Timbuktuo:


Trump will be re-elected with or without any conflict. In fact, I’d say he stands a greater risk of losing the election if he gets involved in any silly skirmishes.

It is my opinion that you are ignorant of American politics

coluka:

*Trump takes out Iranian terrorist general with a surgical drone strike, zero collateral loss of life*

Liberal dumbos: ORANGE MAN WANTS WAR!

MrPrsdent:
On the killing of the Iranian General :

Impeachment and election politics by Trump.

Usual republican tactics while approaching tricky presidential elections: Try to start a war and rally the country behind you. Before you know it election is won while lives of American soldiers are sacrificed on the altar of politics.

When he tore up the Iran nuclear deal,i told friends that he will start a war with Iran closer to the election .

A40:
Shut up you Trump worshipping Muppet. I'm not a liberal. Just against actions that can lead to another war in the Middle East and other regions that would cost more lives again

happney65:


Does it sound Familiar?

coluka:

Dear Liberal dumbo,
This is what happens when a mind is parasitized by a cocktail of idea pathogens. Please take your medication at the prescribed intervals for a cure to your grotesque inability to think.

Kopfschmerzens:


The mix message from the department of state, Baghdad consulate and Pompeo just confirm all the clusterfuckery that characterized that senseless decision by your tin god.

coluka:

Like I asked someone earlier, The IRGC is a terrorist organization. It’s commander is an authorized target under the current AUMF and responsible for ordering attacks that killed Americans. Qasem Soleimani was a terrorist directly responsible for the murder of over 500 US service men & women, he set up the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, carried out a rocket attack on a compound that housed some 100 US personnel. A civilian Department of Defense contractor was killed.

What would you prefer? Have him continue his attacks and not respond?

Timbuktuo:
The DHS needs to look into so-called Americans who are content with an attack on US territory but not with a retaliation on the masterminds of the attack.

Imagine hating Trump so much and aiding with terrorists. Liberalism is truly a mental problem

Kopfschmerze:


Wow!!! So you suddenly love America, what a nonsense two face liar. Ain't you the same Russia/Putin ass licking idiot. Please do us a fav and GTFOH clown.

somtookeke:

Cardi B threatens to file for Nigerian citizenship after Donald Trump’s ‘dumbest move’ to date
https://speakersden2..com/2020/01/cardi-b-threatens-to-file-for-nigerian.html

raumdeuter:
After the attack on the embassy maybe Trump should have gone on an apology tour to beg for mercy

Timbuktuo:
The DHS needs to look into so-called Americans who are content with an attack on US territory but not with a retaliation on the masterminds of the attack.

Imagine hating Trump so much and siding with terrorists. Liberalism is truly a mental problem

Timbuktuo:
The absolute state of liberals. Really pitiful

coluka:


Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder, if hitler were alive today and Trump attacked him, these crazy liberals will support hitler against their own country, TDS has driven them mad.

coluka:

Really pitiful indeed, very pathetic!! liberals have completely lost it. Imagine a US citizen tweeting this nonsense

coluka:

Really pitiful indeed, very pathetic!! liberals have completely lost it. Imagine a US citizen tweeting this nonsense

TheShopKeeper:
Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal Concerns

https://www.justsecurity.org/67863/exclusive-unredacted-ukraine-documents-reveal-extent-of-pentagons-legal-concerns/

“Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold.”

This is what Michael Duffey, associate director of national security programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told Elaine McCusker, the acting Pentagon comptroller, in an Aug. 30 email, which has only been made available in redacted form until now. It is one of many documents the Trump administration is trying to keep from the public, despite congressional oversight efforts and court orders in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation.

Earlier in the day on Aug. 30, President Donald Trump met with Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the president’s hold on $391 million in military assistance for Ukraine. Inside the Trump administration, panic was reaching fever pitch about the president’s funding hold, which had stretched on for two months. Days earlier, POLITICO had broken the story and questions were starting to pile up. U.S. defense contractors were worried about delayed contracts and officials in Kyiv and lawmakers on Capitol Hill wanted to know what on earth was going on. While Trump’s national security team thought withholding the money went against U.S. national security interests, Trump still wouldn’t budge.

Thanks to the testimony of several Trump administration officials, we now know what Trump was waiting on: a commitment from Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.

But getting at that truth hasn’t been easy and the Trump administration continues to try to obscure it. It is blocking key officials from testifying and is keeping documentary evidence from lawmakers investigating the Ukraine story. For example, this note from Duffey to McCusker was never turned over to House investigators and the Trump administration is continuing to try to keep it secret.

Last month, a court ordered the government to release almost 300 pages of emails to the Center for Public Integrity in response to a FOIA lawsuit. It released a first batch on Dec. 12, and then a second installment on Dec. 20, including Duffey’s email, but that document, along with several others, were partially or completely blacked out.

Since then, Just Security has viewed unredacted copies of these emails, which begin in June and end in early October. Together, they tell the behind-the-scenes story of the defense and budget officials who had to carry out the president’s unexplained hold on military aid to Ukraine.

The documents reveal growing concern from Pentagon officials that the hold would violate the Impoundment Control Act, which requires the executive branch to spend money as appropriated by Congress, and that the necessary steps to avoid this result weren’t being taken. Those steps would include notifying Congress that the funding was being held or shifted elsewhere, a step that was never taken. The emails also show that no rationale was ever given for why the hold was put in place or why it was eventually lifted.

What is clear is that it all came down to the president and what he wanted; no one else appears to have supported his position. Although the pretext for the hold was that some sort of policy review was taking place, the emails make no mention of that actually happening. Instead, officials were anxiously waiting for the president to be convinced that the hold was a bad idea. And while the situation continued throughout the summer, senior defense officials were searching for legal guidance, worried they would be blamed should the hold be lifted too late to actually spend all of the money, which would violate the law.