Trump puts Iran on notice: 'They will be held fully responsible'

[jpak]

Source: Military Times

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Iran that it would be held accountable after protesters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad in response to recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

“Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many,” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. “We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!”

The Iraqi protesters were reacting to the five airstrikes the U.S. conducted Sunday in Iraq and Syria, which took out 25 fighters linked to Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that is part of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces. Kataeb Hezbollah and PMF flags were seen carried by some protesters, according to multiple media reports.

The U.S. strikes followed a rocket attack Friday at an Iraqi coalition base in Kirkuk that killed a U.S. civilian contractor and injured several American service members. The U.S. believes the Iraqi Shiite militia is the culprit behind Friday’s attack in Kirkuk, along with multiple other attacks targeting coalition installations in recent months. Iran has rejected accusations that it was involved in any recent attacks though.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Giving trump a war

might preserve his presidency.

An excellent way of punishing the U.S.

Of course, they would have to depend on trump supporters to help.

[Maxheader]

12. I wonder how much sway..

dementia boy has with operations? Can the bastard actually get the armed forces to do what it wants? Hell do they even know who is giving them grief? Lotsa different factions out there looking to draw yankee blood..

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. "If we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?" IMPOTUS during

transition briefings. He reportedly asked about it three times.

Be afraid, Tehran, be afraid.

[Turbineguy]

20. The Dept of Defence

were worried about Nixon too after he was about to be impeached.

Let's hope there are some safeguards in place.

[EndlessWire]

21. Maybe we could

make it abundantly clear to TP that we WILL change CiC war or not.

[former9thward]

23. Who is "TP"?

[onecaliberal]

2. Here we go. Putin has now talked dump into America fighting his was with Iran by proxy.

[former9thward]

22. Russia and Iran are allies.

You may want to rethink that CT.

[Farmer-Rick]

28. No we will NOT stop Iran or even bomb them because Putin

Shorty Putin is a long standing ally of Iran.

He is not going to let his puppet attack Iran. Like he didn't let the puppet do anything with Venezulia.

All Traitor Trump is allowed to do is talk trash.

[durablend]

3. Gotta wag that dog

"Can't have that damned Pelosi make a fool out of me!"

[gab13by13]

4. So Iran is friends with Hezbollah,

Putin is friends with Iran, their supreme leader was just in Moscow visiting Putin.

My question to Trump is, when are you going to put Russia on notice for backing Iran?

[JonLP24]

6. I don't blame Iran for protestors

US has been in that country for a long time the people have a right to be upset. I don't condone violence just the protests.

[gab13by13]

15. I don't blame Iran either,

I was just making a point about "Iran backed." So if Russia gives Iran missiles and rockets and Iran gives some to Hezbollah, shouldn't Trump be putting Russia on notice?

We sell Saudi Arabia bombs that kill innocent Houthi civilians, shouldn't the Houthis put Trump on notice? If I were an innocent Houthi who lost my children from American bombs I would want revenge.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Projection 2.0

THEY will be held responsible, but not ME!!!

[RKP5637]

7. The beating of war drums begins. n/t

[underpants]

8. Trump probably gave himself a "gimme" from the fairway so he could send that tweet

Mark me down for a birdie.

[Iliyah]

9. Putin and China are not going to allow this . . .

Rattling the fears for the not too bright in the USA. t-rump, administration and the Republican party don't give a shit about anybody's lives except for their own.

BiBi is quite pleased.

[getagrip_already]

10. if iran isn't careful, trump will....

Order a salvo of mean tweets from his supporters, along with coordinated meanie comments from his cronies at the nyt. Then will come a final barrage of both sides do it from chuck toddler..

Putin won't let him use any real weapons. Putin will just let trump humiliate america in whatever way he sees humorous at the time.

The only real weapons trump uses will be on our allies or citizens. Iran has nothing to worry about.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. The war he and Bibi wanted

Just in time for the election.

[gab13by13]

16. Watch out, there are people here,

who will call you anti-Semitic if you say bad things about Bibi.

[at140]

26. Bingo! You have smarts!!

[Traildogbob]

13. Quote from George Pappard

"I love it when a plan comes together". Putin is masterfully working his puppet, trump, and will certainly destroy America. A good ole military draft will wake up these 18-30 year old brats, too busy to vote. We may not last for that to even happen.

[former9thward]

25. No one wants a draft.

Least of all the military. Try again.

[Traildogbob]

30. Of course we don't

I did not want it when I was 19 during Nam. My number was 324, but I "joined" the Navy. My only point was if we are losing soldiers in GOP wars for greed faster than they are replaced, and there are 5-7 wars going on, somebody will need to man the weapons the Industrial Military Complex are raking in trillions for. One damn thing for sure, my generation had no right to vote, and were being sent to die, we fucking sure faught to get that right to vote and......we fucking sure voted. These younger adults need to take that right, and be aware, if not, these war hungry GOP non serving Hawks, will have no problem sending them to die, while already taking the right to vote away.

[moreland01]

14. trump is doing this

to appease Bolton and assure he won't testify. Bolton has always wanted a war with Iran.

[agincourt]

18. Gosh it wasn't that long ago,

when Trump gave the green light to Erdogan to rape, stone and murder anti-jihadist Kurds, it was because of his "campaign promises to end, endless wars". Gee whiz, what is different now?

[EndlessWire]

24. And no one is saying anything about a Syrian reaction

to the bombing. There's been a lot of buddy crime going on here.

I hope the Embassy personnel are safe. It makes no sense for the personnel to be hanging out in a safe room with Marine guards. Why aren't they running helos in and airlifting them out? Somebody's lying, or this is an opportunity for Trump drama. I don't trust anything Trump says about it.

[Miigwech]

19. The dummy does dumb over and over again

Not great for our troops!!!!! I have two nephews over there and worry about trump's slipshod policies that affect our military

[ripcord]

27. From the comments here

It seems people are once again fine with Iranian sponsored terrorists. To be clear what happened was an Iranian backed terrorist militia attacked a US base with 30 rockets killing an American and now people have their panties in a wad because the US counterattacked the base where these attacks originated. It is definitely time to take out troops and our money our of Iraq.

[Politicub]

29. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Trump is a noisy madman. He can do a lot of damage but the world sees him as the fool coward that he is.