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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by MANNABBQGRILLS: 8:16am On Jan 06, 2020
SAY NO TO TERRORISTS.

SAY NO TO TERRORISM.

Let's make love, not war!
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by ricmx(m): 8:16am On Jan 06, 2020
Dem no go kill our client I pray.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Btruth: 8:16am On Jan 06, 2020
DMerciful:
Difference between US Congress and Nigeria Rubber Stamp National Assembly!
exactly

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Mammangaddafi(m): 8:16am On Jan 06, 2020
Meanwhile, Nigerians that should be more concerned about where they next meal is going to come from are busy talking about ww3 instead.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Nobody: 8:16am On Jan 06, 2020
Where was the congress when they invaded iraq, libya and syria ehn

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Confirmedzombie: 8:17am On Jan 06, 2020
Igbos will hail Trump to destruction. I have noticed only Igbos are backing Trump.

We all know that anybody supported by Igbos is destined to fail or fall.

Trump must seek a way to make peace with Iran and stop all this rubbish tweets.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Oriolajuwon(m): 8:17am On Jan 06, 2020
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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by AuwalYusuf812(m): 8:17am On Jan 06, 2020
This old man is Stubborn & he is asking for war at all cost.

But Iran Government are very patient sha.
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by ernecy(m): 8:17am On Jan 06, 2020
Trump to dey talk Sha!

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Nobody: 8:18am On Jan 06, 2020
DMerciful:
Difference between US Congress and Nigeria Rubber Stamp National Assembly!

You're like the proverbial parent that compares their kids to every other kid they admire.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by crownwealth: 8:19am On Jan 06, 2020
Ewedegubbler:
The democrats house of leaks is furious and angry that Trump didn't inform them so that they will leak it to CNN and their MURIC allies.. Sorry guys. POTUS will do the right thing to protect the USA from terrorists and demorats


No mind the idiots!

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by AuwalYusuf812(m): 8:20am On Jan 06, 2020
Confirmedzombie:
Igbos will hail Trump to destruction. I have noticed only Igbos are backing Trump.

We all know that anybody supported by Igbos is destined to fail or fall.

Trump must seek a way to make peace with Iran and stop all this rubbish tweets.
if you are Iran will you Accept the peace After killing my talisman.



No peace ooh until I cost them some pain two then we can seek for peace
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by mjabdulk: 8:21am On Jan 06, 2020
war is not the best solution to living in peace. this trump action is like a cover up to his impeachment, now house has been diverted from impeachment to unconstitutional war

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Neoteny(m): 8:21am On Jan 06, 2020
Humphrizy:
For Twitter to ban Donald is like telling River Niger to stop flowing because there is little or less power in Nigeria.

Jack knows what he do gain just from Donald Trump's Retweets.

Thought US been wan impeach Trump? undecided

He's been impeached already

You live under a rock?

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by West2019(m): 8:21am On Jan 06, 2020
babyfaceafrica:
Trump talks anyhow like he has no respect
and late general solemnani kill innocent people anyhow like they are not human being , kill anyhiw and talk anyhow which one do u prefer

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by leksite120(m): 8:21am On Jan 06, 2020
Where were they when they attacked other countries
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by wizzie001(m): 8:22am On Jan 06, 2020
I'm outrightly against any pastor or person that is calling for prayer against this war, if it is the will of God, so be it..... If it will take war to sanitize this world full of heartless rulers & injustice,why not? We can't keep on doing same old thing and be expecting a different result, that's impossible!

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by ScotMisile: 8:22am On Jan 06, 2020
hisexcellency34:
Iran threatening US is like Biafra or IPOB threatening Nigeria. We all know the aftermath

I don't think IRAN can hold The United States Army stranded on the warfront for 3 years.

So, your comparison Lacks merit and logic.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by macolino(m): 8:22am On Jan 06, 2020
As long as the war no reach African, wetin concern me sef..With my Gotv I will be watching it from my sitting room..
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Nobody: 8:23am On Jan 06, 2020
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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Sirseedorf(m): 8:23am On Jan 06, 2020
Trump just want to do experiments on Iran head
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by TOPCRUISE(m): 8:24am On Jan 06, 2020
hisexcellency34:
Iran threatening US is like Biafra or IPOB threatening Nigeria. We all know the aftermath
US is the one threatening Iran and not Iran threatening the US

