Shock and awe ?

Prearranged via back channels. This was their 'face saving out' and was purposely designed to de-escalate. Iran blinked.

Good.

Let's see if Fatso is smart enough to follow suit.

They made sure no American's would fall victims in this attack. Trump's red line in the sand is not Barack's red line in the sand. Believe that.

A Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 carrying 180 passengers and crew just crashed near an airport in Tehran. No word yet in casualties.

One has to wonder...

737 with 180 people crashed in Iran. Either terrorist attack or Iran themselves acidentally shot it down.


https://mobile.twitter.com/alihashem_tv/status/1214756252749877250

Purported Vid of crash, showing flames as it falls.

Damn.

Are you sure it wasn't a 737 MAX?

Hearing reports that all 170 passengers are dead.

Iranian SAM site took it down shortly after takeoff. Who in their right minds would allow commercial flights in that airspace right now? Idiots.

1500+ dead protesters, a crispy fried general, crushed mourners, earthquakes at nuke sites, downed airliners and Trump. Iran isn't having the best start to 2020. They should probably just chill out for bit. Maybe stay in bed or something wise like that.

Besides Pompeo gargling out that when Trump said he wanted to target cultural sites that Trump didn't say he wanted to target cultural sites, my favorite of the day so far is Lt. Col. Felony North complaining that Iran used SAMs...just like the SAMs that he illegally sold to Iran himself.

Fish on...

Todd

I hear they paid cash for the Sam's.
Thanks O'Dumbass!!!

Ding,ding,ding,ding. Trump's ratings will soar.

Why has Ollie North not been hanged?

Just another convicted/pardoned traitor/fakeass republican hero.

so, are we still defending and justifying the life of a terrorist because it was Trump that took him out? Asking for a friend...

So were you born retarded or was there a traumatic brain injury somewhere along the line?

It's a fair question. Seems clear he was not a "good guy." I'm not sure we're any safer, but in principle, I'm glad that dude is dead.

So far, the attacks in this escalated sabre rattling (on both sides) have been planned and executed to cause as few human casualties as possible. So far, the score is one dead contractor for one dead general.

Trump just made an (almost) honest claim that the US has achieved energy independence. Add that to our newfound "safety" in the wake of Soulemani's assassination, and you've got a weak, but somewhat plausible argument that it's time to pull our troops out of Iraq. Didn't someone make a campaign promise about something like that? Doesn't that same someone have a re-election campaign running at the moment?

If you throw out the concern that Putin will simply move in where we vacate (which is real and significant), I'm all for pulling out of the Middle East. It's a really complicated mess, though, and I doubt anyone here will live to see the end of our presence there.

Anyone else think this is all part of a plan?

Trump should just drone strike every bad person on the planet and then we would have world peace. It is as simple as that demotards. MAGA KAGA FAGA.