Fucking. Unbelievable. Ineptitude.

Iraqi leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed in the strike. Yet the media won't mention his name. His death also inflamed the Iraqi government to boot the US out. Surprised it took them this long. Life in Iraq is desperate. All the oil money is being sucked out of the country. Electricity, hospitals, roads, water, and sewage systems are still destroyed and unemployment is sky high. Shock and awe indeed.

Link to tweet

Did Trump deviously use Iraq to get Soleimani on the road where the drones could hit him?

almost sounds like a setup, a trap

a possibility. Whether he did it with forethought or after ... he did it. He committed a crime.

Trump should go to the Hague for this.

If Trump asked the Prime Minister to mediate, is it possible that THAT is why Soleimani was in Baghdad - to meet with Iraqis?

Another topic? Is any reporter going to ask Pompeo which countries are actually in the amazing coalition he says he created?

Fucking shocked.

If not, the two things were 2 separate actions that a clueless president did not see as contradictory. It is hard to see how anyone in leadership in Iraq can trust Trump or his NS team.

I'm afraid we have a devil sitting on each of tRump's shoulders whispering in his ear--no angel at all. All the angels have been fired, forced to resign, or quit.

They've all been sorry pieces of shit. Only the most putrid remain.

that no one did more to stop him. tRump already got rid of any of his appointees who might actually do that. So it’s all on Mitch and the GOP Senate — who are in it up to their eyeballs; ergo, scared for their own political and possibly free lives. Too many of them if not all of them need to be locked up and should be if we want to save this country.

With the Chao's and (of course) the drug loot.

If it is true, then I am actually shocked. And not much Trump does can shock me anymore.

This is the kind of thing that can damage a country's prestige and credibility for years.

to be trusted around the globe within his first year I suspect. It will take decades to gain it back — and we’ll probably never gain trust among middle eastern nations in the next 50 years. We are not a trustworthy nation ...

"Here, hold my beer."

OMG! If that is true, Trump should be frog-marched out of the White House. Forget impeachment procedures.

A true double cross. Echoes of Bolton's "drug deal" comments. Could you imagine a mob boss with the US military at his disposal?Iran needs to take this one on the chin and hope dumb ass doesn't get reelected.

We just want him to carry a message." Then boom. Trump murdered the man he was talking about.

Wow, I hope world leaders take note of Traitor Trump's trecherory.

Hey orange fat Traitor, use a drone on mobster "Shorty" Putin. He's just as evil.

Please put this important story out on its own article here at DU. Otherwise it may be ignore.
It deserves more prominence.

And therefore it's good what Trump did!?!

I'm so confused ... thought for SURE whatever IQ45's admin was saying must be true!

Leave the billion-dollar Embassy behind. That is the price we must pay for Trump's recklessness.

The neocons started a war in Iraq, and the winners are ...

Iran and Russia.

Gulf War 1

And our allies in mortal danger with his assination.

They better get out fast. They are now open targers to the militias that have no central coordination.

We may be witnessing the mistake we all knew would eventually happen. This could completely spin out of control.

Iraq's Army and security forces couldn't handle ISIS the last time ISIS moved into Iraq, are they ready now?
If not, then who will they call to help them again? Iran? The Sunni's hate Iran as much as they hate the US.

I think you're right, this will quickly spin out of control.

as well as Syria

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/us/politics/isis-iraq-syria.html

I imagine the MAGA morons will cheer that troops are leaving, but I feel like this is going to make things worse.

He will be so pissed. Bet he will just keep troops there anyway.

Remember he told us he knows more than the generals do ....

Sorry. And drones, he knows more than anyone about those too.

You forgot that.

we also have that wonder boy and mastermind of Middle East peace, Jared Kushner on the case.

What, me worry?

Not at all good.

Our presence in Iraq was built on a foundation of lies and war crimes.

One way or another we need to get out, and the sooner the better!

Even better still would be Trump's attempt to wag the dog backfiring on him BIGLY.

that Trump is bringing troops home and boost his approval? Most people won't realize they're being forcibly expelled for Trump committing an illegal act.

Described to a "Tea" in this thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212840864

if AMERICA had a foreign country with bases and troops INSIDE our country, would we be happy? This country, AMERICA, is nothing but a big bully. Even more so now with an idiot at the helm.

does America have any foreign bases on any of our soil?

because of NORAD.

I believe that there are Luftwaffe stationed at an airbase here because of flight training.

Evacuate with our tails between our legs?

We could be facing a very dangerous constitutional crisis over this. A lot depends on whether the Pentagon follows orders to commit war crimes.

Of course, the 2003 invasion and much of what happened afterwards were war crimes, so I'm not optimistic how this will play out.

What's he going to do? Even if he wants war with Iran, the staging of said conflict has just become much harder.
World war is passe. It has now become so disruptive and costly that the tendency is to shy away from anything bigger than regional entanglements these days unless you're really nutty like Putin or tRump.

So much for the US fight against ISIS. Now we lose our base of operations.

