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Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 03:40 PM May 2020

Trump Abandons US Troops In Iran

Commander in Chief? Not this orange cretin. This just mirrors the stochastic genocide of the Beast, Captain 666, also known as Sicksicksick.

I, for one, support our troops in all situation. I also have a concern for the PEOPLE of Iran, who, last time I checked are still feeling human beings who sufferer, despite the kind of government they have. Well, look at the one we have right now.

This MalAdminstration is an insult to everything and our veterans, (what they fought for) and troops are not a priority to them.

The Trump administration refuses to acknowledge a coronavirus outbreak in Iran near the largest US military base. John Iadarola and Ken Klippenstein break it down on The Damage Report.

The document, dated April 3, says that Qatar—host to the largest US military base in the region—”has the highest number of COVID-19 cases, with over 800 confirmed.” While the briefing does not make clear whether that figure includes US military personnel, the number is doubtless far higher today. The Pentagon did not respond to a query by The Nation asking how many US military personnel in Qatar have tested positive for the virus.

The majority of these cases, the brief says, derive from Iran, which is located across the Persian Gulf from Qatar. The document warns that US sanctions have “left Iran bereft of financial resources to mount an effective public health response” to the pandemic and “unable to order ventilators from abroad, which are crucial for treatment.”"


Edited to add a link to the article referred to in the description of the video on YouTube due to a misunderstanding as to how the links work or how to do that.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-coronavirus-sanctions/



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Trump Abandons US Troops In Iran (Original Post) Newest Reality May 2020 OP
What US troops in Iran? Fiendish Thingy May 2020 #1
Just posting it... Newest Reality May 2020 #3
It is poorly written. Later it is clear the US base is in Qatar. karynnj May 2020 #11
We have Troops in Iran? doc03 May 2020 #2
The title they gave it is easy to misinterpret. Newest Reality May 2020 #4
Hey Mr. Reality, please correct your thread title to match Reality. Fake title! . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #5
It's not my title. Newest Reality May 2020 #6
GD is not LBN. You can change the title. Or are you keeping it as clickbait? It is not REALITY, duh. Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #7
Wow! Newest Reality May 2020 #9
If it WERE NOT your title, you would have included a link. NO LINK, ergo it is YOUR title. . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #8
Maybe you have Newest Reality May 2020 #10
Oh, there's a video. They are blank to me they have so many trackers. Sorry bout that. Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #12
Oh, well, then... Newest Reality May 2020 #13
Thanks Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #14
It's clear to me that we should start calling tRUMP what he really is: "The Commander of Grief". abqtommy May 2020 #15

karynnj

(59,501 posts)
11. It is poorly written. Later it is clear the US base is in Qatar.
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:21 PM
May 2020

Qatar is near Iran, which had a large outbreak. That base is the largest US base in the Middle East. The article speaks of many at the base having COVID.

It might be better to look for a better source, that is likely more coherent.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. The title they gave it is easy to misinterpret.
Sun May 3, 2020, 03:48 PM
May 2020

The troops are in Qatar. The implications are based on Iran.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
6. It's not my title.
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:10 PM
May 2020

To change it would not be correct and I think it depends on how you read or interpret it. I didn't make it up and if you go to the link of the video, you will see that.

You can post a comment about that there, if you like

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
9. Wow!
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:15 PM
May 2020

I admire your ability to assume things and read your current state into it.

Amazing. I already responded about that. What would I get out of clickbaiting? Valuable prizes? Honor and fame?

I don't think you understand the term. Be reasonable. The content of the text and the video explains it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,999 posts)
8. If it WERE NOT your title, you would have included a link. NO LINK, ergo it is YOUR title. . nt
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:14 PM
May 2020

Not even an attribution.

No credit to the actual writer of your article.

You can do much better, Mr. Reality. Get real.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
10. Maybe you have
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:17 PM
May 2020

Maybe you have something else you are referring to? Go to the YouTube page it is on. It is very simple and maybe you don't know how that works. Watch the video and click the YOUTUBE at the bottom and it will open.

Or, are you trolling?

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,999 posts)
12. Oh, there's a video. They are blank to me they have so many trackers. Sorry bout that.
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:32 PM
May 2020

There was no indication what you wrote vs what was in the article when I read your OP, somewhere in the stream of edits.

Whatever, there seems to have been some kind of misunderstanding so I will take it on myself for not having seen the video or imputed that one might be present.

But I still think it is a bad mistake to slavishly copy a false title when not in LBN.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
13. Oh, well, then...
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:40 PM
May 2020

That explains it.

The link to the article is in the OP now. Perhaps it is better to not comment on impulse like that if you have not seen the content first?

I am faithfully presenting the material as the authors intended it and don't at all consider it being slavish because I have no agenda concerning it. Again, your use of terms seems to be rather inaccurate since you imply that I am beholden to the owners of the channel and doing their bidding somehow. That doesn't really make sense to me.

Now, yielding to your demands or suggestions is another matter.

If the title is offensive or seems incorrect to you, I encourage you to take that up with the creators of the channel itself in their comments section and that way, your complaints will have some relevance and impact.
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