Barracuda2020 wrote:
Well listening to the rantings of the radicals from either side is not a good thing, they should be ignored. No the commander in chief doesn't have the sole power in an act of war.
He may have done the right thing, but not in the right way, he is not a King, this is not a monarch. Though he keeps on trying. Obama always went by protocol.
What he's done is unified Iran thereby strengthening them.
"Obama always went by protocol"??? Say what?
Back in 2011, Obama ordered the k*****g of an American citizen in Yemen, the subsequent drone strike k**led the target, his 16 year old son, and two other Americans. They were executed without constitutional protections or due process, and not a peep from the looney left.
General Qassem Soliemani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were mortal enemies. Ironic, isn't it? The leader of Iran’s Quds Force and the leader of ISIS were waging war against each other - Iran vs ISIS, the old Shia/Sunni schism- yet these two terrorist leaders were committed to k*****g Americans with any means possible, either direct attacks or the use of proxies and m*****as.
Soliemani is directly responsible for the deaths of over 600 American soldiers in Iraq, he was instrumental in developing IEDs that were reliable and very effective, and he was planning a major operation against American troops in Iraq. He was the point man in Iran's export of its militancy throughout the region.
That's the basic comparison of these two terrorist leaders. However, we must go beyond basics.
The CIA described Soliemani as the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today. Soliemani was Iran's number 2 general, but he was the Ayatollah's number one boy. Ali Khamenei loved this guy, looked upon him as a son, even g***med him to become Iran's president when he took off the uniform. Essentially, Soliemani was Iran's number two leader after Khamenei. Guess who was the driving force behind the infamous "nuclear deal"? Yep, dear old general Soliemani, he definitely wanted to get his hands on nuclear weapons.
Obama Did More Than Just Look the Other Way at Soleimani; the Iran Deal Gave Him AmnestyBottom line: Soliemani was a bigger fish than al-Baghdadi and Osama bin Laden combined. Neither ISIS nor Al Qaeda are national military forces, they are not state sponsored terrorist organizations. OTH, Soliemani, Iran's golden boy, commanded the Iranian Quds force, designated a terrorist group in 2007.
General Qassem Soleimani instructed Iraqi m*****a leaders, including his top ally in the country, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, to step up attacks on US targets in the country during a meeting in October at a villa across the Tigris River from the US embassy complex in Baghdad.
The attacks would deploy sophisticated new weapons provided by Iran, including Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired missiles that could bring down helicopters.
The strategy session took place as mass protests against Iran’s growing influence in Iraq were gaining momentum. Soleimani’s plan to attack US forces was designed to provoke a military response that would redirect that anger toward America.
Soleimani, 62, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, ordered a new m*****a group formed to carry out rocket attacks on Americans housed at Iraqi military bases. Muhandis’ Kataib Hezbollah force was to direct the operations, because the m*****a had the capability to use drones to scout targets for rocket attacks. Soleimani’s forces supplied its Iraqi m*****a allies with a drone Iran had developed that could elude radar systems last fall.
By late December, attacks by Iranian-backed groups on bases hosting US forces in Iraq were increasing to include firing more than 30 rockets at an Iraqi military base near Kirkuk that k**led a US civilian contractor. US airstrikes followed, which set off two days of violent protests at the US embassy in Baghdad.
On Thursday — the day before the attack that k**led Soleimani and Muhandis — US Defense Secretary Mark Esper warned that the United States might have to take preemptive action to protect American lives from expected attacks by Iran-backed m*****as.In the space of 3 months, US troops eliminated two mortal enemies of the United States, Israel, and the civilized world in general. This is the work of a Commander-in-Chief with a humongous pair of cojones.
FYI: Every soldier knows, or should know, that k*****g an enemy's military leaders, whether he be leading a platoon or an army, is quite effective in weakening the fighting effectiveness of that force. Snipers are often tasked with doing just that. When you take out a top commander of an enemy's military force, you weaken the enemy, not strengthen him. Ali Khomenei should be worried, he could be next.
The Iranian Islamists have been making a lot of "Death to America" noise for 40 years, and through proxy terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Iran has been behind the k*****gs of Americans, Israelis, Brits, French, Canadians, and others, Iran has sponsored, as in trained, financed and equipped, terrorist groups throughout the ME. Now the Iranian Jihadists really have something to cry about.
Soleimani got sniped. The snake got beheaded. There is no right or wrong way to do that. Not the work of a monarch or a king. President Trump is doing what we hired him to do.
I shudder to think about the situation we'd be in had that other thing with the fat ass and a love of vodka won the e******n.