Tuesday, December 31, 2019. The US Embassy in Baghdad is stormed. If you're not an adult, please don't join the conversation, we don't have time for the faux 'resistance' to try to turn this into another obsessive Donald Trump Twitter thread.
Well who didn't see this happening? Basically the entire western press who makes a point to masturbate daily on the public's time when not pontificating about all things small and petty while ignoring reality.
The US Embassy in Baghdad has been stormed today.
What's going on?
Well since the press wouldn't tell you let's watch them scramble.
In the meantime, you can refer to this from Sunday and Monday:
Iraq snapshot
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As we pointed out, attacking Kata'ib Hezbollah was attacking the Iraqi military.
Last Friday, there was a rocket attack that killed 1 US contractor and left four US service members injured. Now they were disappeared from the story, the four wounded. Apparently, it was too 'messy' for the press. The way Mark Bingham was disappeared from the 9/11 coverage when it was discovered he was gay. Not saying the four were gay, just that they 'embarrassed' the press -- remember there's no war in Iraq, Barack ended.
That lie is embraced by so many.
On Sunday, the US government bombed Kata'ib Hezbollah reportedly killing at least 25 members.
Kata'ib Hezbollah -- and all the militias -- were folded into the Iraqi military. Nouri al-Maliki had wanted to do that. Hayder al-Abadi formally did that. Both were installed by the US government. Now many of us were outraged that these thugs were being made a part of the Iraqi military. Barack was president and he didn't opposed a damn thing so take that party to his house.
No surprise, many in Iraq are outraged. Yesterday afternoon came news that the prime minister of Iraq (that's a whole other story -- we'll get to it) was calling out the US government.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday condemned U.S. air
strikes on bases of Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, a move that could
plunge Iraq further into the heart of a proxy conflict between the
United States and Iran.
[. . . ]
“The prime minister described the American attack on the Iraqi armed
forces as an unacceptable vicious assault that will have dangerous
consequences,” his office said.
Merrit Kennedy (NPR) reported yesterday:
"We stress that Iraq is an independent country, and its internal
security takes priority, and serious attention, and will not be allowed
to become a battlefield, or a route for launching attacks," Iraq's
Foreign Ministry said in a statement about what it planned to tell the U.S. ambassador.
[. . .]
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi's office said in a statement that
he received a call from U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper shortly before
the airstrikes and asked for them to be called off. Abdul-Mahdi decried
the strikes as a unilateral act by the U.S.-led coalition that is
considered a violation of Iraq's sovereignty.
She doesn't note what other reports do, Mahdi has stated that as soon as he was informed, he attempted to contact Kata'ib Hezbollah to warn them.
That's a key detail.
It will have a huge impact, going forward, on US government interaction with Mahdi.
A huge detail like that needs to be reported, not ignored.
Falih Hassan and Ben Hubbard (NEW YORK TIMES) report:
Thousands of protesters marched into
Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone on Tuesday after prayer services
for the militia fighters killed in the American strikes. While few of
them were armed, many were members of Kataib Hezbollah and other groups
that are technically overseen by the Iraqi military. The militia is
separate from the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, although both groups
are backed by Iran and oppose the United States.
At
the United States Embassy, protesters broke security cameras, covered
the compound walls with anti-American graffiti and lit a guardhouse on
fire. After breaking open a compound entrance, dozens of men entered and
lit more fires inside while embassy security guards fired tear gas.
The
demonstrators did not break into the embassy buildings, but their
ability to storm the most heavily guarded zone in Baghdad prompted
speculation that they had received at least tacit permission from Iraqi
security officials sympathetic to their demands.
The report has already resulted in two responses on Twitter.
Kareem Khadder, Arwa Damon and Angela Dewan (CNN) report:
The pro-Iranian demonstrators were mostly from Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a coalition of predominantly Shiite militias, and three leaders of powerful militia groups were also seen at the protest.
55 minutes ago, President Donald Trump Tweeted:
So when you see liars and whores Tweeting something from five minutes ago, grasp that they are shameless liars and whores who hopes no one checks on them.
Lying whore. Grasp it, remember it.
And good to know that you have no ethics and a difficult relationship with the truth.
There is a whole swarm of liars who are bound and determined to lie. Why? Because this can't be about Iraq for even one moment. The faux 'resistance' must live their lives through a Donald Trump prism. They're obsessed and they are liars and whores who are destroying the county. Imagine if they'd used that time to work on ending wars, on addressing climate change, on actually doing something. Instead, like rabid dogs, they foam at the mouth and show the entire world that they will lie in their efforts to smear Donald Trump.
I've known Donald for years and, honestly, I'm shocked that anyone has to work so hard to say bad things about him. They really have to work hard and they have to lie. Every time they lie and get exposed, it just shows how unethical they are. It also allows the pro-Trump faction to point out that they were caught lying on this and then argue so they must be lying about something else.
The US Embassy in Baghdad was attacked and they want to play political football with it.
I seem to recall the press and a lot of the public attacking Mitt Romney for doing that with Benghazi.
There's much to address in what is happening right now -- including should US forces still be on the ground in Iraq -- a much larger issue than Donald Trump.
There's the fact that Mahdi is strutting around as prime minister again. Supposedly, he was going to be in the background until replaced. There's the anger over the attack on the Iraqi military -- that's what Sunday's bombing was -- which has many Iraqis outraged.
The Iraqi people do not want to be controlled by the US government or by the Iranian government. There is, for some, an anti-Iranian government aspect to the ongoing, months long protest.
The strike on Sunday was not smart in a large number of ways. I'd noted Condi Rice here and how every time it seemed Moqtada al-Sadr was on the ropes in the early years of the Iraq War, she'd make some stupid remark that elevated him instead of letting him hang himself. Now Moqtada's one of the country's most popular leaders. Thank Condi for that.
And thank Donald Trump for blowing the moment where strong divisions were emerging between Iran and Iraq.
There are real issues at stake here, including the future of Iraq.
So if you think you're helping anyone by lying that Donald Trump hadn't Tweeted about the attack, you're not.
The world can't afford you. You may have the luxury of lying and indulging in sloth but the world is suffering and if you can't address that you really need to stop pretending you're part of a grown up conversation.
There are real issues here and maybe the immature 'resistance' can't handle real issues? Who know. A Tweet from a guy who served in the US Navy exhibits outrage that Donald is saying Iraq must protect the Embassy.
Any US Embassy has a small number of military support for protecting. But it is always the host country's job to protect an embassy on their soil. And what was the Iraqi government's response? Did they send forces to attempt to disrupt the crowd attacking? If not, why not?
They may have sent some contingent of forces (they should have) but what they did needs to be known and discussed.
These are real issues.
Know4LIFE Retweeted Press TV
Know4LIFE added,
We don't need to be sheltered, we need to have an adult conversation.
Is that true? I have no idea. But it's a scary thought, "American Soldiers Seen Trapped on Roof." If that's true, it needs to be reported. If it's true, we need to seriously look at what's going on. I'd argue for Congressional hearings. That image, I would argue, demands Congressional hearings.
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