Top Iranian general assassinated in Iraq

[French G.]

Is that as racist as White Settlement, Texas?

Well, we let black airplanes out of it to blow up other neighborhoods, so you may be on to something.

[Ben]

Well, it appears Iranian super special forces took out the Capitol and killed our president:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/01/11/iranians-blow-up-capitol-dome-storm-white-house-and-kill-big-fish-president-trump-in-bloody-new-propaganda-video/

[Angel Eyes]

(directed by Rian Johnson)

[bedlamite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDpdG6hSL7s

[230RN]

^
Heh.  That's a "civil discussion of political topics?"

Has he been watching too many of Greta Watsername's videos?

[WLJ]

More rockets
No word yet if any US casualties or if any airliners are missing

Eight Rockets Hit Iraqi Military Base Housing American Troops
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/01/12/eight-rockets-hit-iraqi-military-base-housing-american-troops-n2559382

Katyushas according to this

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Four people were wounded on Sunday in an attack on Balad air base in northern Iraq which houses U.S. personnel.

The Iraqi military said in a statement that eight Katyusha rockets had been fired at the base, about 80 km (50 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, and that the four wounded included two officers.

Military sources identified the wounded as Iraqi soldiers. They said seven mortar bombs had hit the base’s runway.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-base/four-wounded-in-attack-on-iraqi-military-base-that-houses-u-s-forces-idUSKBN1ZB0I0?il=0

[bedlamite]

Apparently the Iranians are pissed off at the UK too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7e3rE1snkQ

[French G.]

They might want to pull their horns in a little and their militias too. The airliner really underscores the amount of friends they don't have.

[Ben]

Maybe they'll get crazy enough to do something to the ruskies for some slight and we can sit back and watch. Though the dems would demand we go to war to protect the poor Iranians from Trump's buddy Putin.

[MechAg94]

https://www.jns.org/opinion/donald-trump-and-the-mythmakers/
Donald Trump and the mythmakers

For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel.

Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed them both. His opponents are apoplectic.

[K Frame]

It's looking more and more like there may be enough senate votes to pass the house resolution limiting Trump's unilateral ability to act against Iran.

[Ben]

It's looking more and more like there may be enough senate votes to pass the house resolution limiting Trump's unilateral ability to act against Iran.

How many do they need for that? Simple majority? I'm curious what Rs will be jumping to the D side on it.

[MechAg94]

How many do they need for that? Simple majority? I'm curious what Rs will be jumping to the D side on it.

For that matter, that is something Trump would have to sign correct? 

[K Frame]

How many do they need for that? Simple majority? I'm curious what Rs will be jumping to the D side on it.

Simple majority, I think. But, you're right, it wouldn't survive a Presidential veto. The house might overturn the veto, but getting the 2/3rds required in the Senate would be a long shot.

[WLJ]

"Hundreds of thousands"
Snopes: Mostly true

   Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda: U.K. Ambassador Should Be Chopped into Pieces; Hundreds of Thousands of U.S. Soldiers Were Killed in Our Missile Attack; Iranians Who Refused to Step on Flags of Israel, U.S. Should Be Court-Martialed, Executed pic.twitter.com/38bp0ED6Gw

    — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) January 15, 2020

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/01/15/iranian-cleric-says-uk-ambassador-should-be-chopped-into-pieces-for-attending-vigil-for-plane-shootdown-victims/

[WLJ]

AP is reporting 11 American service members injured. Note: It's the AP

They did not give an exact number, but a U.S. military official said 11 service members were hurt.

I find this part a bit amusing though

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed “American clowns” who he said pretend to support the Iranian nation but would stick their “poisoned dagger” into its back

11 U.S. service members injured in last week’s Iran missile attack, military official says
https://www.wave3.com/2020/01/17/us-service-members-injured-last-weeks-iran-missile-attack-military-official-reveals/

[WLJ]

Talk about walking on eggshells

Celebrity chef is arrested in Iran for posting a recipe for roast cutlets on the third anniversary of General Suleimani’s death - seen as a reference to the regime tyrant being blown up by US drone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11606145/Celebrity-chef-arrested-Iran-recipe-cutlets-anniversary-Suleimanis-death.html

[K Frame]

I wonder how they would have reacted had he posted a recipe for blackened steak?