"Collateral Damage": Trudeau Blames Trump For Iran Accidentally Shooting Down Passenger Plane

[vanzandt]

Osama was a stateless terrorist, not the head of a standing army. Couldn't get more apples and oranges than that.

The name of Qasem Soleimani is included in the United Nations' blacklist of 15 Iranian military and political figures who are prohibited from leaving the country because of their connection with the development of a military nuclear program.

Soleimani and the Quds Force are also the subject of unilateral U.S. sanctions, which classifies the Quds Force as an organization that provides assistance to terrorism, and Soleimani personally as a terrorist.

The general is known as an organizer of sabotage and intelligence operations who has created a wide network of agents with the support of Shiite communities across the region.

"Soleimani is the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today and no one’s ever heard of him," John Maguire, a former C.I.A. officer in Iraq, told the New Yorker magazine in 2013.

 

[Bugenhagen]

Congress only has the authority to declare war on a sovereignty. They do not have the right to prevent a POTUS from taking out a strategic target.

Was anyone complaining when Bin Laden was taken out under Obama? Congress was not notified beforehand. All covert and shit.

In 2001 congressional authorization legislation allowed the U.S. military to target senior al Qaeda leaders such as Anwar al-Awlaki and Osama bin Laden. That covers the legal from a US perspective. Additionally to cover the UN international law side, the US had secret agreements with Pakistan about what actions it could take in that state.

 

[Overnight]

...the US had secret agreements with Pakistan about what actions it could take in that state.

All covert and shit. How about Saddam Hussein?

 

[Bugenhagen]

All covert and shit. How about Saddam Hussein?

He was executed by the state of Iraq.

Gadaffi was killed by Libyans (save you some time there).

 

[Overnight]

He was executed by the state of Iraq.

Gadaffi was killed by Libyans (save you some time there).

I'm batting 1000 on my memory of terrorists. Wheee! But another one bit the dust, so the Freedom Tower still stands today.

 

[Bugenhagen]

Well I'm pretty sick to death of correcting boomers with the minds of tweens, particularly since when they fall asleep anything learned just fizzles away and their subjective "its the truth I feel man" nonsense takes hold again by morning.

So night, I'm off to sit with a dying peeps at the hospice tonight. I'll try and forget this chat asap myself.

 

[Black_Cat]

 

[Frederick Foresight]

What an idiot

 

[Cuddles]

Except Suliemani was declared a terrorist by the US in 2007. Back to apples to apples.

let's quit spreading the fake news...
In 2007, the U.S. included him in a "Designation of Iranian Entities and Individuals for Proliferation Activities and Support for Terrorism", which forbade U.S. citizens from doing business with him.[55][100] The list, published in the EU's Official Journal on 24 June 2011, also included a Syrian property firm, an investment fund and two other enterprises accused of funding the Syrian government. The list also included Mohammad Ali Jafari and Hossein Taeb.[101]

 

[Black_Cat]