Posted on 08/02/2017 8:30:12 PM PDT by LSUfan
The deputy commander of Iran’s notorious Quds Force bragged at a recent ceremony that his operatives have killed more Americans than U.S. troops have killed Iranian fighters.
Brig. Gen. Ismail Ghaani was referring to Iran’s major intervention in the Iraq war to supply Shiite militias with supercharged explosives that could penetrate U.S. armored vehicles. The Pentagon has estimated the Quds Force, an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed 500 Americans that way.
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I’m thinking we ought to do a Yamamoto on him....
Iran is the root of evil in the world today for terrorism, no doubt at all. Why Trump allowed the Obama deal to stand is a mystery to me. And why is this guy still alive? Surely we have ways to shut him up permanently.
I think Brig. Gen. Ismail Ghaani just signed his death warrant.
He’s right.
Iranian designed IED’s killed many of our troops.
Manning disclosed how we were countering them and should be shot as a traitor.
“do a Yamamoto on him....”
Kill him just as a training exercise for the new guys.
“do a Yamamoto on him....”
Kill him just as a training exercise for the new guys.
I second that...
Challenge...accepted...
Iran has it in for the USA over the war Iran had with Iraq in the 80’s? They lost many soldiers, many were just kids, who were sent in to fight, and they got slaughtered by artillery supplied and operated by US advisors. They haven’t forgotten it. Of course the Mullahs who sent the kids out there are as pure as winter snow. Maybe now, something can be done for regime change in Iran. I think most of the people there have had it with the mullahs and the revolutionary guards. A Persian spring is over due.
This talk is predictable, because it’s true.
GWB allowed this to happen and did nothing.
He had Iran almost surrounded with troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. I thought this was a masterful move. After all, Iran was the worst enemy.
But in the end, he did nothing against Iran. Iran’s involvement with the shaped-charged IED’s killed and maimed so many of our service members, and was the cause of the American public losing confidence in the Iraq war.
And GWB never did anything about this. Not one effing thing.
This contributed to the Republican defeat in 2008, and an acceptance of the Obama policy to prematurely pull out. This, of course, led to ISIS.
I still wonder why GWB never confronted Iran about these shaped charges when he basically had them surrounded with American troops.
No disrespect intended, but Iranians and their government were chanting “Death to America” long before their war with Iraq.
Death seems rather extreme for Manning's crime.
How about we wack off his wee-wee and make him dress like a girl ?
Financed by B. Hussein who was above investigation.
Obama let the new Iranian Revolution die on the vine a few years back. ValJ wouldn’t have it.
I believe it. Obama has been sacrificing our best for years. That is over, although the misery and horror obama has inflicted on American families will endure forever among them.
Iran is a piker compared to Saudi Arabia. Islamic terrorism thy name is Wahabism. The House of Saud has built its empire on the blood of innocents. Wahhabists perpetrate the vast majority of terrorist attacks outside of the Middle East.
Yes, Iran cowardly kills American soldiers in the AOR, but primarily because American policy served up those soldiers on silver platters. America has no strategic interest in the Middle East and our armed forces shouldn’t be used as mercenaries in a proxy war. Either conquer and divide the spoils (as the Left accuses) or get the hell out.
I’m going to dispute your’s and the general’s claim. I was there at the time and having to convoy to do work I was very well appraised of the threats, countermeasures and incidents with these weapons.
The concave copper plate clipped to the top of an artillery shell charge was first used against an up-armored HumVee in Najaf in late 2005. It successfully penetrated the passenger side and killed the soldier seated there. However the setup for the attack was complex, used multiple charges emplaced above ground on pedestals and was only effective when a penetrator struck the vehicle adjacent to where a passenger was seated. These attacks only occurred a few times a week and most did not result in casualties.
The countermeasure was identified within a few weeks. Ceramic armor plates and even ballistic window glass would stop the copper penetrator.
Lastly, it was the KGB/FSB which trained the Iranians and Shia militias in the south so the Iranian general can hardly claim credit.
The Iranians et al, Mahdi, Quds and IRG, were tards who died in large numbers in Najaf and Karbala in 2004 and 2005. Ask Third Armored Div (3AD) and MEF vets about it. After 2005 the Iranian forces in southern Iraq were for the most part eradicated. The only remnant was in the Brit sector around Basrah, due mostly to Brit’s ROE not permitting offensive operations. It really pissed off the contractors working there because it made things much more dangerous than it needed to be. It was provocative and encouraged attacks. When the Iranians were defeated in US areas they lost big face with the locals and withdrew. When the Brits didn’t attack it emboldened them, gained local prestige and encouraged attacks which showed the locals who controlled the area and had the initiative. The Brits unwittingly provided the Iranians the means to grab power.
The Sunni insurgent media sources used by the MSM were not active in Shia areas so there was no reporting. 3AD had a pretty much weapons-free ROE and Army air support helicopters supported their operations. The Iranians liked to setup command posts in banks and basements of hospitals (after looting them and local businesses). So US tanks and Apaches fired into the enclosed spaces each provided and the Iranians died. Boo hoo, never made it to the MSM.
This is a face-saving BS/PR story from the general. His troops and the local Shia boys/fools who followed them died by the thousands. The Iraqi Shia did not like them either. After the Mahdi was removed from Najaf they tried moving into Karbala. The residents of Karbala revolted against them. When the Marines were dispatched from FOB Hotel the Iranians returned to Iran.
The Iran deal is still there because the other countries that signed on won’t agree to break it, and because didn’t Trump recently sign off that they were in compliance.
Provocative, but this seems a relative nothing burger, intended by the neocons to get folks stoked up to hit Iran. Right now IIRC they are operating there with permission of the Syrians and Iraq. We are not in Syria with permission of the Syrian govt.
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