The message from Donald Trump AND the US military seems to be the militia are fair game in Iraq….
Iran backed Demo’s and Protests will be met with MORE force….
And MORE American reinforcement troops are on their way….
Six fighters of an Iraqi militia backed by Iran were killed in an airstrike north of Baghdad as tensions in Iraq continue to escalate.
The strike on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella force of Shiite militias that receive support from Iran, also critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source told Reuters.
The army source said two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned after the attack, which took place at 1:12 a.m Saturday local time.
The attack comes a day after a U.S. airstrike killed Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top general who directed Tehran’s network of international proxies in the Middle East and beyond….
The New York Times is now reporting that the evidence of “imminent attacks,” which Trump Administration officials have been using as the pretext for the attack on the Iranian General , was “razor thin.”
In supporting the attack yesterday , I specifically said “if”there was evidence of “imminent attacks.”
Accordingly,I will reserve judgment ,but will be interested in seeing how this plays out.
We will see…
The media IS running around in circles about this….
Hmmmmm?
Do we believe much of ANYTHING Donald Trump says?
New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi:
“I’ve had a chance to check in with sources, including two US officials who had intelligence briefings after the strike on Suleimani. Here is what I’ve learned. According to them, the evidence suggesting there was to be an imminent attack on American targets is ‘razor thin’.”
More: “One official described the planning for the strike as chaotic. The official says that following the attack on an Iraqi base which killed an American contractor circa Dec. 27, Trump was presented a menu of options for how to retaliate. Killing Suleimani was the ‘far out option.’”
Politicalwire…
His cultist followers in the Republican Party will believe it. And it leads them to another war that will be paid for by, wait for it…tax cuts for the rich!
Thankfully many of the Obama Trump voters and independents are not clamoring for war like the cultish Republicans are. I can’t see where this gains him any votes–the war mongering Republicans were already on board evem with Trump as an isolationist. But the independents and “Trump tryers” are not hawkish.
It will play out like it always does Jack, he’ll change the subject again and everyone will look there.
The evidence was mounting that Trump directed his folks to hold up the aid to the Ukraine. He had to do something dramatic to distract.
It’s not complicated. Why withhold judgment?