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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:49 AM Jan 2020

Trump really pissed at Iraq!!!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/trump-threatens-to-slap-sanctions-on-iraq-like-theyve-never-seen-before.html

“If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.”

“We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it,” Trump said.

The president added that “If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq.”

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Trump really pissed at Iraq!!! (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 OP
Go sit on your golden toilet and poop,... but please don't tweet. magicarpet Jan 2020 #1
I was loving the unanimous Iraqi parliament vote to Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #3
and be sure to flush 15 times RAB910 Jan 2020 #23
Bullies are always pissed SCantiGOP Jan 2020 #2
Not insane. Kid Berwyn Jan 2020 #4
So earlier he was bombing 52 sites, and now he Tipperary Jan 2020 #5
The 52 sites are in Iran. The sanctions are for Iraq Caliman73 Jan 2020 #7
Oh duh. My bad. Past my bedtime. Tipperary Jan 2020 #8
No worries. Caliman73 Jan 2020 #13
No, I did not take that as hostile at all. Tipperary Jan 2020 #16
Thanks. It's a full time job trying to keep up. It's like Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #11
He is making it up as he goes along. LakeArenal Jan 2020 #29
Did you see this ! Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #31
The world. Something Dump can never get. LakeArenal Jan 2020 #32
Good I now hope they really do kick us out. roamer65 Jan 2020 #6
They want him out as bad as we do. ooky Jan 2020 #9
That makes me so sad...poor enlistees having to follow Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #12
And their families. ooky Jan 2020 #14
He sounds like the substitute teacher when the students have run amok Beringia Jan 2020 #10
Like from Ferris Bueller Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #15
I just watched the scene on youtube Beringia Jan 2020 #30
They owe us fuck all. It's their country not ours. Crunchy Frog Jan 2020 #17
They didn't ask us to build an embassy. Cartoonist Jan 2020 #18
China and Russia team up with Iran safeinOhio Jan 2020 #19
Maybe he's also pissed 2naSalit Jan 2020 #20
The American people are really pissed at trump and the republicans for this duforsure Jan 2020 #21
No stinking laws apply to the USA malaise Jan 2020 #22
It's all about money for this guy....only thing that matters. spanone Jan 2020 #24
Trump could gift the base to Russia Bad Thoughts Jan 2020 #25
So much for them regaining their sovereignty in 2004. sinkingfeeling Jan 2020 #26
Then the F**king Moron shouldn't have ceeded the US influence in Iraq to Iran... Hugin Jan 2020 #27
Who imposes sanctions? Bettie Jan 2020 #28
 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
3. I was loving the unanimous Iraqi parliament vote to
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:55 AM
Jan 2020

kick us out.. yet somehow knew Dipshit would never comply.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
5. So earlier he was bombing 52 sites, and now he
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:01 AM
Jan 2020

is talking about sanctions? I cannot keep up with this looniness.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
7. The 52 sites are in Iran. The sanctions are for Iraq
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:11 AM
Jan 2020

The war crime Trump is proposing is a threat against Iran if they retaliate for him murdering their general. That is different than the sanctions which is Trump's tantrum against the Iraqi government wanting to expel US troops over the provocation of Iran.

One of the results of the US destabilizing Iraq has been a much closer relationship between Iraq and Iran, who were mortal enemies and fought a long bloody war during the 1980's. Trump being an idiot is pushing the two rivals closer together and joining forces against the erratic actions of the US.

So Trump wants to commit war crimes against Iran, and wants to destroy Iraq's economy and occupy the country in retaliation for trying to assert its sovereignty.

He isn't loony. He is stupid and dangerous.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
8. Oh duh. My bad. Past my bedtime.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:15 AM
Jan 2020

Thank you. And yes to your last sentence. I feel we are literally living in an ongoing disaster.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
13. No worries.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:21 AM
Jan 2020

I apologize if my tone came across as hostile.

Just wanting to get the information out there and obviously, my opinion about the dangers of having a complete idiot in charge of such a potentially destructive force as the US military and economic weapons.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
16. No, I did not take that as hostile at all.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:35 AM
Jan 2020

Stupid of me to misread that so badly lol. I never mind being corrected when I make dumb mistakes. Now, I WILL go to bed!

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
11. Thanks. It's a full time job trying to keep up. It's like
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:19 AM
Jan 2020

he is making it up as he goes along. His luck - his followers don't read the news.

ooky

(8,924 posts)
9. They want him out as bad as we do.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:17 AM
Jan 2020

Everything he touches turns into pure shit.

And now he's going to put an occupation force there in that terrorist cesspool he's created. What an opportunity. Join the military and go guard Shiites that hate your guts. How appealing. Sounds like a good life for "patriotic" magats.

His foreign policy is a fucking disaster, from Kim, to treatment of our allies, to the Kurds he murdered, and now this shit?

Beringia

(4,316 posts)
30. I just watched the scene on youtube
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 10:18 AM
Jan 2020

and no that doesn't match. When I was in grade school, we would have substitutes, and the trouble-making kids would start to test the teacher, by making stuff up and making a huge fool out of them. In a comic scene, you could take this to an extreme, where the teacher has no control, and just starts yelling louder and louder and the class just ignores them.

Happens to parents too when they don't have a clue how to calmly have authority and are totally incompetent to do that.

Crunchy Frog

(26,587 posts)
17. They owe us fuck all. It's their country not ours.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:43 AM
Jan 2020

They never wanted any of our super expensive bases in their country, apart from the duress of being under occupation.

If you build a castle on sand, don't whine when it washes away.

Cartoonist

(7,317 posts)
18. They didn't ask us to build an embassy.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:48 AM
Jan 2020

He probably thinks of it as one of his hotels.

If they formally demand that our troops leave, then they have to leave. Or Donald declares he is ruler of Iraq and that it is now an American territory.

safeinOhio

(32,690 posts)
19. China and Russia team up with Iran
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:49 AM
Jan 2020

for war games. Looks like no one will follow his sanctions on Iran anymore.
Trumps coalition for military action in the Middle East will consist of one squad of fighters from the Philippines and some cash from SA, as their army couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag.

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
20. Maybe he's also pissed
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 03:58 AM
Jan 2020

that those three, china, russia, iran, had war games going on and -45 wasn't invited.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
21. The American people are really pissed at trump and the republicans for this
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 06:53 AM
Jan 2020

And when they see their energy costs , and goods skyrocket upward a lot more every time he speaks they'll take it out on trump and the republicans for allowing this to happen. Its all backfiring on trump and the gop now. When this escalates with oil tankers becoming targets it'll jump up much more hurting our economy, just what putin wants trump to do for him. putin wants to control oil , and other resources , so he can manipulate who gets it , and he'll shake those countries down for more money when he gets more control. trump has claimed in Iraq we should have taken all their oil, and will try to do this now in Iran , with putin backing it.

Hugin

(33,164 posts)
27. Then the F**king Moron shouldn't have ceeded the US influence in Iraq to Iran...
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:40 AM
Jan 2020

( and China and Russia ) by violating Iraqi sovereignty with an extrajudicial assassination of a legitimate high ranking Iranian official on Iraqi soil.

I get physically ill when I think of all of the lives of American troops and Iraqis who were squandered with this single act of utter stupidity by the Trumpanus. I may never recover from it...

Bettie

(16,110 posts)
28. Who imposes sanctions?
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:41 AM
Jan 2020

The president or congress?

I suppose these days it doesn't really matter, he does what he wants and no one can stop him.

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