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Do you support Donald Trumps assassination of the Iran General? (I do)

Terrorists must be stopped. Put a line in the sand.
Fuck yeah.. another one of McCain and Obama’s buddies dead.. just a few more and peace talks will be possible..

Heads up leader of hamas 🤣
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
Keep trying though... you can even use a dictionary if you need@Itsmeagain
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
Your limp dick mom may have one. Oh... a dictionary is a book. It has words in it@Itsmeagain
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
You got clever right. Thank you. @Itsmeagain
jackson55 · M
He should have been taken out years ago.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@yogibooboo I forgive you.
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@yogibooboo Thank you and I apologise to you.
yogibooboo · M
@Itsmeagain Thank you, Nice gesture, me too!
BlueVeins · 22-25
No, I don't support it. We wouldn't have had this whole problem of Iranian proxies killing US soldiers and contractors if we hadn't invaded Iraq in the first place. The US toppled the government of a sovereign state; we never apologized for it and 200,000 innocent people died at a minimum. So of course the Iranians resisted violently.

The fact is that Soleimani -- despite his moral failings in Aleppo and elsewhere -- was one of our most powerful allies in our fight against ISIS. He fought against Hussein's genocidal campaign against Iran in the '80s which we supported, and he's cooperated with the US against the Taliban following the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Besides, killing Soleimani was the perfect way to unite the people of Iran against us. Trump's sanctions against Iran, while idiotic from a strategic perspective, succeeded at dividing the country and igniting mass-protests. The regime was flagrantly oppressing everyone and the citizenry was 100% aware of that. 1,500 people were shot in the streets and thousands more were arrested. Nothing unites a people though, quite like the martyrdom of a national figure like that. Did you see the guy's funeral crowd? Absolutely shocking. The last thing we need is the Iranian people rallying behind their murderous fundamentalist government.
@QuixoticSoul Literally the first we heard of Iran being behind these militias was from Mike Pompeo when he claimed Iran was funding ISIS which makes about as much sense as the Pope funding the UDA in NI.

When Suleimani was whacked he was actually meeting with Saudis to come to some sort of truce with their proxies.



Lol. Americans think in news cycles. I am sorry but this goes back all the way to the 90s when the CIA convinced the Shia in Iraq to revolt and then left them to be massacred. Like the Kurds they haven't trusted the US for decades. At best the US is regarded as a means to an end. And it also does not change the fact that the majority in the country told the US to get the hell out. The Trump Administration is completely ignoring them and arrogantly demanded that Iraq pay the bill for US imperialism for their sovereignty back. You think that will garner good will?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow No, this is not the first time we’ve heard about Iran’s Iraqi proxies.

[quote] In 2006, at the height of the bloodshed in Iraq, Soleimani took a break from managing Asaib and its sister groups in order to supervise another Iranian proxy, Hezbollah, in its escalating war with Israel. During his absence, U.S. commanders in the Green Zone noted a sharp decline in casualties across the country. Upon his return from Lebanon, Soleimani wrote to U.S. commanders, “I hope you have been enjoying the peace and quiet in Baghdad. I’ve been busy in Beirut!”[/quote]

From a rather excellent write-up on Soleimani’s career by West Point’s faculty.

The other major player in the car was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, whose role is also not really in dispute.
@QuixoticSoul Well if it is in an American newpaper it must be true. And West Point is totally impartial. lol

And it still does not change the fact that both under US and international law extra judicial assassinations of military officials is not legal.

It also ignores the fact that it tells the world anyone who does not like the US all US generals or intelligence officiers are fair targets at any time.

Just like after the "we tortured some folks" fiasco any American who believes their opponents will abide by the Geneva conventions now is an idiot.
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@JAYS21 Yeah trump is a fucking loser
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@RamessesII That seems... rigid and impractical.
TexChik · F
@RamessesII libtards usually don’t !
Budwick · 70-79, M
Yes.
I do NOT support the word 'assassination' being used in this context however.
Taking out a legitimate military target, a named terrorist is NOT assassination.
daisymay · 51-55, T
@Budwick I mean, what kind of moron thinks that McDonald's didn't exist until after the Vietnam War? That's really fucking stupid.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@daisymay Do you remember when you said [quote]We can safely ignore anything you have to say about any subject[/quote]

