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In reply to the discussion: If you want to have a good idea of how the Iranians will react [View all]LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)It's the greatest assassination in the history of the United States. I think Lincoln and JFK would disagree.
Except . . . everyone had heard of Osama bin Laden, and his name is associated with the greatest mass attack on American soil. We knew his face, we knew what he did, and no American wept for his loss.
Plus, there weren't tens of thousands of Iraquis (Afghanistanis? Saudis?) pouring into the streets demanding revenge against the U.S.
As far as I know, Suleimani -- though powerful in Iran and responsible for deaths throughout the Middle East -- wasn't a person whose name was familiar to more than a handful of Americans outside the intelligence and military communities, and I'll bet it wasn't known to a sizeable majority of the people who worked there.
So, while Fat Donnie is taking his victory lap -- and he and his minions are trying to explain (without much success) after the action was taken exactly why the general had to be killed at this time, just when IQ45 has been impeached -- he thinks he's won the Indianapolis 500 when he's actually gotten a participation trophy in a community BMX bike race.
BTW, I predicted that the Repugs and Faux new talking heads would start screaming that the Articles of Impeachment be withdrawn because they distract from the commander-in-chief's (sic) attention toward the (not a war) crisis (that he had created.)
My wife just passed through Fox on the way to another channel and they were talking about just that.