Posted on 12/31/2019 5:18:16 AM PST by mairdie
Security guards were seen retreating inside the embassy earlier on Tuesday as protesters hurled bottles and smashed security cameras outside the buildings.
Flames rose from the compound as furious rioters pressed up against the bullet-proof windows within the complex, taunting the US soldiers within and spraying pro-Hezbollah graffiti over the glass.
Half a dozen US marine guards fired warning shots from the rooftops, followed by tear gas and stun grenades, at rioters who set blazes and smashed up barricades on the ground.
Hundreds of angry protesters, many in military fatigues, set up tents outside the embassy and set fire to trailers used by security guards along the embassy wall.
Twenty people have been reported injured in the carnage.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi pleaded with the mob against any aggression towards foreign embassies and representations in Baghdad, asking protesters outside the U.S. embassy to leave 'immediately.'
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There is no telling what is going to happen between now and November.
They have to stop him, or they are done.
Haven’t heard reports on Americans at Embassy. Anyone know status? God forbid there’s another Benghazi.
Exactly what I was thinking.
But President Trump isn’t a warmonger so I have faith that he won’t fall for it.
I agree. Let the whole area either make it on their own or die on their own. Either one works for me
Amen and amen.
I too agree that trying to convert the Middle East to anything like a a stable democratic society is futile.
Yep! China, Russia are behind instigating this I guarantee you!! Wreck the economy while bring down Trump! We all knew this was gonna happen sooner or later! Impeachment didn’t work so the song continues! God help us because the president has plenty of enemies in our own backyard
( Pentagon). God grant him wisdom and surround him with men of integrity and love of country!
.....created countless frenzied enemies......
don’t throw that trash around here buddy.
they’ve been that way for over a thousand years. Its got squat to do with our actions and everything to do with their allah, satan.
Warning shots?
This was an assault on sovereign US soil (as is any embassy) - not sure what's up with "warning shots".
ANY country that requires having a “fortified” embassy is not worth being in.
Valerie Jarrett is on the move, or is this Kerrys latest advice to them?
Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Northern Africa...on and on and on. How many Trillions of hard earned tax $$$? How many American military deaths/injuries?
Get the hell out of that region. Almost two decade war in Afghanistan...two damn decades!!
We can't even secure our Southern border with Messy-co and we send our young and our tax dollars to that hell hole called the middle east?
Get out of there.
Do you think those neanderthals had the technology to pull the oil out of the ground and build the processing plants to deliver the product around the world? Machines and equipment break down and need repairs/replacement... without these parts, the production would shut down. Seems to me that you could simply suggest that those parts would not be provided if...
“Pack up and leave. Let the ME rot.”
Yeah, that worked so good last time. Maybe they will take out the White House and the Pentagon next time, they came close last time.
A few will peter grenades would have stopped these bastards cold....or I mean stopped them hot!
They would have run for the hills with smoke billowing out of their Hezbolla arses.
You are absolutely right! Islam is a cancer in the human spirit, that turns life on earth into a living hell. It is slaughtering innocent men, women and children as you read this post. All mosques in the United States should be immediately shut down and foreign imams deported permanently. The three hundred thousand Muslim students in our best universities should be deported as well, and the sons and daughters of Americans should take their place. Tell the Muslims:When there are a thousand new churches in Saudi Arabia call us and we can talk; until then, get out and stay out of our country. In the meantime, dismantle your religion; it stinks.
Fire Sec. Pompeo for starting this debacle just in time to interfere in the 2020 campaign.
Both....................
On the other hand, there should be no U.S. interests in Iraq anyway. That place was a sh!t-hole long ago, and Trump knew this damn well when he was a presidential candidate.
Or turn it into a glass parking lot...............
They are dying to run as the AntiWar party but have to get Trump mired in a war first.
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