I know it was 2 minutes ago, but do you remember?
daisymay · 51-55, T
@Budwick Do you remember when you said that McDonald's hadn't been invented yet during the Vietnam War?
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
The only thing i regret is that we can't kill him twice.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Pitchblue I probably should. They are the only things a mental midget like you can understand
TexChik · F
@HoraceGreenley Any beautiful Muslim woman in that society gets raped repeatedly until she marries. They hang the women who kill their would be rapists, so getting raped is just a fact of life. The ugly women don't get touched. So he gets 72 of those "virgins" . A fate worse than death?
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@TexChik nice bunch of guys, huh?
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
Strange how America can take out evil people on the other side of the world, yet do Jack shit about the KKK! 🤷‍♀️
Just saying..
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@JT123 [image deleted]
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@Harriet03 😂😂😂😂
JohnOinger · 41-45, M
Stevy · 46-50, M
First and foremost, I am not a trump supporter, but I did agree with the assassination of the Iranian General. He was responsible for the deaths of over 600 Americans! And after the death of this last contractor, he proved he would not stop killing. So yes he should have been erased from the face of the earth. And if it wasn't America that did it, it would have been someone else.
Stevy · 46-50, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Agreed. As I stated earlier, our President is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. 🤷‍♂️
Stevy · 46-50, M
@QuixoticSoul I can admit stupidity. 🤷‍♂️ you got me.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Stevy It’s not stupid - there was a media blitz from certain quarters to make it [i]appear[/i] that way.

Soleimani was not some kind of a devil. He’s never really been implicated in any atrocities, etc. in classical terms, it’s hard to even call him a terrorist. He was a soldiers

But he was an enemy soldier - one that had a lot of American notches on his belt.
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
YES! UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP has done an incredible job for the world ordering that rotten puke blown to shreads was a wonderful thing for the entire world. MAGA BAYYYYYYYBEEEE!
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@Itsmeagain Uh oh 😧
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@SimplyTracie 😂😂😂😂
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@Itsmeagain 😂😂😂
jeancolby · 31-35, F
@jackjjackson you sunspots and pixie all appear to be one person.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Now now, no need for conspiracy theories.

Sporty has a very particular set of disabilities. If he had an alt, you’d know.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
He’s getting my sock puppets all confused. @QuixoticSoul
BobbieT · M
Trump didn’t assassinate the General but I support his decision to take him out.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
I do not. If the General and Trump was on the battlefield and Trump shot him, that would have been fine. I don’t think shooting anyone to teach them a lesson is right.

However, I’m glad he’s dead.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@quitwhendone Then... she won’t be assassinated
@SimplyTracie I am saying just because the trumpster excludes her from her proper role doesn’t mean that isn’t her job. He needs to be impeached precisely for behavior like this and it wouldn’t hurt to include the recent assassination
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
It was not an assassination it was the smart killing of an evil enemy spymaster.
@jackjjackson Only in your twisted imagination. Only an idiot or a zealot like you could claim it was not political.
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@jackjjackson just taking out the trash
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Lincoln, JFK and MLK were political. @PicturesOfABetterTomorrow
To bad all he did is put a bigger target on the US and put every person in the Military overseas at more risk than they already were for absolutely nothing because he's already backed down.
@QuixoticSoul Trump has been escalating this situation for Israel and the Saudi's since 2016. He wants to rent out young American men and women to them. "The Saudi's will pay" It's really sad we can't figure out who Trump is working for because it's not the American people.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Pitchblue But you seem unhappy he did not follow up Iran's missile strikes with our own?
@QuixoticSoul This was like shutting down the Government, the exchanged one general for another and put US soldiers in even more jeopardy for nothing. He fucked the Government employees and got nothing. He destroyed US markets with tariffs and got nothing.
JT123 · M
If you're an American you support killing these scum 100%, Sadly we have a lot of Americans who are defending a guy who would cut their throats and laugh while they bleed out!
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@JT123 Very true this country has become overrun by treasonous pukes.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
I'd like to see the evidence on what alledged attacks we in the works first before rendering a final judgement.
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@beckyromero You wreak of bias and all this crap you libtards try to blur the lines with is tired and totally rediculous.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@Itsmeagain

