War Iran-United States Military Crisis of 2020 - US Baghdad embassy under siege, rocket fire in US Baghdad green zone, Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 crash, and more!

January 10th:
Exclusive: Informants in Iraq, Syria helped U.S. kill Iran's Soleimani - sources (archive)(post)
Iraqi Shia cleric whose militia killed American troops says crisis is over following Iran strike and Trump speech (archive)(post)
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal (archive)(post)
Mike Pence says Congress might 'compromise sources and methods' if fully briefed on the Soleimani strike (archive)(post)
Unidentified planes hit Iraqi militiamen in Syria, killing 8 (archive)(post)
Iraq: The Master Of Mayhem Meets A Missile (archive)(post)
Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter (archive)(post)
Iran uses BULLDOZERS to clear debris from plane crash site while accusing US of ‘big lie’ that they shot it down (archive)(post)
Swiss Back Channel Helped Defuse U.S.-Iran Crisis (post)

January 11th:
UKRAINIAN AIRCRAFT WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN IRAN DUE TO 'HUMAN ERROR' (archive)(post)
Iran minister says 'human error' caused by 'US adventurism' led to deadly crash of Ukrainian jetliner (archive)(post)
Ukrainian aircraft was brought down in Iran due to 'human error' (archive)(post)
Trump, at Ohio rally, says Democrats would have leaked Soleimani attack plans (archive)(post)
The Atlantic's David Frum blames Trump for downing of plane in Iran, deaths of 176 (archive)(post)
Associated Press changes ‘shockingly bad’ headline about Soleimani, Ukrainian plane crash after backlash (archive)(post)
GOP Rep. Doug Collins apologizes for saying Democrats are 'in love with terrorists' (archive)(post)
Iran demands West 'show findings' as new video reveals aircraft was struck before fiery crash (archive)(post)
Warren town hall interrupted by angry protester accusing her of ‘siding with terrorists’ (archive)(post)
Trump administration announces new sanctions on Iran (archive)(post)
Prepare For the Worst From Iran Cyber Attacks, As DHS Issues Warning: Experts (archive)(post)
Trump tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham 'four embassies' were targeted in imminent threat from Iran (archive)(post)
Trump tweets support for Iranian protesters as they demand Khamenei quit (archive)(post)
Trump warns Iran against ‘another massacre’ as protests flare over downed jet (archive)(post)

January 12th:
Trump tweet in Farsi 'the most liked Persian tweet' in history of Twitter (archive)(post)
Iraq warned to keep US troops or risk financial blow-WSJ (archive)(post)
Iran arrests UK ambassador in what Britain calls ‘flagrant violation of international law’ (archive)(post)

January 13th:
Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions (archive)(post)

edit: This is a WIP. All links are posted in the order they appear in the thread, not in chronological order of their publication.


---Original OP before the merge---
Iraqi supporters of Iran-backed militia attack US Embassy
https://apnews.com/75228a8a607a44863b57021ac33264dc (http://archive.vn/ljm9Y)

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main building inside embassy. It was not clear what caused the fire at the reception area near the parking lot of the compound. A man on a loudspeaker urged the mob not to enter the compound, saying: “The message was delivered.”

The embassy attack followed deadly U.S. airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said it was in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that it had blamed on the militia.

Dozens of protesters marched inside the compound after smashing the gate used by cars to enter the embassy. The protesters, many in militia uniform, stopped in a corridor after about 5 meters (16 feet), and were only about 200 meters away from the main building. Half a dozen U.S. soldiers were seen on the roof of the main building, their guns were pointed at the protesters.

Smoke from the tear gas rose in the area, and at least three of the protesters appeared to have difficulties breathing. It wasn’t immediately known whether the embassy staff had remained inside the main building.

The protesters hanged a poster on the wall: “America is an aggressor.”

Shouting “Down, Down USA,” the crowd tried to push inside the embassy grounds, hurling water and stones over its walls. They raised yellow militia flags and taunted the embassy’s security staff who remained behind the glass windows in the gates’ reception area. They sprayed graffiti on the wall and windows in red in support of the Kataeb Hezbollah militia: “Closed in the name of the resistance.”

