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The U.S Military Kills The Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Update: Trump Reportedly Authorized Soleimani’s Killing Seven Months Ago

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Duckworth Rips Into Doug Collins

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) fired back at Rep. Doug Collins’ (R-GA) assertion that Democrats are “in love with terrorists.”
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Duckworth Rips Into Doug Collins: ‘I Left Parts Of My Body Behind Fighting Terrorists In Iraq’

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) fired back at Rep. Doug Collins’ (R-GA) assertion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to hold a vote on the War Powers resolution shows that Democrats are “in love with terrorists.”

On Thursday morning, Collins told Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs that Pelosi and the Democrats “are in love with terrorists” because “they mourn [top Iranian military official Qasem] Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who suffered under Soleimani.”

During an interview on CNN Thursday afternoon, Duckworth — who is a combat veteran of the Iraq War — refused to “dignify” Collins’ remark with a response.

“I’m not going to dignify that with a response,” Duckworth said. “I left parts of my body in Iraq fighting terrorists. I don’t need to justify myself to anyone.”

When asked about her view on Collins’ argument that Gold Star families have become a pawn in this political discourse, Duckworth said she was “disgusted” because she “would never, ever use Gold Star families, military men and women or their families as any pawn in any political game.”

Duckworth then said that “this issue is about America’s national security” and “is not a partisan political issue.”

“My concern is: Is America safer today than it was before the President made this rash decision without considering the consequences and having a plan in place to handle the consequences?” Duckworth said. “And my answer at this point is no.”

Duckworth added that she is “not sad” that Soleimani is dead, but that “the poor handling of the White House” puts American forces “under greater danger of attacks from Iran and other hostile forces in the Middle East.”

“I am not sad that this man is dead. I am glad that he’s gone to meet his maker and that he will get his just desserts,” Duckworth said. “But at the end of the day, because of the poor handling of the White House and the consequences of their actions, American troops are now hunkered down. American forces are now under greater danger of attacks from Iran and other hostile forces in the Middle East.”

Duckworth also argued that because “now potentially we have innocent civilians who’ve been shot down by Russian-made missiles coming out of Iran,” she doubts that “this makes us or anywhere else in the world any safer today as a result of this poor decision by the President.”
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Professor who jokingly said Iran should list 52 U.S. cultural sites to bomb has been fired

In an uneasy moment, Asheen Phansey was trying to be funny.

Amid recent tensions between Washington and Tehran, during which President Trump threatened to target 52 sites “important to Iran & the Iranian culture,” Phansey suggested that Iran’s supreme leader might want do the same ― and get specific.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “should tweet a list of 52 sites of cultural American heritage that he would bomb,” Phansey, an adjunct professor and administrator at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., wrote on Facebook earlier this week. “Um … Mall of America? … Kardashian residence?”

He would later describe the post as a “bad attempt at humor,” telling Boston news outlets that he was only poking fun at the nation’s relative lack of ancient culture. But his apology couldn’t save his job: The business school announced Thursday it had fired him.

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Last year, the Iranian leader explained what they meant when they say Death to America.



I mean that's pretty severe rhetoric, but ummm...how many people here really disagree with that? You have the hardcore Trumpists and that's about it.
 
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State Department Rejects Iraqi PM’s Formal Request To Begin US Troop Withdrawal

Insisting that the U.S. "is a force for good in the Middle East," the State Department on Friday shot down Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's request that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo send…
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Iraqi Prime Minister Asks Pompeo To Begin Process Of US Troop Withdrawal


Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Friday that he asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to send delegates to devise a plan for the safe withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

Mahdi announced in a Facebook post that he had spoken to Pompeo over the phone on Thursday, during which he asked that the U.S. respect the Iraqi parliament’s resolution approving the expulsion of foreign forces from the country.

Pompeo promised to follow up on the request, according to Mahdi.

The State department did not immediately respond to TPM’s request for confirmation.

The past week has seen a major rise in hostilities with Iran thanks to President Donald Trump’s strike on a top Iranian military leader, and the chaos has been further complicated by the Trump administration’s fumbling response to Iraq’s decision to have foreign troops removed.

After Iraqi parliament passed its resolution on Sunday, President Donald Trump threatened to slap Iraq with “very big sanctions.”

But the next day, the Pentagon sent a letter to Iraq’s Ministry of Defense saying the U.S. would leave Iraq — then Defense Department leaders walked back the letter and told the media there was “no decision whatsoever” to leave the country.

However, the Iraqi officials said on Tuesday that they expect the U.S. to follow through with its notice anyway.

“As a state, we deal with the official letters that we receive, and we will act in accordance with this letter,” an official told the Washington Post.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper stood firm on the Pentagon’s retraction of the letter.

“We are not leaving Iraq, and a draft, unsigned letter does not constitute a policy change,” he said during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
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