nonsensical answer
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@beckyromero Apparently not because this exact montra has been on display for almost four years and it's really went nowhere beyond petty partisanship. He not acting like a monarch for Christ sakes he didn't send us into war and he was within his rights that's all been established you like the Democrats are quibbling over why. Here's your answer HE'S THE PRESIDENT HE CAN, WHY BECAUSE PRESENTS CAN DO THINGS.
JBird · F
He didn't kill a terrorist. Not all brown people are terrorists. Why are some people stupid enough to overlook the fact that this broke the nuclear deal and opened to a new crisis and tension between US and Iran
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@JBird he was indeed a terrorist
JBird · F
@WizardOfAahs blame north korea. But ignore what Trump got y'all into.
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
???@JBird
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M
IKR, right? @Itsmeagain
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@SimplyTracie YES TRACIE YES IT IS.
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@jackjjackson 😂😂
TexChik · F
Yes... he had to go !
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
YES I WHOLE HEARTEDLY SUPPORT THE BLOODY DEATH OF ANYONE IN THE WORLD THAT IS IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO INJURING OR KILLING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. The rest of you can kiss my fuckin ass I don't care if they kill you all.
raysam363 · 31-35, F
Seems like it was mostly college age students upset in the US, and the NIAC was happy. What a world.
raysam363 · 31-35, F
@WizardOfAahs I can only say what I saw. Mostly younger people protesting, while the NIAC (National Iranian American Council) was happy. I'm not all knowing, and I have better things to do that constantly look up Trump and people who dislike him.
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
I don’t dislike or like Trump.

The biggest problem this country is facing now isn’t Trump.... it’s the people who judge everything they see by one thing... is it pro Trump or against Trump.

Seems a poor lens for making choices about who’s going to affect your taxes, the deficit, health care, infrastructure... whether the US continues to be the dominant world power.

Think things are bad now... wait until we look like Europe and China is the leading economy.

Hope your “better things to do” includes judging who can lead this country better than Moscow Mitch or everything should be free AOC
@raysam363
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@raysam363 Define happy.

[quote]WASHINGTON DC – In response to reports of Qassem Soleimani’s death as a result of airstrikes in Iraq, NIAC President Jamal Abdi released the following statement:

“The last thing the world needs is yet another disastrous American military adventure in the Middle East. [b]The assassination of IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani is a profoundly reckless move[/b] that will be viewed as an act of war in Tehran. The most aggressive hardline elements inside Iran have just been given a massive opening to consolidate influence internally and respond violently externally.

“Iran is a nation of 80 million innocent people, most of whom do not want war and oppose the actions of their own government. Similarly, Iraq is a nation of 38 million who deserve peace after lives filled with war. And the American people have seen enough of wars in the Middle East that have no end, only new beginnings. Yet many thousands of innocents in each country will be the victims of a conflict that will be difficult to confine within any one nation’s borders.

“There is no Congressional authorization for a war with Iran, and the legal authority for this assassination on Iraqi soil is dubious at best. Soleimani himself has blood on his hands, yet that is neither an authorization for a war nor a just cause for starting one. Moreover, there is a fierce nationalist streak in Iranian politics, and Soleimani himself polled as one of the most popular figures within his country.

“We call yet again on leaders in Washington and Tehran to halt the escalation spiral, invite in intermediaries and negotiate their differences before it is too late and a regional war is upon us. There is no singular decision that necessitates a bloody and costly war that will have no victors. Millions across the region are praying and hoping that this reckless assassination does not open pandora’s gate.”[/quote]

Also, just as a bonus...

[quote]
NIAC Statement on Iran’s Decision to Reduce Compliance with Nuclear Deal

In response to reports that Iran would continue to reduce compliance with the Iran nuclear deal, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) issued the following statement:

“[b]The catastrophic ineptitude of President Trump’s maximum pressure strategy is yet again on full display[/b], this time with Iran’s nuclear program. From the assassination of Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani to now a further reduction in Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement Trump has worked to unravel, this president’s policies have accelerated the prospects of war, the specter of nuclear proliferation, and instability in the region. At every crossroad where a diplomatic offramp was possible, Trump has chosen self-defeating conflict and inexplicable escalation.

“Despite Trump taking the U.S. very nearly to a point of no return, it appears Iran is still keeping open the prospect of saving the nuclear deal that remains the best vehicle to impose limits on Iran’s nuclear program.

