I just watched Shifty Eyes call it a victory., but... "The Gang of 8 were not informed, and that is a tragedy because we didnt have a chance to warn him".
President Trump got this done even though he has been under extreme pressure from the deep state, the Democrats, some Republicans and the Media. Way to stay focused.
President Trump got this done even though he has been under extreme pressure from the deep state, the Democrats, some Republicans and the Media. Way to stay focused.
I understand the sentiment, but President Trump personally accomplished this in the same way that Nixon personally landed on the moon in 1969 and Obama personally killed Bin Laden in 2011.
Let's give full credit where it properly belongs; to the brave Special Operations soldiers that risked their lives to successfully carry out this operation.
God Bless them all.
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I understand the sentiment, but President Trump personally accomplished this in the same way that Nixon personally landed on the moon in 1969 and Obama personally killed Bin Laden in 2011.
Let's give full credit where it properly belongs; to the brave Special Operations soldiers that risked their lives to successfully carry out this operation.
God Bless them all.
I agree up to a point. The Spec ops soldiers certainly accomplished this,but it would have never happened if President Trump was not focused on getting rid of ISIS.
Respect is earned, not given. This President has earned my respect by working for the good of all Americans. The Democratic Party has lost my respect by working against this President.
That is disturbing yet not of the "headline(s)". There are three different headlines for the same story. They seem to "bend" to social media backlash. "This porridge is too hot. This porridge is too cold. This porridge is just right".
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Originally posted by blackrams: Speaker Pelosi: “Our military and allies deserve strong, smart and strategic leadership from Washington.”
Yeah, I saw that. She is also having a hot flash about not being notified in advance, .
Yes, the graphic was the 2nd of 3 different headlines..each meant to appease a different demographic.
The social pushback has spawned some interesting retorts and comments along the same lines.. Mao Zedong, who saved 20-45 million of his own people from having to suffer through the struggle of existence, died at 82
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That obituary from WaPo. "Austere religious scholar..." I don't understand that. It does not discredit or tarnish any of the News and Op-Ed kind of material that I have offered to this forum over the years--not for me. But it does make me question the competence and mentality of whoever decided to go with that kind of presentation for his obituary. Why even have an obituary in this case? It doesn't make (good) sense.
If he was "whimpering" before his last moments in that tunnel, it may have been a natural and common reaction to the physical pain of a Pulled Hamstring Muscle. Since the raid was designed to be a surprise, I can surmise that he didn't have time to get ready for it and do any stretching and loosening up before it started to go down. He would have been frantic to get to the entrance of that tunnel. Maybe he executed a Jump Cut, or a Hurdler kind of maneuver, jumping high over one of his bodyguards...
...and while most of the world has increased security readiness in anticipation of retaliation attacks, Prime Dipsheet Trudumb doesn't feel the need to.
Guess he doesn't want to inconvenience the ISIS fighters he is letting in up here.
...and while most of the world has increased security readiness in anticipation of retaliation attacks, Prime Dipsheet Trudumb doesn't feel the need to.
Guess he doesn't want to inconvenience the ISIS fighters he is letting in up here.
I would guess then it is good to be out in the country. And maybe to have at least one decent weapon. Or don't they let you have those kinds of toys in Canada?
During special coverage of President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday of the successful mission, National Public Radio (NPR) praised the man who was responsible for beheading three Americans and enslaving and killing an American woman.
Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro led a roundtable discussion with NPR reporters Greg Myre, Tamara Keith and Daniel Estrin about Baghdadi’s death and asked them to tell listeners about the terrorist.
“He led a movement that we’ve never seen before,” Myre said. “ISIS had tens of thousands of members, fighters, coming in from all over the world.”
“They controlled massive amounts of territory — in Eastern Syria and Western and Northern Iraq,” Myre said, adding ISIS had ”millions of people under their control.”
“They administered cities, they collected taxes,” Myre said.
“They had this incredible online recruit presence in terms of spreading propaganda; recruiting followers,” Myre said. “This is a guy that sort of emerged on the scene.”
“And led this group that had done something we’d never seen before,” Myre said.
“This isn’t the end of ISIS, but he was a real leader,” Myre said. “It’s not somebody that they can just appoint somebody else; take over, and the movement continues.”
“His leadership was critical,” said Myre, who finally admitted that the terrorist’s death was “definitely a major blow to the Islamic State.”
Estrin called the successful mission a “symbolic victory.”
Meanwhile, Keith, who is a White House correspondent for NPR, claimed that Trump makes up U.S. foreign policy “on the fly” and the president’s announcement took the “focus away from the muddle and confusion” of his administration.
Washington Post criticised, and lampooned, over Baghdadi headline BBC News; October 28, 2019.
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The Washington Post faced criticism on Sunday for calling Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group who had died the day before, an "austere religious scholar".
The newspaper amended its headline to call him an "extremist leader".
Vice president of communications Kristine Coratti Kelly said the headline "should never have read that way and we changed it quickly".
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The first version of the Washington Post's headline called Baghdadi "terrorist-in-chief", before it was changed to "austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State".