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by yrex01(m): 8:25am On Jan 06, 2020
West2019:
and late general solemnani kill innocent people anyhow like they are not human being , kill anyhiw and talk anyhow which one do u prefer
since when Isis and d other terrorist he wiped out related to you coz I don't know when u guys started v sympathy for terrorist. Y'all doing this coz iran z a Muslim country. Hypocrits
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by CyberWolf: 8:28am On Jan 06, 2020
So if Iran strikes US or it’s allies, the President should go and take permission from congress first before retaliating? Congress where Democrats (American version of Nigerian APC) will play politics with it.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Nobody: 8:28am On Jan 06, 2020
M waiting for those foolish terrorist Iran. Trump will teach hem A,B,C soon. SAY NO TO TERRORISTS!!
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by jaafree: 8:28am On Jan 06, 2020
the American congress knew that trump is a lunatic that was carried away by power who will some day throw them into war and endanger the American innocent lives, that's part of the reasons why the impeachment brouhaha was raised in the first place. Mr Trump feels America are the super power therefore it will be a flawless against any minor country that engage them into war. they want to make him understand that no victor in any war, and he should listen.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by careytommy37(m): 8:28am On Jan 06, 2020
*TRUMP KILLS IRAN’S MOST OVERRATED WARRIOR*
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Suleimani pushed his country to build an empire, but drove it into the ground instead.
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By Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, New York Times (January 03, 2020)
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One day they may name a street after President Trump in Tehran. Why? Because Trump just ordered the assassination of possibly the dumbest man in Iran and the most overrated strategist in the Middle East: Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.
Think of the miscalculations this guy made. In 2015, the United States and the major European powers agreed to lift virtually all their sanctions on Iran, many dating back to 1979, in return for Iran halting its nuclear weapons program for a mere 15 years, but still maintaining the right to have a peaceful nuclear program. It was a great deal for Iran. Its economy grew by over 12 percent the next year. And what did Suleimani do with that windfall?

He and Iran’s supreme leader launched an aggressive regional imperial project that made Iran and its proxies the de facto controlling power in Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Sana. This freaked out U.S. allies in the Sunni Arab world and Israel — and they pressed the Trump administration to respond. Trump himself was eager to tear up any treaty forged by President Obama, so he exited the nuclear deal and imposed oil sanctions on Iran that have now shrunk the Iranian economy by almost 10 percent and sent unemployment over 16 percent.

All that for the pleasure of saying that Tehran can call the shots in Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Sana. What exactly was second prize?

With the Tehran regime severely deprived of funds, the ayatollahs had to raise gasoline prices at home, triggering massive domestic protests. That required a harsh crackdown by Iran’s clerics against their own people that left thousands jailed and killed, further weakening the legitimacy of the regime.
Then Mr. “Military Genius” Suleimani decided that, having propped up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and helping to kill 500,000 Syrians in the process, he would overreach again and try to put direct pressure on Israel. He would do this by trying to transfer precision-guided rockets from Iran to Iranian proxy forces in Lebanon and Syria.

Alas, Suleimani discovered that fighting Israel — specifically, its combined air force, special forces, intelligence and cyber — is not like fighting the Nusra front or the Islamic State. The Israelis hit back hard, sending a whole bunch of Iranians home from Syria in caskets and hammering their proxies as far away as Western Iraq.
Indeed, Israeli intelligence had so penetrated Suleimani’s Quds Force and its proxies that Suleimani would land a plane with precision munitions in Syria at 5 p.m., and the Israeli air force would blow it up by 5:30 p.m. Suleimani’s men were like fish in a barrel. If Iran had a free press and a real parliament, he would have been fired for colossal mismanagement.

But it gets better, or actually worse, for Suleimani. Many of his obituaries say that he led the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq, in tacit alliance with America. Well, that’s true. But what they omit is that Suleimani’s, and Iran’s, overreaching in Iraq helped to produce the Islamic State in the first place.

It was Suleimani and his Quds Force pals who pushed Iraq’s Shiite prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to push Sunnis out of the Iraqi government and army, stop paying salaries to Sunni soldiers, kill and arrest large numbers of peaceful Sunni protesters and generally turn Iraq into a Shiite-dominated sectarian state. The Islamic State was the counterreaction.

Finally, it was Suleimani’s project of making Iran the imperial power in the Middle East that turned Iran into the most hated power in the Middle East for many of the young, rising pro-democracy forces — both Sunnis and Shiites — in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

As the Iranian-American scholar Ray Takeyh pointed out in a wise essay in Politico, in recent years “Soleimani began expanding Iran’s imperial frontiers. For the first time in its history, Iran became a true regional power, stretching its influence from the banks of the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Soleimani understood that Persians would not be willing to die in distant battlefields for the sake of Arabs, so he focused on recruiting Arabs and Afghans as an auxiliary force. He often boasted that he could create a militia in little time and deploy it against Iran’s various enemies.”

It was precisely those Suleimani proxies — Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen — that created pro-Iranian Shiite states-within-states in all of these countries. And it was precisely these states-within-states that helped to prevent any of these countries from cohering, fostered massive corruption and kept these countries from developing infrastructure — schools, roads, electricity.
And therefore it was Suleimani and his proxies — his “kingmakers” in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq — who increasingly came to be seen, and hated, as imperial powers in the region, even more so than Trump’s America. This triggered popular, authentic, bottom-up democracy movements in Lebanon and Iraq that involved Sunnis and Shiites locking arms together to demand noncorrupt, nonsectarian democratic governance.

