Pompeo urged Trump to kill Iran general....because Rapture

[JuliefromOhio]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the main force that pushed Trump into assassinating Iranian Major General Soleimani. Pompeo had a fixation with a bible passage about Queen Esther protecting Israel from Iran. Pompeo’s extreme hostility towards Iran is motivated by his extreme religious beliefs.

In November, Mr. Pompeo said that the Bible “informs everything I do.”

Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself.

https://buzzflash.com/articles/pomp...hed-trump-to-strike-iranian-general-soleimani

Are you speechless yet?

 

[georgephillip]

So far I haven't heard any MSM accounts of this incident report on Soleimani's official status with the Iraq government:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/07/the-three-victories-that-sealed-soleimanis-fate/

"Prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi told Iraqi parliament on Sunday that Soleimani came to Iraq last week to respond to a diplomatic note from Saudi Arabia.

"While bitter enemies, the Saudi monarchy and the Islamic Republic, were privately negotiating steps to pacify the region, which has been roiled by anti-Iranian and anti-American demonstrations.

"'I was supposed to meet Soleimani in the morning the day he was killed,' Mahdi said, according to news reports. 'He came to deliver me a message from Iran responding to the message we delivered from Saudi to Iran.'"

 

[georgephillip]

Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself.

"Did Mike Pompeo declare, 'We will continue to fight these battles. It is a never-ending struggle ... until the Rapture.'"
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pompeo-fight-battles-rapture/

Pompeo is not your usual evangelical loon...

"In 1986, Pompeo finished first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management.[9][13][14]..."

"In 1994, Pompeo received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as one of 78 editors of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,[19][20] and on the 81-member board of editors[21] of the Harvard Law Review.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo#Education_and_early_career

"After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington."

 

[RickWA]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the main force that pushed Trump into assassinating Iranian Major General Soleimani. Pompeo had a fixation with a bible passage about Queen Esther protecting Israel from Iran. Pompeo’s extreme hostility towards Iran is motivated by his extreme religious beliefs.

In November, Mr. Pompeo said that the Bible “informs everything I do.”

Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself.

https://buzzflash.com/articles/pomp...hed-trump-to-strike-iranian-general-soleimani

Are you speechless yet?

Pompeo is BRILLIANT - singularly the BEST hire Trump has made in his time as POTUS (granted, that is not saying much).

Edited

 

[JuliefromOhio]

"Did Mike Pompeo declare, 'We will continue to fight these battles. It is a never-ending struggle ... until the Rapture.'"
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pompeo-fight-battles-rapture/

Pompeo is not your usual evangelical loon...

"In 1986, Pompeo finished first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management.[9][13][14]..."

"In 1994, Pompeo received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as one of 78 editors of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,[19][20] and on the 81-member board of editors[21] of the Harvard Law Review.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo#Education_and_early_career

"After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington."

Yes, even Snopes has Pompeo's nutty quote. I really don't understand these rightwing Evangelicals. They lie, cheat and steal, yet somehow think they will be raptured up into heaven.

 

[BobbyT]

Yes, even Snopes has Pompeo's nutty quote. I really don't understand these rightwing Evangelicals. They lie, cheat and steal, yet somehow think they will be raptured up into heaven.

They think God is a one issue rapturist: how you vote on abortion is all that counts.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

They think God is a one issue rapturist: how you vote on abortion is all that counts.

That and the born again thing. No good deeds necessary and bad deeds ignored.

 

[Nutty Cortez]

So far I haven't heard any MSM accounts of this incident report on Soleimani's official status with the Iraq government:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/07/the-three-victories-that-sealed-soleimanis-fate/

"Prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi told Iraqi parliament on Sunday that Soleimani came to Iraq last week to respond to a diplomatic note from Saudi Arabia.

"While bitter enemies, the Saudi monarchy and the Islamic Republic, were privately negotiating steps to pacify the region, which has been roiled by anti-Iranian and anti-American demonstrations.

"'I was supposed to meet Soleimani in the morning the day he was killed,' Mahdi said, according to news reports. 'He came to deliver me a message from Iran responding to the message we delivered from Saudi to Iran.'"

Uh this is called an 'exaggeration'

maybe look the word up?

if he said 'until the cows came home' would that make you feel better? aw

 

[georgephillip]

Yes, even Snopes has Pompeo's nutty quote. I really don't understand these rightwing Evangelicals. They lie, cheat and steal, yet somehow think they will be raptured up into heaven.

Pompeo is even more dangerous, imho, because he graduated first in his class at West Point before getting a JD from Harvard Law. While he may or may not believe in fundamental Christianity, but there's little doubt about his loyalty to corporate America,specifically Koch Industries.

"Before becoming a US congressman in 2010, Mike Pompeo had patrolled the Iron Curtain, and started and sold two Kansas businesses, but never held office.

"When he ran, Pompeo earned the nickname the 'Congressman from Koch' because of the outsized donations made to his 2010 campaign by the industrialist Koch brothers, whose energy conglomerate is headquartered in Pompeo’s Wichita, Kansas district.

