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Here’s the background on what just happened,

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/poli ... index.html

If you read the whole story,it seems that the U.S launched an attack on the same group on December 29 last year in Iraq (when Triump was still President).It’s funny,but I don’t remember anyone here complaining about that particular attack.Or any other previous attack for that matter.
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doriswilgus wrote:Here’s the background on what just happened,

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/poli ... index.html

If you read the whole story,it seems that the U.S launched an attack on the same group on December 29 last year in Iraq (when Triump was still President).It’s funny,but I don’t remember anyone here complaining about that particular attack.Or any other previous attack for that matter.
Check my posts from 2017.

I criticised Trump when he bombed a Syrian airbase unnecessarily based on flimsy evidence that Assad used chemical weapons against his citizens.
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Jezza wrote:
doriswilgus wrote:Here’s the background on what just happened,

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/poli ... index.html

If you read the whole story,it seems that the U.S launched an attack on the same group on December 29 last year in Iraq (when Triump was still President).It’s funny,but I don’t remember anyone here complaining about that particular attack.Or any other previous attack for that matter.
Check my posts from 2017.

I criticised Trump when he bombed a Syrian airbase unnecessarily based on flimsy evidence that Assad used chemical weapons against his citizens.
2017 is probably too far back for me to check.But if you said that at the time,then that’s good.I think it’s good that you took a stand on the issue.
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doriswilgus wrote:This was an attack on terrorist groups who have been attacking US forces in Iraq,not an attack on Syria the country.Quite a big difference.You don’t think that the U.S has the right to defend itself when its forces have been attacked by terrorists?
You’ve missed my point completely.
Apart from that I suppose you wouldn’t mind it if the Chinese bombed houses in Melbourne if there were anti CCP protestors living there? Because they wouldn’t be attacking Australia then, would they?
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Deleted.CBF’d arguing with the Wally.
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Is militia a better word,David?When they're firing rockets at you,i think it's just a matter of semantics what you call them.
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doriswilgus wrote:Here’s the background on what just happened,

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/poli ... index.html

If you read the whole story,it seems that the U.S launched an attack on the same group on December 29 last year in Iraq (when Triump was still President).It’s funny,but I don’t remember anyone here complaining about that particular attack.Or any other previous attack for that matter.
Good on him. Blasting Iranian backed terrorists / mercenaries / armed militias who are not Syrian in Syria. Go for it. The US can’t allow Iran to take over the whole region despite Trumps best efforts in making Russia, Iran and North Korea great again.
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watt price tully wrote:
doriswilgus wrote:Here’s the background on what just happened,

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/poli ... index.html

If you read the whole story,it seems that the U.S launched an attack on the same group on December 29 last year in Iraq (when Triump was still President).It’s funny,but I don’t remember anyone here complaining about that particular attack.Or any other previous attack for that matter.
Good on him. Blasting Iranian backed terrorists / mercenaries / armed militias who are not Syrian in Syria. Go for it. The US can’t allow Iran to take over the whole region despite Trumps best efforts in making Russia, Iran and North Korea great again.
I don’t know why people here are objecting to it really.It was a limited targeted strike on one group apparently.As far as we know no civilians were killed.In the CNN article it said that they scratched a second strike for fear that civilians might have been caught up in it as well.

As I said before all presidents do this sort of thing in the Middle East,even the great peacemaker himself,Trump.In the article I posted it mentioned that Trump bombed the same very group on the 29th of December 2019 and there have been various attacks before that as well ,yet I don’t remember anyone here complaining about his bombing of these people.Funny about that.
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doriswilgus wrote:Deleted.CBF’d arguing with the Wally.
Good decision.
It’s very hard to argue when you don’t understand.
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5 from the wing on debut wrote:
doriswilgus wrote:Deleted.CBF’d arguing with the Wally.
Good decision.
It’s very hard to argue when you don’t understand.
I do understand.You just didn’t make a very good point,
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