U.S. Embassy Bagdhad is under attack

[BP]

Have you been around any Ukrainians? Or Russians or anyother Eastern Europeans for that matter? Most of them could give a fuck about a bunch of missiles being fired around them or anything else that would scare the shit out of a typical American.

Only whores, strippers and mechanics. Sometimes all at the same time.

[svauto-erotic855]

Geraldo just made a good point, why the hell did the traffic controllers and the pilot decide to take off immediately following a missile strike? We'll ground stop an entire airport if there is a security breach at a check point, those idiots were operating like normal with SAM sites on both sides on high alert and probably even while ballistic missiles were still in the air.

Have you been around any Ukrainians? Or Russians or anyother Eastern Europeans for that matter? Most of them could give a fuck about a bunch of missiles being fired around them or anything else that would scare the shit out of a typical American.

[BP]

Geraldo just made a good point, why the hell did the traffic controllers and the pilot decide to take off immediately following a missile strike? We'll ground stop an entire airport if there is a security breach at a check point, those idiots were operating like normal with SAM sites on both sides on high alert and probably even while ballistic missiles were still in the air.

[Captain Crawfish]

how prophetic

I have good mentors!

[Captain Crawfish]

Critical thinking will bring out the truth. Let this play out. How many do we have dead so far? A contractor a general and 176 in a 737. And the finger pointing begins!!!

[Big A]

I could see this being the nail in Trump’s coffin. The narrative will be that had he not ordered the drone strike, Iran would not have been retaliating.

This Iran thing was already looking bad for Trump.

Anyone not suffering from TDS knows better, but that's definitely already a common sentiment.

https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/st...141085697?s=20

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...684343298?s=20

[krazy kris]

I could see this being the nail in Trump’s coffin. The narrative will be that had he not ordered the drone strike, Iran would not have been retaliating.

This Iran thing was already looking bad for Trump.

The plane was shot down shortly after the missiles were fired at the base and the Iranians were expecting quick retaliation. I don't know much about those missiles. Could they have an areial proximity sensor that automatically went off and took out the plane?

[BP]

We did not shoot it down in error. We shot it down on purpose but we mistook the plane for an attacking airplane. Earlier in the day the Iranians had fired on a US helicopter from a patrol boat I believe. The jetliner that got shot down deliberately departed regular civilian flight paths and then approached the u.s. ship on what appeared to be an attack run. It is suspected that the pilots were doing so under orders from the government in an attempt to be intimidating. The ship only fired after repeated attempts to contact the pilots failed.

If you believe the official story one of our patrol helicopters was attacked so the cruiser it was based from was engaging Iranian flagged vessels and their Aegis system detected a jet diving at high speed right at them that originated from a field where F-14s were based.

That field was also a commercial airport. The plane was climbing, the pilots were communicating in English and had their transponder on. So the ship was actively shooting at Iranian targets and was in Omani water when their Aegis system malfunctioned and didn't correctly identify the plane or it's vector. They made a judgement call under fire and decided to take the jet down.

[bcoop]

I could see this being the nail in Trump’s coffin. The narrative will be that had he not ordered the drone strike, Iran would not have been retaliating.

This Iran thing was already looking bad for Trump.

[The King]

We did not shoot it down in error. We shot it down on purpose but we mistook the plane for an attacking airplane. Earlier in the day the Iranians had fired on a US helicopter from a patrol boat I believe. The jetliner that got shot down deliberately departed regular civilian flight paths and then approached the u.s. ship on what appeared to be an attack run. It is suspected that the pilots were doing so under orders from the government in an attempt to be intimidating. The ship only fired after repeated attempts to contact the pilots failed.

"mistook" = error

Since this was pre-9/11 civilian airliners were not yet generally considered to be potential weapons.

[Ruffdaddy]

This sort of thing unfortunately can happen, the U.S. shot down an Iranian airliner in error during the late 1980s.

That's exactly what my $131.8MM comment was referencing.

I wonder if Iran will make postage stamps this time.

We did not shoot it down in error. We shot it down on purpose but we mistook the plane for an attacking airplane. Earlier in the day the Iranians had fired on a US helicopter from a patrol boat I believe. The jetliner that got shot down deliberately departed regular civilian flight paths and then approached the u.s. ship on what appeared to be an attack run. It is suspected that the pilots were doing so under orders from the government in an attempt to be intimidating. The ship only fired after repeated attempts to contact the pilots failed.

You dont think Iran shot down what they thought was a threat?

This situation is extremely similar.

[svauto-erotic855]

This sort of thing unfortunately can happen, the U.S. shot down an Iranian airliner in error during the late 1980s.

We did not shoot it down in error. We shot it down on purpose but we mistook the plane for an attacking airplane. Earlier in the day the Iranians had fired on a US helicopter from a patrol boat I believe. The jetliner that got shot down deliberately departed regular civilian flight paths and then approached the u.s. ship on what appeared to be an attack run. It is suspected that the pilots were doing so under orders from the government in an attempt to be intimidating. The ship only fired after repeated attempts to contact the pilots failed.

[The King]

This sort of thing unfortunately can happen, the U.S. shot down an Iranian airliner in error during the late 1980s.

[Jimbo]

https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-mistake-sources-1481313

The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq.

The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, told Newsweek.

[bubbaearl]

there are enough satellites watching iran that they can plainly see the plane and missile that took it down . it's ukraine and canada's problem . no americans on it . but give it a day or so . iran is pissed it killed no americans so they will try again .