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Missiles fired toward US consulate in Iraq came from Iran: officials

You do know that they aren't talking directly with the United States now, right?

If their goal wasn't to have a nuclear weapon, they wouldn't be pursuing nuclear weapons...
Which part of a missile strike furthers this plot? "Let's piss off the superpower" gets them closer to a nuclear weapon how?
 
Which part of a missile strike furthers this plot? "Let's piss off the superpower" gets them closer to a nuclear weapon how?
If it delays a deal that will include monitoring of their activities, it's a win for them.
 

Hey Biden, going to bomb one of Iran's big war leaders like Trump did? How's that Iranian peace deal going?
Biden will do nothing. As usual. Then have a press conference to claim he did something and how great it was. Then he'll say he can't take questions or he will get in trouble. Sad!
 
Check your history book under the section on "FDR" how he sat back and let Hitler run rampant over Europe.
Get ready for the onslaught, you just insulted the President that liberals build shrines to worship.
 
So it looks like, from what I can tell, it didn’t harm any US citizens or US property.

Why is this our problem?

Not for lack of trying.

It's like having a neighbor firing his rifle into your yard and just shrugging because he hasn't hit anyone yet...
 
Not for lack of trying.

It's like having a neighbor firing his rifle into your yard and just shrugging because he hasn't hit anyone yet...
In this case, it would be 4 houses down. The US doesn't automatically have a right to protect or claim land that is outside the consulate.
 
In this case, it would be 4 houses down. The US doesn't automatically have a right to protect or claim land that is outside the consulate.

THe missiles landed on consulate property. The fact that Iranian missiles are hopelessly inacurate still leaves you with your dismissal being a matter of pure luck, which is thin gruel.
 
THe missiles landed on consulate property. The fact that Iranian missiles are hopelessly inacurate still leaves you with your dismissal being a matter of pure luck, which is thin gruel.
Can you can cite that the missiles landed on US property?
 
Something doesn't add up here. Why would Iran fire missiles at the U.S. consulate when they are attempting to ratify a nuclear treaty with the U.S.?

I think we need to find out who stands to gain by destroying the nuclear treaty. It sure doesn't seem like Iran would.

And piling on Biden right now is the last thing we need to do.
Never seemed to be a concern with the previous administration.
I'll let you consider why is it a concern now and not then all on your own.
 
THe missiles landed on consulate property. The fact that Iranian missiles are hopelessly inacurate still leaves you with your dismissal being a matter of pure luck, which is thin gruel.

Again, your argument still assumes that the missiles hit their intended target.. but since Iranian missiles are more terror weapon than p[recise strike weapons, let's look at their motive, rather than what the missiles actually hit:


"Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard"

So were they retaliating against the Israeli strike by firing missiles at Iraqis?

Where do you suppose the Iranians believed the "Israeli Spy fascility" was located (assuming we believe the Iranians about anything), since the missiles landed all around the US consolate? :unsure:

Based on my analogy, you have bullet holes on the wall all around you and have concluded your neighbor must not be shooting at you.
 
Iran went pretty silent under Trump after Solemani got blown up.
Except their MO didn't change. Funding their proxy groups still continued, and those groups were still operational, so I'll assume the measure of success you're leaning on is widely reported incidents?
 
Never seemed to be a concern with the previous administration.
I'll let you consider why is it a concern now and not then all on your own.
Yeah, well, the previous administration was never concerned with their piling on anyone and everyone angrily, preemptively, repeatedly, feverishly!

That was well established fact of how it would be with a Trump administration on June 16th, 2015.
 
Yeah, well, the previous administration was never concerned with their piling on anyone and everyone angrily, preemptively, repeatedly, feverishly!

That was well established fact of how it would be with a Trump administration on June 16th, 2015.
So much partisan hypocrisy. Incessant piling on in one case and 'don't you dare' in the other case.
 
So much partisan hypocrisy. Incessant piling on in one case and 'don't you dare' in the other case.
No partisan hypocrisy on my part. I have never said to anyone to not pile on any administration, including this current one. But equally I am not about to pretend the last administration got more than they were giving.
 
Iran would stand to gain; they would gain time to complete their weapons program.
The one the idiot Trump reneged on while the IAEA confirmed Iran was complying with all regulations? Can't really blame Iran for Trump's arrogant stupidity by tacitly giving them the go-ahead.
 
Look at all the Traitor trolls in this thread
 
The orange shit gibbon aka Trump tearing up the Nuclear Deal America & others nations had established with Iran and then the orange shit gibbon aka Trump needlessly killing the Iranian General who was in Iraq and then bragging about it has more to do with this move from Iran than anything legitimate President Joe Biden has done.

But of course folks in denial of reality will have no problem getting all giddy blaming the wrong folks.
That Iranian General had a very large hand in killing Americans. He needed to be killed. One of the very few things Trump did right
 
Except their MO didn't change. Funding their proxy groups still continued, and those groups were still operational, so I'll assume the measure of success you're leaning on is widely reported incidents?

Not really. Solemani was a mini-dictator in the Iranian external war funding and management. It took a long time to rebuild when the mastermind died, if they have even now, mostly because Solemani commanded respect and alliance because he was believed (in some cases literally) to be bullet proof. Once he died it was hard to find someone with his unique combination of intelligence, ruthlessness and charisma that was willing to step under the next hellfire missile.

I'm sure recruiting is a lot easier with Binden on the other side, though.
 
Not really. Solemani was a mini-dictator in the Iranian external war funding and management. It took a long time to rebuild when the mastermind died, if they have even now, mostly because Solemani commanded respect and alliance because he was believed (in some cases literally) to be bullet proof. Once he died it was hard to find someone with his unique combination of intelligence, ruthlessness and charisma that was willing to step under the next hellfire missile.
Iran didn't take long to replace him with his second in command: Esmail Ghaani. I can't imagine that any military organization is going to be so dependent on one figure that its core functionalities rely on that person. Much of the ground work that had been laid in terms of Iran's relationships with its extremist proxies. From a leadership perspective I'm sure it was a loss, but hardly one which have upended their entire operations.

I'm sure recruiting is a lot easier with Binden on the other side, though.
How so? For me the biggest signal of a potential opening was with the isolationist tendencies of the former administration. The withdrawal from Syria and the Doha Agreement were pretty clear signals the US was taking a different course as it related to foreign conflicts; particularly in the Middle East.
 
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