iran is really willing to commit suicide and thereby being reduced to a stone-age society for quite a while by provoking Trump with more than the mosquito-like pin-p.r.i.c.k. their missiles represented.

Trumps done shooting for now. His response to this one will be to cut off access to the US banking system for any country that does business with Iran. That will stir up some angst. Keep them on their toes Don.

[JimmyTheMook]

Iran (Iraq) just opened a can of whoop ass they won't be able to close.

[bristolboy]

1 hour ago, RideJocky said:

Maybe if he sends them $150B and provides them a path to nuclear arms he’d be a hero to the left. 
 

He exterminated a terrorist, good riddance. 
 

Just like it was a good thing when the US got rid of Saddam? Some people are just impervious to learning from history.

[RickBradford]

And the Western media keeps up its devotional genuflection for this killer.

 

The New Yorker falls into line with the Iranian press by calling his killing "an act of war", and then continue their eulogy:

 

"Suleimani, a flamboyant former construction worker and bodybuilder with snowy white hair, a dapper beard, and arching salt-and-pepper eyebrows, gained notice during the eight-year war with Iraq .. He was the most feared and most admired military leader in the region."

 

They talk about him as though he had just been plucked from obscurity to play 007.

[Scott]

Troll post removed.

 

[bristolboy]

3 hours ago, RickBradford said:

And the Western media keeps up its devotional genuflection for this killer.

 

The New Yorker falls into line with the Iranian press by calling his killing "an act of war", and then continue their eulogy:

 

"Suleimani, a flamboyant former construction worker and bodybuilder with snowy white hair, a dapper beard, and arching salt-and-pepper eyebrows, gained notice during the eight-year war with Iraq .. He was the most feared and most admired military leader in the region."

 

They talk about him as though he had just been plucked from obscurity to play 007.

You mean they forgot to mention the horns on his head and his diet of live babies?

[Phet Chop Boi]

On 1/5/2020 at 2:24 AM, EricTh said:

Those Arabic and other Muslim countries are going to side their Muslim brothers ie. Iranians against the Americans and allies.

 

Trump is a warmonger. First, it is a trade war against China and now this.

 

Do I see a World War 3 coming?

It would be good for World peace , if the Iranians , Saudis , Iraqis , Syrias , Yeminis , all stopped fighting with each other