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Rice: Risks Likely Outweigh Benefits Of Killing Qassem Soleimani (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 OP
This butt-head in the WH is leading this country into treacherous times. Too damn bad those that RKP5637 Jan 2020 #1
Drop this one into the "well...yea!" file. paleotn Jan 2020 #2
Dotard May have just crapped in his apple butter. Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #3
Another Good Reason to List for Impeachment McKim Jan 2020 #4

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
1. This butt-head in the WH is leading this country into treacherous times. Too damn bad those that
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 04:13 PM
Jan 2020

want war are often not the ones that serve. They let others do it and often they comeback dead, maimed or with some serious metal issues.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
2. Drop this one into the "well...yea!" file.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 04:51 PM
Jan 2020

Not only was taking this guy out against international law, it backs Iran into a corner where they have to respond and we gain nothing of significance. Stupid. The wise course is to always give your opponent an out. Maybe not completely face saving, but an out, giving them the ability to pull back and reassess so cooler heads prevail....on both sides. Otherwise, you get irrational decisions compounded by irrational decisions. That's how smart people stay out of escalation feedback loops from foreign policy to road rage incidents. Then again, maybe shithead's handlers want this to escalate. And maybe they're stupid enough to think they can control the escalation to their own benefit. Ugh! This will not end well for anyone.

Thekaspervote

(32,778 posts)
3. Dotard May have just crapped in his apple butter.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 06:48 PM
Jan 2020

Iran may well have calculated that it's better off with a Democrat in the White House and not a Republican like President Donald Trump.
Logically -- and Iran's leaders are intensely pragmatic in that far-sighted way -- Tehran will likely calibrate its vowed "harsh revenge" response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a bid to cost Trump re-election.

More at the link


https://apple.news/A8ISopk_RSfGaC5atNkVSmA

Oh wouldn’t be just ironic that even our enemies prefer Obama to this blathering idiot. Talk about perfect revenge

McKim

(2,412 posts)
4. Another Good Reason to List for Impeachment
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 09:10 PM
Jan 2020

This recent attack gives Democrats and other responsible congresspersons another good reason to list for the Impeachment argument. Let’s call it “reckless endangerment of American lives!”

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