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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump 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 Qatarhost to the largest US military base in the regionhas 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/
(edited to add more information)
Fiendish Thingy
(15,585 posts)Did you mean Iraq?
Doh!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Exactly as I found it
karynnj
(59,501 posts)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.
doc03
(35,325 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The troops are in Qatar. The implications are based on Iran.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)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
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)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)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)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)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)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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