Elaborating on several days of US threats against Iran if they retaliate over the recent US assassination of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the US might well kill more Iranian leaders if Iran threatens US interests in its own retaliation.
Pompeo made the comments in the course of Sunday TV interviews, seeking to clarify President Trump’s own threat to launch “disproportionate” attacks against Iran going forward, even as US military officials were saying they didn’t envision any more attacks going forward.
Pompeo’s comments are trying to frame Thursday’s attack, and the changing narrative. Previously claiming Gen. Soleimani was ready to launch an “imminent” attack, he now claimed only that an attack would’ve been “inevitable” if the US hadn’t killed him.
Other reports indicate the assassination was just one of several options for attacking Iran that Trump was given, suggesting that killing Soleimani was a choice, and that the US narrative for why was built after the fact.
Pompeo also dismissed Congressional talk of trying to react to the unauthorized US attack, saying that the president has “all the authority we need” to do what they’d done without informing Congress.
Pompeo went on to say that the only reason the new Iran conflict is happening at all is because of President Obama’s appeasement. This suggests there is not going to be a significant diplomatic effort after the recent US military engagement.
Hot air from the morbidly obese clown that is now a legal and very suitable target for the Iranian retaliation. Either him or the entire US fleet in Bahrain….
When will foreign countries drone strike our military leaders ? Fair is fair ! Start with Pompeo.
they will go after the big fish, not a cum stain like him.
You call Porky Pompass a cum stain? He’s Secretary of State, the head of the State Dept. He definitely deserves being a target of a drone strike. I wouldn’t be surprised if he, Pence, and other Zionist-lovers pressed DJT into ordering that drone strike that killed Quassem Soleimani and 10 others.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he, Pence, and other Zionist-lovers pressed DJT into ordering that drone strike”
Yet again. It couldn’t possibly be on DJT.
It is all for the Saudi’s and Israel. Trump is both their little butt baby boy. None of them do anything except kill innocent people in the world. How many of those babies killed in the last 20 years ever did a damn thing to society and mostly the US of A? All Americans that condone this action are terrorist in my humble opinion. Why should we pay taxes for corruption? Time for a 1960’s PROTEST THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!
It’s now merely “inevitable” that they would have attacked us eventually, if the US govt hadn’t attacked them first… that’s nothing more than a guess and the definition of pre-emptive war, in other words naked aggression. And from USAToday, Trump reiterating that he would hit Iranian cultural sites, even though he must now know that would be another blatant war crime. IMPEACH.
Well, for Iranian retaliation there is no chance of finding a suitable equivalent of General Suleimani in the USA (a beloved, popular, effective leader of military forces acting outside the country) so the USA has already made its biggest blunder. Hezbollah leader Nasrallah has suggested Iranians and their supporters in the Arab world focus on US military forces (who come in vertical and can return horizontal in bags to Trump!) but not attacking civilians.
After all, even the “bad guys” have some principles!!
“This suggests there is not going to be a significant diplomatic effort…”
Ya think?
Is he really begging for Americans to be killed in order to have us screaming for war!
There are enough idiots out there to act upon such threats. Why on earth put our citizens, our soldiers, diplomats in harm’s way? Shame.
“We will continue to fight these battles,” … because there is a “never-ending struggle” until “the rapture.”
-Mike Pompeo
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/pompeo-christian-policy.html
What rapture? That’s merely fiction, started by the author of the Schofield Bible. These “Evangelicals” such as Pence will get a rude awakening if they don’t repent of their sins. They’re fake Christians since they don’t follow the Lord Jesus’ teachings/principles.
It makes me wonder — how are these people not afraid to enter the church?
They have turned back to pure paganism, where truth and justice do not exist — the only truth is what we say it is, and whatever pleases us.
There were books written for our leaders that urge them to adopt pagan ethos, as presumably all leaders must. The project for converting Europeans back to paganism took hold in Europe a while ago.
These are people who lost soul long time ago. Who are dead already just do not know it. In fact pagans possessed deep and abiding connection to nature, and felt spirits that linked them to the invisible.
The modern barbarians are only guided by their zeal for making nature snd people become obedient to their will. They have no link to human sense of justice nor pagan sense of spiritual in nature.
These are zombies, the undead,
Too many Christians focus on homosexuality and abortion despite Jesus not having mentioned either of them in the Gospels. He did mention the poor often. The lonely, sick, meek, imprisoned, refugees… Pence hates those people, they can’t help his career.
time to arrest all these wankers at State, Defense, the CIA, and the White House and send them all off for trial at the ICC at The Hague for their war crimes and crimes against humanity
Some of us have been calling for this for over 50 years. There is no accountability for the WORLD’S WEALTHIEST or any GOVERNMENT! When are people going to start calling the US military what they truly are PAID MERCENARIES FOR CORPORATE AMERICA? Should be CLASSIFIED as TERRORIST ORGANIZATION just like the US GOVERNMENT. We are not the LEAST bit Legit! We the people paying taxes are SUPPORTING GOVERNMENT TERRORISM!
Just know this, we didn’t kill a top general because we could.
Donald Trump & his whole administration; as well as congress, MAKES the most IMPORTANT CASE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN THE USA! Someone please bring out the straight jackets, it is vital to NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE USA!