“Even as it ceases application of its commitments, and amidst threats from the U.S. president that he may bomb Iranian cultural sites, Iran’s announcement appears to be a deliberate step to ensure that the nuclear agreement can remain at least in life support. While nuclear safeguards have been downgraded with this final step, Iran’s professed willingness to continue providing IAEA nuclear inspectors access to its nuclear sites and its continued implementation of the Additional Protocol suggest that even at this reduced state, the JCPOA is still an option on the table for the international community – and perhaps Trump’s successor – to salvage.”[/quote]
Graylight · 51-55, F
So a general who fought against Isis is a terrorist because he's not on our side, but any American general who orders drone strikes and heads campaigns in other countries is a hero. Hmm.
JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M
If you believe it was an assassination, then you are ok with the President breaking US law.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@JoeyFoxx Eh, it's a stupid law. The CIA should have just been reigned in through policy changes.

Now we have these goofy euphemisms - but targeted killings are assassinations no matter how much lawyers dance around it.
JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M
@QuixoticSoul I’m on the fence. Clearly he needed to go, but with an open emergency declaration, it’s technically a military strike.

It’s just a weird slippery slope when everyone isn’t on the same page
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@JoeyFoxx That's the sort of goofy lawyer shit you have to do when you make basic tools of realpolitik illegal. Permanent emergency, and worldwide battlefield with no defined enemy. It's meaningless.

Regardless, even in times of open war - taking out a high value target in a deliberate surgical fashion is an assassination. There's no real reason to treat it as a dirty word, these are big boy games.
TexChik · F
Trump definitely took out the trash ... that guy had it coming fir over 40 years . Sends a clear message to terrorists. Trump [b][i]will hunt you down [/i][/b] and kill you
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
Soleimani was not really a terrorist except maybe by largely meaningless post-9/11 flavor of the term. He was mostly involved in proxy warfare - something quite different.

But yeah, the assassination was a good tactical move - it seized the initiative because otherwise we were just reacting and letting Iran dictate the terms of the situation.

I was pretty impressed with it, but watching the administration's attempts to communicate on the topic is making me suspect that Trump basically blundered into it. Worse, there is no real strategy for what comes after.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Pitchblue Shit was already heating up so it's hard to say - and Iran's proxies have already killed hundreds of our soldiers in Iraq.

Doing it in a single missile strike from their territory, would, of course, be completely suicidal, so it's not exactly impressive that they didn't.
@QuixoticSoul Where are all these hundreds of soldiers they killed? The Trump admin keeps saying Americans, this whole thing started with one dead contractor.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Pitchblue In Iraq, during the bloodier years of the occupation - when Iranians directly trained and supplied shiite militias and ran operational control. This isn't a secret, and was never hidden.

[quote]Soleimani soon intervened more directly in Iraq, too, sending in Shi`a militias as proxies. Under his leadership, the Quds Force stood up a number of militias for the express purpose of attacking U.S. and allied troops. Collectively, these organizations were responsible for hundreds of coalition deaths. One of them, Asaib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), claimed more than 6,000 such attacks between its creation in 2006 and the U.S. withdrawal in 2011—an average of more than three per day, every day, for five years.

In 2006, at the height of the bloodshed in Iraq, Soleimani took a break from managing Asaib and its sister groups in order to supervise another Iranian proxy, Hezbollah, in its escalating war with Israel. During his absence, U.S. commanders in the Green Zone noted a sharp decline in casualties across the country. [b]Upon his return from Lebanon, Soleimani wrote to U.S. commanders, “I hope you have been enjoying the peace and quiet in Baghdad. I’ve been busy in Beirut!”[/b][/quote]

Soleimani had a long and productive career. He is a fascinating character, I recommend studying up.
MrAboo · 36-40, M
Based off what he said, he made the right call. Iran is just having a temper tantrum that Trump drew a line and said don’t cross it.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@MrAboo [quote]He may not know all the laws and is doubling down not knowing his proposed actions are unlawful. That’s why he has advisors who will correct him. He’s not dangerous.[/quote]
A president that isn't stupid as shit would know that targeting cultural sites without military necessity is a war crime. Because any functional adult knows this.