Hundreds of angry protesters, some in militia uniforms, set up tents outside the embassy. As tempers rose, the mob set fire to three trailers used by security guards along the embassy wall.

No one was immediately reported hurt in the rampage and security staff had withdrawn to inside the embassy earlier, soon after protesters gathered outside.

The U.S. attack — the largest targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia in recent years — and the subsequent calls by the militia for retaliation, represent a new escalation in the proxy war between the U.S. and Iran playing out in the Middle East.

Tuesday’s attempted embassy storming took place after mourners and supporters held funerals for the militia fighters killed in a Baghdad neighborhood, after which they marched on to the heavily fortified Green Zone and kept walking till they reached the sprawling U.S. Embassy there.

AP journalists then saw the crowd as they tried to scale the walls of the embassy, in what appeared to be an attempt to storm it, shouting “Down, down USA!” and “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday’s strikes send the message that the U.S. will not tolerate actions by Iran that jeopardize American lives.

The Iranian-backed Iraqi militia had vowed Monday to retaliate for the U.S. military strikes. The attack and vows for revenge raised concerns of new attacks that could threaten American interests in the region.

The U.S. attack also outraged both the militias and the Iraqi government, which said it will reconsider its relationship with the U.S.-led coalition — the first time it has said it will do so since an agreement was struck to keep some U.S. troops in the country. It called the attack a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty.

In a partly televised meeting Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi told Cabinet members that he had tried to stop the U.S. operation “but there was insistence” from American officials.

The U.S. military said “precision defensive strikes” were conducted against five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq and Syria. The group, which is a separate force from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, operates under the umbrella of the state-sanctioned militias known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Many of them are supported by Iran.

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[PantsFreeZone]

Iran is quite capable of targetting America's allies, leadership and assets in turn. It has far more affiliated boots on the ground across the middle east. Just a few hours ago the Us resorted to bombing the Yazidis, a group almost genocided by isis, just because it is part of the PMU. This is set up for strategic failure because to 'win' you need to bring the regional population to ones side. As things stand the vast majority of iraqi's, iranians and syrians are chanting death to the evil empire.. the us alienated its closest grassroots allies, the kurds recently, and the only reason all sunnis aren't going full isis is because they're being caged up by unsustainable absolute dictatorships like the al saud regime which is bleeding so heaily in yemen the media isnt even covering that conflict anymore.. This is not a 'war' the Us can win. You're losing the 'war' on terror. It has weakened you considerably at home and abroad.

You're setting yourselves and the west up for long term failure, like you did with the Taliban, who have emerged victorious because they have maintained actual support from the population. All you're gaining from this conflict is further expenses for your military contractors, which are weakening American tax payers and policies abroad.

Which is why this is a great thing and I support it 100%. Things will hopefully escalate measurably prior to trumps re-election. America is being stretched thin, prime position to be in for China's and Russia's goals to be fulfilled in Asia and Europe. The middle east is bleeding you, you're stuck there perpetually multiplying your enemies, and its oh so hilarious. Contrast that with Russia's stance, it managed to insert itself into syria and completely change the war for its benefit with just a third of its annual TRAINING budget. You blew more money every month since 2015 just over syria alone, all you got from it is a kurdish 'ally' that now hates you because your other 'ally' turkey (which you've sanctioned because its buying strategic weapons systems from Russia lol) is bumfucking them as we speak...even as it invades libya and props up an anti us regime. Your musical chairs leadership is aimless, self serving and without a long term strategy. This latest self defeating act was directed from tel aviv lol. More fuel for the grand conspiracy, trump informed his israeli masters of the attack before he did his own government... And the whole world knows it. Suddenly polarization at home gets another boost and uncertainty regarding the situation abroad becomes the norm.

People like this are correct but not for the reason their sub 80 IQ, tiny, poorly functioning minds believe.

