US Embassy in Iraq Attacked....Marine Force on Site

[Raazor]

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[higgyburners]

Originally Posted by Raazor

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[Raazor]

Originally Posted by higgyburners

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by higgyburners

Enough is Enough...Time to stop playing with them, or thinking we can change their mind. To many american soldiers...flat out way to many they are not worth it...

The politicians control the actions of the troops. As we all know and unfortunately, politicians can be worth a bucket of shit...and sometimes less.

I'll give ya a good example of the worth of politicians;

So, there we were in Balad, Iraq. Two Senators were already on a C-130 that was about to be loaded with Army soldiers going on their mid-tour R&R. The mid-tour R&R is a two week get away during a year long deployment. Before the soldiers could get on, we came under attack by rockets/mortars. The good Senators decided the best thing to do was order the aircraft to leave without the soldiers who had earned every bit of their R&R. I wish I had written down the names of the two Senators since through time, I've forgotten their names.

[BOTY]

Reporting on Fox airbase hit as well???? Balad air base in the green zone, fuggers playing with fire.

[Raazor]

[JRD77VET]

Trump warns Iran: US has targeted '52 Iranian sites' and will 'hit very fast and very hard' if needed

https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-t...-iranian-sites


President Trump issued a stern warning to Iran Saturday through a series of tweets to deter the country from retaliating after the U.S.-ordered airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani Thursday.

"Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters," Trump tweeted.

The president continued: "He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years."

Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike Thursday in Iraq that was ordered by President Trump.

"Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD," Trump said Saturday, explicitly laying out that the U.S. will act if Iran retaliates.



Following Soleimani's death, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said "harsh retaliation is waiting for the criminals whose filthy hands spilled his blood."

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani promised to "take revenge for this heinous crime."

The Iran-backed militias that spawned in Iraq, known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), have been quick to threaten prompt revenge on U.S. personnel and interests. Slaughtered alongside Soleimani at the airport was his close confidante Abu Mahdi al-Mohandas, the deputy head of the PMF.


Trump has made it clear that he expected the Iranians to stop threatening the United States.

"The USA wants no more threats!" Trump had tweeted.

Fox News' Danielle Wallace and Hollie McKay contributed to this report.

[z06psi]

Good.

[Raazor]

m0oK would be upset

[BOTY]

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by BOTY

Reporting on Fox airbase hit as well???? Balad air base in the green zone, fuggers playing with fire.

Balad is not in the Green Zone. The US Embassy aka The Green Zone is downtown Baghdad and near a shit river. Balad is about 60 miles north of Baghdad. Google maps is also your friend.

[69camfrk]

Johnny, I wish we could exterminate every last one of those bastards without prejudice. Never gonna happen though. That whole part of the world needs to be started over.

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by 69camfrk

Johnny, I wish we could exterminate every last one of those bastards without prejudice. Never gonna happen though. That whole part of the world needs to be started over.

****-N-A!

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by 69camfrk

Johnny, I wish we could exterminate every last one of those bastards without prejudice. Never gonna happen though. That whole part of the world needs to be started over.

I wish we could turn the entire ME into iridescent slag.