On Nov. 27, Iraqi Shiites — yes, Iraqi Shiites — burned down the Iranian consulate in Najaf, Iraq, removing the Iranian flag from the building and putting an Iraqi flag in its place. That was after Iraqi Shiites, in September 2018, set the Iranian consulate in Basra ablaze, shouting condemnations of Iran’s interference in Iraqi politics.
The whole “protest” against the United States Embassy compound in Baghdad last week was almost certainly a Suleimani-staged operation to make it look as if Iraqis wanted America out when in fact it was the other way around. The protesters were paid pro-Iranian militiamen. No one in Baghdad was fooled by this.

In a way, it’s what got Suleimani killed. He so wanted to cover his failures in Iraq he decided to start provoking the Americans there by shelling their forces, hoping they would overreact, kill Iraqis and turn them against the United States. Trump, rather than taking the bait, killed Suleimani instead.

I have no idea whether this was wise or what will be the long-term implications. But here are two things I do know about the Middle East.
First, often in the Middle East the opposite of “bad” is not “good.” The opposite of bad often turns out to be “disorder.” Just because you take out a really bad actor like Suleimani doesn’t mean a good actor, or a good change in policy, comes in his wake. Suleimani is part of a system called the Islamic Revolution in Iran. That revolution has managed to use oil money and violence to stay in power since 1979 — and that is Iran’s tragedy, a tragedy that the death of one Iranian general will not change.
Today’s Iran is the heir to a great civilization and the home of an enormously talented people and significant culture. Wherever Iranians go in the world today, they thrive as scientists, doctors, artists, writers and filmmakers — except in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose most famous exports are suicide bombing, cyberterrorism and proxy militia leaders. The very fact that Suleimani was probably the most famous Iranian in the region speaks to the utter emptiness of this regime, and how it has wasted the lives of two generations of Iranians by looking for dignity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

The other thing I know is that in the Middle East all important politics happens the morning after the morning after.
Yes, in the coming days there will be noisy protests in Iran, the burning of American flags and much crying for the “martyr.” The morning after the morning after? There will be a thousand quiet conversations inside Iran that won’t get reported. They will be about the travesty that is their own government and how it has squandered so much of Iran’s wealth and talent on an imperial project that has made Iran hated in the Middle East.
And yes, the morning after, America’s Sunni Arab allies will quietly celebrate Suleimani’s death, but we must never forget that it is the dysfunction of many of the Sunni Arab regimes — their lack of freedom, modern education and women’s empowerment — that made them so weak that Iran was able to take them over from the inside with its proxies.
I write these lines while flying over New Zealand, where the smoke from forest fires 2,500 miles away over eastern Australia can be seen and felt. Mother Nature doesn’t know Suleimani’s name, but everyone in the Arab world is going to know her name. Because the Middle East, particularly Iran, is becoming an environmental disaster area — running out of water, with rising desertification and overpopulation. If governments there don’t stop fighting and come together to build resilience against climate change — rather than celebrating self-promoting military frauds who conquer failed states and make them fail even more — they’re all doomed.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by autonomous22: 8:28am On Jan 06, 2020
hisexcellency34:
Iran threatening US is like Biafra or IPOB threatening Nigeria. We all know the aftermath


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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by olisaEze(m): 8:29am On Jan 06, 2020
I like Trump, but this strike on another country’s serving military general was ill advised no matter the reason given. If he had to be taken out, it could have been done with plausible deniability through any of the US black ops divisions.

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Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by West2019(m): 8:29am On Jan 06, 2020
[quote author=yrex01 post=85544124]since when Isis and d other terrorist he wiped out related to you coz I don't know when u guys started v sympathy for terrorist. Y'all doing this coz iran z a Muslim country. Hypocrits [/quote all the Muslim country in the world are terrorists its a about hypocrisy , we thank God for giving president Trump the wisdom to kill this territories man general ]
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by Mac2016(m): 8:30am On Jan 06, 2020
Mr Trump. There is nothing like good war. Just sheer waste of resources both financial and human
Re: Iran Attack: U.S Foreign Affairs House Committee Cautions Donald Trump by 27Pushing30: 8:30am On Jan 06, 2020
SirToby:
Donald Trump tweeted about attacking Iran if they dare attack U.S. It has generated mixed feelings among Americans, some has even ordered twitter to ban him for using the Media to call for war.
However, The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has replied Donald Trump.

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It's these USELESS democrats under Obama that alliowed Russia annex a Ukrainian territory (CRIMEA) and increase their military influence.

Under these useless DEMs USA could not tackle China.

Abeg they should sit down. SABOTEURS

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