The West will die from internal combustion, not because of any of your conjured boogeymen. America and the West will die due to technocratic censorship, the dumbing down of the public at large (you are exhibit A), the eventual authoritarianism of progressives and the cowardness of the neoconservative right. The death of the West will happen when things like the Constitution and individual liberties are widdled down to the bare bone and either the people will rise up and kill everyone in charge or we swing into the Marxist Utopia of starvation, gulags and government sanctioned mass murder.

Forever war, the Jewish hegemony, propagandist media, secularism, destruction of the family unit and Leftist indoctrination starting in early public school are all part of the same Overton window destroying process that has been pouring over the West since the 1960s.

Killing a few sand people with missiles and making Iran our bitch has nothing to do with it.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

The death of the West will happen when things like the Constitution and individual liberties are widdled down to the bare bone and either the people will rise up and kill everyone in charge or we swing into the Marxist Utopia of starvation, gulags and government sanctioned mass murder.

I sort of believe something like this will happen, a leftist group like the Squad will get control of the Congress/Presidency, it'll be a leftist authoritarian nightmare then someone in the military will get fed up, cross the figurative Rubicon, destroy the republic and rule with an iron fist. No matter what happens no one will be happy and those leftists screaming about it will get gulaged (or worse), everyone else will be too scared to say anything.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Muh leftists, muh jooos, muh neocons, sandnigger ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh!

God I miss the Chans. It was a great containment zone for all the fucking retards regurgitating this stupid shit. Tumblr is basically dead. Go there. It will be funny and keep your stupid from spreading.

I'm confident there won't be a new war. At a pittance we can send ninja missiles to splatter their top commanders with ease. Boots aren't necessary, and Orange Man knows it. Regardless of all the screeching tards on both side of the aisle who say otherwise.

 

[Spooky Bones]

3,000 more from 82nd Airborne heading to Kuwait

 

[WonderWino]

So what was the US supposed to do? Be attacked at our embassy and accept it? I don’t get why people are so upset that we killed off the people who wanted Iranian hostage crisis part 2?

Exactly. All these people are ranting at trump for doing what was very much the right thing to do but they themselves have no valid alternative option as to what they think he should have done. That says all anyone needs to know about their opinions

That said, this apparently happened. Not confirmed to be the US but i'd say it is. Hopefully i'm not late with this one this time

U.S. Denies Reports Of Another Strike North Of Baghdad [UPDATE]

Iraq has also denied that another airstrike took place one day after the Pentagon admitted to killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

ca.yahoo.com

 

[derpherp2]

So from what everyone's saying here, it's pretty ironic that an action that might've prevented a war is making people panic about starting a war?

 

[samuraicrack]

boy, there sure are a lot of people on twitter who are sympathetic towards a bunch of wannabe Militia men who will gladly kill anyone who even looks American in their country. I'd be lying if I said this wasn't kinda funny tho

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

So what was the US supposed to do? Be attacked at our embassy and accept it? I don’t get why people are so upset that we killed off the people who wanted Iranian hostage crisis part 2?

Yes, Trump hates the towels after all, and that's no good for their brownie points!

Like I said before, if they're promoting terrorism, they're no better than the people committing it.

 

[Kacho]

Wasn't I just supposed to upset with Trump a couple months ago for not going to war? This shit is impossible to keep up with.

 

[RodgerDodger]

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Russia is not backing Iran at this time.

So when even Vladimir Putin thinks you fucked up then you know that you have royally fucked up.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

They actually did it. They wrote a sternly worded letter.

Nothing in Russia’s response should surprise any serious student of Putin and modern Russia. Putin is one of the most easily predictable and easily manageable leaders on the world stage. Don’t fuck around in his ”near abroad” (Ukraine!) and maintain the diplomatic order. Putin will back Trump in this because

A. Putin admires this particular response. It is what Putin views as the appropriate and effective response to attacking an embassy. Regardless of Putin’s views on Trump he will fully support any action that reminds everyone that attacking embassy’s is a terminally bad idea. Trump’s actions are in line with Putin’s well established policies regarding those who attack embassies And threaten diplomatic personnel. So Iran will find no friend there.
B. It’s not just America that have issues with Soleimani. Remember the all the ‘Stan’s? Did anybody catch where Putin called Trump last week, to thank him for providing actionable intelligence that prevented a major terrorist attack in St. Petersburg? Putin is shedding no tears that a disruptive and dangerous actor on his southern border, and with deep ties in his “near abroad” has left the playing field.