Link to tweet

So much winning!!!!

Trumps reckless and illegal assassination of Soleimani was his gift to Putin at American expense and we are watching spheres of influence shift in real time. Thank you GOP.

I can't imagine vacation homes in Siberia would be enough.

Turkey's next

"Interesting times".

I'm a pessimist and I did not expect this one.

All roads lead to Putin.

Iraq is going to dump us! I was shocked when the first
thing I read this morning was that Iraq dumped us.

This Beau is so accurate it is scary.

Now all I have to do his type "be" and he pops up on my browser.
This morning he was fantastic, my favorite comment was "Trump
is so bad it almost seems intentional."

Myself, I think it is planned. That's the G.O.P. and the Kremlin
in cohorts.

Beau's topic was "Domestic Issues in the Mideast".

Thank you dewsgirl. I am appalled and distracted, never enough
time anymore.

great, he is🔥🔥🔥with the Iran chaos. I also found out about him here, a couple months ago, he is now my favorite independent journalist.

He is also my favorite. He catches me by surprise because he
says what I am thinking but has more in depth detail than I
could provide.

Thank you, thank you very much

Well, by golly, thanks for sharing dewsgirl. And, again, this Beau hits subjects
right down my alley. I am very interested in the Selective Service stories. The
lottery draft turned out pretty bad and the government evolved it into a voluntary
draft ... fun stuff (lol).

About Elvis, I was drafted after he got out. My claim to fame is that he got out
at Fort Dix, N.J. My A.I.T. (advanced infantry) was held at Ft. Dix. I had volunteered
for Nam but on my last day at Dix (Ft. Ding-a-ling) my battalion was informed that
we were headed for Germany because our training was inadequate. The reason was
we were all O.C.S. candidates and there were not enough facilities available to
train us. We no longer had to serve the extra 10 months for training so we got sent
to Germany. Cheers.

There were two of his videos that really stood out, this one looking at the situation from their point of view.

The announcement that we were going to Germany was a surprise.
We were training for combat in Vietnam. We are just kids. I just turned
20 and was homesick. I regretted volunteering for an additional ten
months. I hated the Army.
I went to Berlin and counted every day on a calendar. It was not
a vacation, far from it. One time I worked 117 days in a row. Many of my
days were 24 hours. Of course we slept but we were on duty. Sure glad
they kept me out of war, and I appreciate all those that have defended
our country all these years. All these wars since WWII not necessary.

Oh, thanks for the videos, I wish I could read Beau's hat. His dad was a
congressman?

Thanks dewsgirl

to the disaster unfolding tonight.

Trump is very, very careless with US properties.
In the last few months he has lost 3 military bases that were abandoned and Russia picked up for free
Now the 750 million dollar embassy in Iraq.
I doubt that Trump pays any taxes so you and I will be paying for all of this. Plus the wall he lied about.
He is a clear and present danger to the US.

Trump is so incompetent he can't even do real estate anymore. LOL

Is Mitch going to defend his Master? Probably...
Is Trump going to invade Iraq again.... PROBABLY

IMPEACH THE MOTHER FICKER!

trump's actions on their soil were beyond disrespectful.

Whether by incompetence or design it's about damned time that we get the hell out.

The ME needs to be ruled by strongmen like Hussein, Assad, the Ayatollahs and the rest.

We've never had any business there.

I thought our business had something to do with oil among other things? That is, who has it, gets it, moves it, etc.

"Them" being anyone, doesn't matter if it's Iraq or Iran or any other brown foreigners.

Yes, let’s just get out. They could use the Green Zone as a government center, art museum, archeological museum, children’s playground and cultural center. This would at least and at last be a good use of our war dollars!

The embassy had better get it started.

operation orange freedom.

Trump just made Iran the winner of the Iran-Iraq war.

Since the Iranian leadership is in general a more rational actor than the Trump administration, maybe the Iranians will wait to see how the win Trump handed them plays out. We can hope, anyway.

Our current position in Iraq is now untenable without the infusion of hundreds of thousands of ground forces. If the US decides to fight to stay, we would be fighting the Shia and possibly the Sunni's. Or, the whole thing degenerates into a parallel war of occupation and Civil War . . . the Iran/KSA proxy war moves to Iraq from Syria.

Que Trump talking about what great allies the Kurds are, and the need for 50,000 troops to bolster Iraq Kurdistan. Problem there is we need Erdogan to allow supplies to pass through Turkey.

Maybe Pompeo's coalition he talks about is the US with Wahhabi Sunnis's . . . the guys that backed 9/11 and ISIS.

Iran-backed militias in Iraq might kick us as we exit, for two reasons:
1. They want to retaliate for for the assassination of Soleimani.
2. It will make us look like we're running with our tails between our legs.

There's going to be a conflict of goals coming very quickly. What Trump will do is anyone's guess.

Not until his assets in the White House and Congress have given him what he's paid for...

Fuck this administration!

Well they died for oil, of course.

The Iraq invasion was based on false pretenses under Bush and co though.

What next?