Anyone following Baghdad events? Just heard US embassy has been breached, workers in safe room

[bobbieinok]

[Zoonart]

1. Trumpghazi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My guess... Putin in phone call demands air strikes. Trump complies... followed by this reaction.

[11 Bravo]

2. Republicans are already demanding a never-ending series of hearings ...

while insisting that the Secretary of State submit to an 11 hour televised grilling.

Or not.

[uponit7771]

3. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. You beat me to it.

[Hortensis]

6. Secretary of state is too busy with Ukraine to attend anyway,

unfinished Trump-Russia/2020 election business requiring his personal presence.

[Hortensis]

7. According to this Reuters reporter, Iran-backed militia rushed the embassy,

NOT the Iraqi citizens who've been protesting in the streets for months now against the government, including against those very militias.

Link to tweet

From WaPo 4 hours ago: Militia supporters chanting ‘Death to America’ break into U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad

Supporters of an Iranian-backed militia besieged the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes, breaking through the first layer of security at the embassy compound and damaging a reception area before being expelled by Iraqi security forces. ...

The Kataib Hezbollah militia vowed to force the embassy to shut down, and protesters set up tents outside the gates as night fell.

[Poiuyt]

5. Did anyone see the movie "Argo"?

This sounds like 1979 all over again.

[Sonny Mirviss]

8. I'm really suspicious about who might be behind this "attack".

Ya know why?

This kind of bot crap is all over Twatter!

Link to tweet

Seems way too convenient.

Just sayin'.

[kentuck]

9. Is this the crisis we have worried about for three years?

Trump tweeted: "This is not a warning. This is a threat".

???WTH does that mean?