Putin is also thrilled that Iran’s idiocy is increasing his price per barrel on the oil market.

Realistically speaking, Iran can no longer field a capable navy. They need to save face or risk another Operation Praying Mantis, and get disastrously curb-stomped again. I do honestly believe the boat swarm midget tactic is just so they can pepper and harass targets but not have to worry about losing anything pretty out of just saving face.

I genuinely think their best asset has always been spinless American politicians sucking them off. If they were smart, they'd wait for a Democrat to get into office.

Iran’s best, or more realistically ONLY asset has been the threat to oil shipping and the straights of Hormuz. The problem is while they weren’t paying attention the US began frakiing and established energy independence without the need of Persian Gulf oil. This is a problem for Iran. While they can disrupt some worldwide oil flow, this disruption can no longer threaten the US economy. (In fact Iran disrupting the Persian Gulf oil flow pumps money into the US economy as the worlds newest biggest oil and gas exporter.) Trump has no real reason to tiptoe around the sandbox, beyond a disdain for extended military entanglements.

and do take note of Joe Biden’s railing against fracking just this week, and look at it through the National Security perspective. That oil and energy independence eliminates a major risk to national and economic security.

Kuwait deciding to dip their toes in and help is suprising but, I guess it does make sense.

Everybody in the region hates Soleimani, the Quds Force and Iran. They all will want to deliver a few kicks to the head out of spite While they are on the ground.

Speaking of Kurds, I haven't seen Turkey weigh in on this little kurfuffle. Anyone have any info on Erdogans reaction?

Suspicion is he shit a brick on the fact that Trump acted so decisively and quickly against someone who crossed him. Alongside his rapid calculation of how much the loss of Soleimani, andIran having to suddenly focus their spending on their own borders instead of meddling elsewhere, will benefit him in Syria. Can he frag a few Kurds while no one is looking? Does the “Trump doctrine“ give him an excuse to target Kurdish leadership? Would Trump in turn drone strike his ass for double dealing and targeting the Kurds? So many questions for the craven and conniving dictator in search of an empire.

 

[pipcome]

So from what everyone's saying here, it's pretty ironic that an action that might've prevented a war is making people panic about starting a war?

No the ironic thing is that this NARRATIVE is sold by the same media/democrat bastards that already sold "grumpf causes ww3 with china, nk, europe and grumpf will wreck the economy the day he is elected oh and btw he is in collusion with russia and a traitor." to the stupid masses.
Lied for years to peoples faces all for the singular purpose of making trump unelectable and some smoothbrains STILL take them at their word and dont look up their bullshit even when they literally provably lie again about ww3 (now the 6 time predicted by media/dems since trump election) .. thats the ironic thing. Dumb ass leftwing social media masses.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I sort of believe something like this will happen, a leftist group like the Squad will get control of the Congress/Presidency, it'll be a leftist authoritarian nightmare then someone in the military will get fed up, cross the figurative Rubicon, destroy the republic and rule with an iron fist. No matter what happens no one will be happy and those leftists screaming about it will get gulaged (or worse), everyone else will be too scared to say anything.

That happened with a few South American military dictatorships. I wouldn’t go as far as say it will happen, but that is a scenario that plausibly could result in a military dictatorship in the US.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

USAF terrorists launched an attack on an element of the Popular Mobilization Forces, a group of militias integrated into the Iraqi armed forces that bore the brunt of the fighting against the takfiri terrorists of 'ISIS'.

Iraqi national patriots are mad. Note the many flags of the PMF in the photos of the protests- the attempt to paint this as just an action by (the heroes of) Kata'ib Hezbollah is obvious and blatant, but it is not true.
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Note all the yellow hezbollah flags. Scumbag terrorists in need of atomisation.

