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Did their job. Ignore the clown.
Ricky Ross (Al Pacino) to Dave Moss (Ed Harris) in Glengarry Glen Ross:
“Fuck you Dave, you know you got a big mouth. You make a close this whole place stinks with your farts for a week – how much you just ingested. AH! WHAT A BIG MAN YOU ARE! Hey, let me buy you a pack of gum I’ll show you how to chew it. Your pal closes, all that comes out of your mouth is bile. How FUCKED UP YOU ARE!”
“Trump’s Syria Troop Withdrawal Complicated Plans for Al-Baghdadi Raid“:
WASHINGTON — President Trump knew the Central Intelligence Agency and Special Operations commandos were zeroing in on the location for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, when he ordered American troops to withdraw from northern Syria earlier this month, intelligence, military and counterterrorism officials said on Sunday.
For months, intelligence officials had kept Mr. Trump apprised of what he had set as a top priority, the hunt for Mr. al-Baghdadi, the world’s most wanted terrorist.
But Mr. Trump’s abrupt withdrawal order three weeks ago disrupted the meticulous planning underway and forced Pentagon officials to speed up the plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pullout, the officials said.
Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death in the raid on Saturday, they said, occurred largely in spite of, and not because of, Mr. Trump’s actions…
“Officials Cringed As Trump Spilled Sensitive Details of Al-Baghdadi Raid“:
Some details the president has revealed are inaccurate, others are classified. Officials say they worry what to put in briefings for a man with no filter…
IRBIL, Iraq — President Donald Trump painted a vivid picture for the world of the deadly U.S. military raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a raid that only a small number of people witnessed in real time.
A “beautiful” and “talented” dog got injured. A robot had been on standby to aid in the hunt for al-Baghdadi if needed. U.S. Special Operations Forces arrived in eight helicopters and were on the ground for about two hours. They entered al-Baghdadi’s compound within seconds by blowing holes in the side of the wall. They chased al-Baghdadi into a web of underground tunnels — many of them dead ends — that they already knew existed. Before the U.S. forces left for the 70-minute, “very low and very, very fast” helicopter ride back along the same route from which they arrived, they captured some of al-Baghdadi’s henchmen and seized “highly sensitive material and information” outlining the origin of ISIS and plans for future plots.
A few of those colorful details were wrong. Many of the rest were either highly classified or tactically sensitive, and their disclosure by the president made intelligence and military officials cringe, according to current and former U.S. officials.
The al-Baghdadi raid is the most high-profile exhibit of a reality U.S. officials have had to contend with since Trump took office: a president with a background in show business who relishes delivering a compelling narrative and deals daily with the kind of covert, life-and-death sets of facts that inspire movie scripts…
“We agonized over what we would put in his briefings,” one former senior White House official said, “because who knows if and when he’s going to say something about it.”
“He has no filter,” the official added. “But also if he knows something, and he thinks it’s going to be good to say or make him appear smarter or stronger, he’ll just blurt it out.”
God save us from this dangerous child.
Discuss.
I bet Michael Daly, in mommy’s basement, had a huge boner!
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*A couple of things worth noting. We never knew that Al-Baghdadi was at Abu Grabe for some time. We did know that he usurped power from the aging Al-Sistani cleric who was the titular head in Iraq when we went in. Supposedly Al-Badhdadi was a Shia? No, then he becomes the head of ISIS? We never heard that ever….until much much later. This whole deal is way iffy. Was Al-Baghdadi on the CIA payroll the entire time? It is not beyond reason to question this relationship with the Turks, the Syrians, the Iraqui’s and the Allies! Someone is going to come up with a Movie that should uncover at the relationships and how they worked. Perhaps we should go to our Kurdish Allies and ask them about all of this. Dark, Cloudy, Uncertain…..nothing definitive….Very Strange Indeed. Even the OBL deal was very odd. The Pakistani’s being his baby sitter for all those years? The Trumpster wanted to get people’s minds off of the Impeachment Process and is again using the Clinton “Wag the Dog”….or his case “Flog the Dog” techniques which inspire his base and make the rest of us……say: “And……” It is also a bit strange that we had no casualties or even anyone injured in the process. Having
Al-Baghdadi Blow himself up along with his three sons is a bit dramatic and rather hard to get a grip on. Where were his Guards? Flogging the Dog too?