A merely stupid president would run this sort of shit by his advisors before stating it, and then keep his mouth shut.

A dangerously fucking retarded president runs his mouth on twitter, makes the whole country look fucking retarded, and is then forced to walk it back by the press.
MrAboo · 36-40, M
@QuixoticSoul go to hell
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
Groofydorkgerdo · 56-60, M
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Someone oughta but the president a whiskey
@Groofydorkgerdo
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HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
StrictLoving · 56-60, M
Do you support Donald Trump's assassination?
StrictLoving · 56-60, M
@StrictLoving prolly shouldn't joke. I'll have secret service at my door.

JUST A JOKE, GUYS!!!
No. Murdering a foreign general without a declaration of war is a crime even under US law. And anyone who takes what Mike Pompoms says seriously is an idiot.
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Please stop being stupid 🙄
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout That is ultimately irrelevant and does not change the law. By your logic literally every nation who's military engages in covert operations including pentagon officials are legitimate targets for murder.
@Itsmeagain I am sorry you find facts and the law inconvenient.
He is an idiot and needs to be impeached
when it comes to terrorists, you hit them when you can, where you can. the senate and house should be behind the President when he makes such a move and no authorization needed
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow he took out a killer of our troops libtard
@saragoodtimes He took out a general in an army. You can't arbitrarily murder foreign military officers.
@saragoodtimes And for someone claiming to care about troops you support the legal precedent Trump set to have the US army declared a terrorist group in Iran. Hell by this metric the head of the CIA could be executed for terrorism on her public record alone.
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Budwick · 70-79, M
@pismo [quote]hoping the guy drops dead isn't illegal[/quote]

But what you said was - "I would support the assassination of Donald Trump,"

Words matter.
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Stevy · 46-50, M
@SW-User Your enjoying this aren't you?? 😉😏
SW-User
@Stevy Just the comments of those derailing... LOL
Stevy · 46-50, M
@SW-User I just like to rebuttal, even if I'm talking out of my Ass 😉
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@HoraceGreenley Is that the wrestler Trump tackled to the floor? Such a wuss. 🤣
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
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The man is dead. There's shit we'll never know about why he was targeted and taken out, despite what the major news networks report, be their position, pro or con on his assassination. And I'm willing to bet, until he was killed, most Americans never had any idea of who he was. He was not the Osama Bin Laden figure. That said, I see the current status between Iran and the U.S., despite the General's death, easing somewhat. Hopefully things will start to calm down.
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
@soar2newhighs Hoping it’s not the calm before the storm.
@SimplyTracie IMO, it's not. I think there was much stuff done between the US and Iran, and perhaps other major players from other countries who stepped in and are still trying to get this whole thing behind us.
SW-User
No. This top general was killed over a lie that he was going to attack the U.S. And now U.S. troops overseas have to deal with the consequences.
Jeffrey53 · 51-55, M
I hate politics so it doesn’t matter to me
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@Jeffrey53 Oh, well thanks for taking the time to add your non-answer🙄
Jeffrey53 · 51-55, M
You very welcome @Itsmeagain
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
He put a bomb in the sand... so, yeah
@WizardOfAahs "What! No butter, margarine, hahahahahhahahahahaha whada loser.

Toast
WizardOfAahs · 46-50, M
I don't, it poured gasoline on an already hot situation unnecessarily. And we now know the General was running back channel meetings to reduce tensions in the region. It was a foolish decision from a foolish president.
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@RandomForest have to call bullshit
@MasterLee Then you haven't been reading the news.
MasterLee · 56-60, M
@RandomForest Actually I do regularly. Were you watching msdnc freakout channel?

Or orange man bad cnn?
yogibooboo · M
No. He was a military general and Iran does not sponsor wanton terrorism. You need to read a bit more to actually understand what is happening before you pose the question.
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
I agree with the result but not that term. He wasn’t murdered either. A rabid dog was put down. @bowman81
Ramon67 · 61-69, M
BalmyNites · F
Yes I wholly agree, arrest Trump pronto
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
@BalmyNites Oh damn I'm sorry, I should have looked at it closer. Once again my apologies.
BalmyNites · F
Itsmeagain · 51-55, M
GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M
Yes, I believe it was a necessary action
Thore · 51-55, M

 
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