 

[murdered meat bag]

i thought hezbollah worked with christians in their lands.

 

[OnMoTi]

i thought hezbollah worked with christians in their lands.

If by 'worked with' you mean 'subjugated or killed,' then yes. They 'worked' with Christians.

 

[soy_king]

i thought hezbollah worked with christians in their lands.

The Christians have willingly become dhimmi in Syria, so technically yes. In Syria and Lebanon specifically the Christians are more afraid of Sunni islamism than the Shia, so it's more a lesser of two evils scenario

 

[the fall of man]

It’s only the third day of the new year, and Twitter is full of psychopaths who think we just assassinated a dude at random and who apparently have no idea that it’s retribution for an attack on our embassy.
...I don’t even think they have a concept for responding to attacks on embassies.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Slightly more information:

Israelis: Soleimani Intercept Sparked Drone Strike; US Reinforces Region - Breaking Defense

TEL AVIV: Five days ago, an undisclosed intelligence agency intercepted a telephone call made by the head of Iran’s Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in which he was heard ordering his proxies in Iraq to attack the US embassy in Baghdad, as well as other Israeli and American targets, with...

breakingdefense.com

Israelis: Soleimani Intercept Sparked Drone Strike; US Reinforces Region
TEL AVIV: Five days ago, an undisclosed intelligence agency intercepted a telephone call made by the head of Iran’s Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in which he was heard ordering his proxies in Iraq to attack the U.S embassy in Baghdad, as well as other Israeli and American targets, with the aim of taking hostages, Israeli sources say.

It’s unclear whether this was a lapse in tradecraft on the part of the usually savvy Soleimani or whether the notorious Iranian military leader’s phone calls were being routinely intercepted. Nor is it clear whether it was the US or another foe of Iran that made the intercept. Regardless, the intelligence seems to have led directly to Soleimani’s killing yesterday, which has thrown the Mideast into uproar.

Sources here say that Soleimi flew in the Airbus A-320 plane operated by Cham Wing, Flight 6Q501, which took off from Damascus at 10:30 pm and landed in Baghdad minutes before midnight. Minutes later, what are presumed to have been Hellfire missiles fired from a Predator struck and killed everyone in two cars that had picked up Suleimani and other passengers from the flight.


A large ring the Iranian military leader wore helped “forces on the ground” to immediately and positively identify Suleimani’s body. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi Muhandis, deputy commander of the Iranian-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF. Iran has confirmed both men were killed. During the US attack, sources here say US fighter aircraft were airborne to handle any immediate Iranian reaction.

The US announced this morning it was deploying 3,500 additional troops of the 82nd Airborne to the Mideast, joining 750 Airborne soldiers flown earlier this week to Kuwait. That brings the 82nd’s presence in the region to a full infantry brigade. The rapidly deployable paratroop unit keeps a “ready brigade” on alert at all times for just such crises.


Meanwhile, undisclosed numbers of US Special Operations Forces arrived in Jordan. The first elements arrived in Jordan aboard CV-22 tilt rotor aircraft that had been refueled by C-130J. They landed before the strike in the Baghdad airport. The first explanation was that the Americans want to be ready for a hostage situation following the attack by pro-Iranian militias on their embassy in Baghdad.

All this is in addition to 100 heavily armed and specially trained Marines airlifted to the US Embassy in Baghdad. The Marines traditionally provide security for US embassies.


Israel also reacted promptly to the news. Its military is on high alert. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a visit to Greece after receiving online briefings while in Athens. The Mount Hermon ski resort near the Syrian border was closed on Jan 3.

The assessments in Israel are that Iran will not retaliate immediately, but will weigh its course, and may well continue the current strategy, awaiting the results of the US election in November and, in the meantime, try to minimize the economic damage and threat to the regime’s survival. If Donald Trump remains In the White House, Iran is believed likely to negotiate changes in its nuclear agreement with the powers.

