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Iran’s supreme leader weeps over slain general’s casket, as partisan tensions intensify in U.S. over Trump airstrike
NY Daily news ^ | 1/6/20 | By Chris Sommerfeldt

Posted on 01/07/2020 3:27:23 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Iran’s supreme leader weeps over slain general’s casket, as partisan tensions intensify in U.S. over Trump airstrike

Iran’s usually stone-faced supreme leader wept over the casket of the country’s slain top military general during an enormous funeral procession Monday, as partisan tensions flared in the U.S. over whether President Trump was justified in ordering the airstrike that killed the notorious commander.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his face streaked with tears, prayed over the remains of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and hailed the fallen Quds Force leader as a “living martyr” during a somber state ceremony at Tehran University. The funeral services also honored a group of Iran-backed Iraqi militia fighters who died with Soleimani as his convoy was hit by a U.S. drone missile outside a Baghdad airport last week.

“Oh God, you took their spirits out of their bodies as they were rolling their blood for you and were martyred in your way,” Khamenei said as the crowd moaned.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: lunatics; waronterror


1 posted on 01/07/2020 3:27:23 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

If Trump were President during WWII, the Democrats would be actively supporting Hitler.


2 posted on 01/07/2020 3:29:00 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

3 posted on 01/07/2020 3:29:11 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Out of the depths of leftist hell, I cry to you oh lord!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Absolutely. Can you believe they were accusing him of war crimes yesterday? Our embassy attacked, burned, our troops killed and it’s a “war crime” to defend them.


4 posted on 01/07/2020 3:30:38 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Out of the depths of leftist hell, I cry to you oh lord!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Khamenei, now you know how the families of soldiers who died fighting in the Middle East felt when their loved ones died trying to stop the evil Soleimani was producing. Now you understand the grief. Yet, your attitude remains unchanged. It is only YOUR sorrow that matters, damn all of the rest. Every time you want to cry out, remember the families of soldiers here whose loved ones died. Think of that, you monster.


5 posted on 01/07/2020 3:31:47 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The US media’s unending eulogies to a vicious terrorist who murdered over 600 Americans. Watch this video : https://youtu.be/odNjYGWjdts


6 posted on 01/07/2020 3:35:57 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Just delicious.

As Conan said: “What is best in life? To crush your enemies and drive them out before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.”

Seeing the Grand Poohbah cry made my day. Straight out of the Wizard of Oz.

Mass murderers consoling each other is risqué like one of those things in The Godfather where its all in the family. Indeed.


7 posted on 01/07/2020 3:58:16 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I love it when the tables turn.

If they do not end their reign of terror, all of them will end up like the slain general.


8 posted on 01/07/2020 4:01:51 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

I keep thinking of the famous medieval hymn by Francois Villon. The things of this life are truly evanescent.

Tell me where, in which country
Is Flora, the beautiful Roman;
Archipiada, or Thaïs
Who was her first cousin;
Echo, speaking when one makes noise
Over river or on pond,
Who had a beauty too much more than human?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!

Where is the very wise Héloïse,
For whom was castrated, and then (made) a monk,
Pierre Esbaillart (Abelard) in Saint-Denis?
For his love he suffered this sentence.
Similarly, where is the Queen (Marguerite de Bourgogne)
Who ordered that Buridan
Were thrown in a sack into the Seine?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!

The queen Blanche (white) as a lily (Blanche of Castile)
Who sang with a Siren’s voice;
Bertha of the Big Foot, Beatrix, Aelis;
Erembourge who ruled over the Maine,
And Joan (Joan of Arc), the good (woman from) Lorraine
Whom the English burned in Rouen;
Where are they, oh sovereign Virgin?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!

Prince, do not ask me in the whole week
Where they are - neither in this whole year,
Lest I bring you back to this refrain:
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!


9 posted on 01/07/2020 4:20:24 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Candor7

This is the famous version by Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES

by: François Villon (1431-1489)

TELL me now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Where’s Hipparchia, and where is Thais,
Neither of them the fairer woman?
Where is Echo, beheld of no man,
Only heard on river and mere,—
She whose beauty was more than human? . . .
But where are the snows of yester-year?

Where’s Héloise, the learned nun,
For whose sake Abeillard, I ween,
Lost manhood and put priesthood on?
(From Love he won such dule and teen!)
And where, I pray you, is the Queen
Who willed that Buridan should steer
Sewed in a sack’s mouth down the Seine? . . .
But where are the snows of yester-year?

White Queen Blanche, like a queen of lilies,
With a voice like any mermaiden,—
Bertha Broadfoot, Beatrice, Alice,
And Ermengarde the lady of Maine,—
And that good Joan whom Englishmen
At Rouen doomed and burned her there,—
Mother of God, where are they then? . . .
But where are the snows of yester-year?

Nay, never ask this week, fair lord,
Where they are gone, nor yet this year,
Save with this much for an overword,—
But where are the snows of yesteryear?


10 posted on 01/07/2020 4:32:57 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

The snakes weep when their poison is no more.

They weep because the General was denied access into the 12th Imam’s heaven, his corpse was dismembered, and all parts detached. As such , even a martyr cannot enter heaven in that oondition according to the Shia teachings.

President Trump scored Big League.


11 posted on 01/07/2020 4:35:31 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SmokingJoe
The US media’s unending eulogies to a vicious terrorist who murdered over 600 Americans.

The video you posted confirms my decision to give up TV going on three years ago now.

12 posted on 01/07/2020 4:44:35 AM PST by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: All

And the Academy award goes to....


13 posted on 01/07/2020 4:55:42 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
a somber state ceremony at Tehran University


14 posted on 01/07/2020 5:27:59 AM PST by silent_jonny ("forward to what lies ahead" -- Phil. 3:13)
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To: Candor7

If they do not end their reign of terror, all of them will end up like the slain general.
.........................................
Why wait? I’m praying to Allah that our President orders a hit on the “supreme leader” while he’s on his knees in his mosque!


15 posted on 01/07/2020 6:17:03 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (abuse of power)
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To: Candor7

President Trump scored Big League.
.................................
And the “supreme leader” should be next. He’s no less deserving of being crushed than Hitler was!


16 posted on 01/07/2020 6:20:34 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (abuse of power)
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To: SmokingJoe

Sickening. Pure 100% Goebells propaganda.


17 posted on 01/07/2020 7:06:35 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Out of the depths of leftist hell, I cry to you oh lord!)
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