An analysis by Roman Schweizer of the Cowen Washington Research Group, who follows defense stocks, offers a grim prognosis of the successful strike: “President Trump’s decision to kill a key Iranian military official could set off a chain of retaliatory strikes on U.S. personnel and assets across the Middle East and globally. To be clear, this is the equivalent of Iran killing the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and then taking credit for it.”

The first glimmers of an active response to the strike ordered by President Trump has come from the Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthi rebels, who threatened to respond “promptly and swiftly.” A strike from such a quarter would be a classic Iranian move, using proxy forces to deflect blame and ensure its efforts to drive change in the region remain paramount.

A response is also likely from Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq, which have in the past fought both against the US and the Iraqi government and alongside them against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State. Many Iraqis are deeply conflicted about Iran’s outsized influence in their country, even among the Shia majority. But most factions are even more sensitive to US intrusions on Iraqi sovereignty and united to condemn the unilateral US strike just outside of Baghdad International Airport , which also killed a prominent Iraqi Shia militia leader. In addition to the expected outcry from Iranian proxies, the attack was denounced by Shia leaders who’ve sought some degree of independence from Tehran, including Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and the country’s moderate Grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani, who called for restraint on all sides.

The airline carrying the Iranians, Cham Wings, is a private Syrian company with its head office in Damascus. It was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department three years ago because “Cham Wings has cooperated with Government of Syria officials to transport militants to Syria to fight on behalf of the Syrian regime and assisted the previously-designated Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) in moving weapons and equipment for the Syrian regime, including by utilizing a relationship with another Syria-based airline, FlyDamas (FDK, Damascus).” On top of that, Treasury said, “Cham Wings’s Damascus-Dubai Int’l flight was one of the main routes SMI used to launder money throughout the region, with SMI paying all parties involved to ensure they would continue to do business with the Assad regime.”

Meanwhile, Washington political leaders reactions were muted and mixed, with most Democrats expressing varying forms of worry and concern about Iran’s reaction and most Republicans expressing resolve and support for President Trump’s action. One strain was persistent and worth noting — both parties said clearly and repeatedly the US does not seek war with Iran.

The chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, did not condemn the killing but said he remains “troubled about the impact this action will have on the safety and security of United States’ personnel and assets in the region. Rather than calming the strained tensions in the region, this action will only accelerate the cycle of violent escalation.”

He called on the Trump administration to “clearly articulate how this action, and potential future actions, will protect U.S. global interests while ensuring the safety and security of our personnel in the region and worldwide. The American people deserve to know why President Trump has brought us to the brink of another war and under what authorization.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking soon after the strike was announced, made clear congressional leaders had not been briefed on the strike beforehand — not even the so-called Gang of 8– and called for an immediate briefing for “the full Congress.”

Meanwhile, Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tim Kaine introduced a war powers resolution to force a debate and vote in Congress to prevent further escalation into full-blown conflict with Iran. The resolution requires that any hostilities with Iran must be explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force, but does not prevent the United States from defending itself from imminent attack.

“The Senate must not let this President march into another war in the Middle East without authorization from Congress,” Durbin said in a statement this evening.

War powers resolutions are privileged, meaning that the Senate will be forced to vote on the legislation.

Smith’s Senate counterpart, James Inhofe, said in a statement that “America does not and should not seek war, but it will respond in kind to those who threaten our citizens, soldiers and friends — as the President has long promised. De-escalation is preferable and possible — but only if our adversaries choose it.”

 

[WutangLee]

So from what everyone's saying here, it's pretty ironic that an action that might've prevented a war is making people panic about starting a war?

Solemani was bragging about waging a 20 year invisible war with the U.S. to the point that he made that his go to source for credibility was bragging about killing Americans. Before that his go to was bragging about killing Iraqi's. I'm not even going to consider the opinions of people who thought this was an unprecedented, unprovoked act of war. And we've been proven correct. They're gonna resort to killing civilians and soldiers in a roadside suicide bombing and call it a great "victory against imperialism"

 

[Shick]

They're gonna resort to killing civilians and soldiers in a roadside suicide bombing and call it a great "victory against imperialism"

That's already been happening for the last 30 years. The only difference is the mouth making the claim.