"Koch Industries donated just $80,000 directly to Pompeo—but that made them the largest contributor to his campaign in 2010.

"It also helped him out-raise his Democratic challenger by almost 20%. Pompeo won the race with 58% of the vote."

https://qz.com/1227882/secretary-of...es-his-political-career-to-the-koch-brothers/

 

[JuliefromOhio]

Pompeo is even more dangerous, imho, because he graduated first in his class at West Point before getting a JD from Harvard Law. While he may or may not believe in fundamental Christianity, but there's little doubt about his loyalty to corporate America,specifically Koch Industries.

"Before becoming a US congressman in 2010, Mike Pompeo had patrolled the Iron Curtain, and started and sold two Kansas businesses, but never held office.

"When he ran, Pompeo earned the nickname the 'Congressman from Koch' because of the outsized donations made to his 2010 campaign by the industrialist Koch brothers, whose energy conglomerate is headquartered in Pompeo’s Wichita, Kansas district.

"Koch Industries donated just $80,000 directly to Pompeo—but that made them the largest contributor to his campaign in 2010.

"It also helped him out-raise his Democratic challenger by almost 20%. Pompeo won the race with 58% of the vote."

https://qz.com/1227882/secretary-of...es-his-political-career-to-the-koch-brothers/

I'll put him down as a warmonger who wants to jump start Armaggedon. He was the main character who pushed Trump to take out the Iranian general. There's a reason rightwing Christians are so dedicated to Israel. It's all about the end times.

 

[georgephillip]

Uh this is called an 'exaggeration'

maybe look the word up?

if he said 'until the cows came home' would that make you feel better? aw

What did Dubya know that you don't?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/07/the-three-victories-that-sealed-soleimanis-fate/

"If you study the military record of the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani, you’ll see both why U.S military and political leaders feared him, yet did not wish him dead.

"The embodiment of America’s stance was President George W. Bush.

"In January 2008, Bush was informed he had a real-time opportunity to kill Soleimani as he attended a meeting in Syria...."

"Bush was not soft on terrorism or Iran.

"He knew that upwards of 600 U.S. soldiers had been killed by Iraqi militias sponsored by Soleimani.

"But the 43rd president also had bruising experience with geopolitical reality: the fiasco of his Iraq invasion.

"He knew better than anyone that, just as eliminating Saddam Hussein unleashed a whirlwind of chaos and terrorism that the United States could not control, so 'taking out' Soleimani might have unforeseen bloody consequences for U.S. interests."

 

[JuliefromOhio]

What did Dubya know that you don't?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/07/the-three-victories-that-sealed-soleimanis-fate/

"If you study the military record of the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani, you’ll see both why U.S military and political leaders feared him, yet did not wish him dead.

"The embodiment of America’s stance was President George W. Bush.

"In January 2008, Bush was informed he had a real-time opportunity to kill Soleimani as he attended a meeting in Syria...."

"Bush was not soft on terrorism or Iran.

"He knew that upwards of 600 U.S. soldiers had been killed by Iraqi militias sponsored by Soleimani.

"But the 43rd president also had bruising experience with geopolitical reality: the fiasco of his Iraq invasion.

"He knew better than anyone that, just as eliminating Saddam Hussein unleashed a whirlwind of chaos and terrorism that the United States could not control, so 'taking out' Soleimani might have unforeseen bloody consequences for U.S. interests."

Both Bush and Obama could see beyond their noses regarding the Middle East.
Trump can't.
Trump can be counted on to do things that could be harmful, on purpose. And that's just what he did. That's his cruel and inhumane streak.

 

[Dawg]

How long did the DNC demand libs mourn the dead terrorist?

 

[georgephillip]

Both Bush and Obama could see beyond their noses regarding the Middle East.
Trump can't.
Trump can be counted on to do things that could be harmful, on purpose. And that's just what he did. That's his cruel and inhumane streak.

I don't believe any POTUS can afford to reveal why the US is in the Middle East; here's one radical interpretation:

"This is basically a resource grab.

"Suleimani was in the same position as Chile’s Allende, Libya’s Qaddafi, Iraq’s Saddam.

"The motto is that of Stalin: 'No person, no problem...'"

"He (Suleimani) was the leader of the fight against ISIS, especially in Syria.

"US policy was to continue using ISIS to permanently destabilize Syria and Iraq so as to prevent a Shi’ite crescent reaching from Iran to Lebanon – which incidentally would serve as part of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

"So it killed Suleimani to prevent the peace negotiation.

"He was killed because he had been invited by Iraq’s government to help mediate a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

"That was what the United States feared most of all, because it effectively would prevent its control of the region and Trump’s drive to seize Iraqi and Syrian oil."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/0...in-the-near-east-an-interview-with-the-saker/

 

[Colorforms]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the main force that pushed Trump into assassinating Iranian Major General Soleimani. Pompeo had a fixation with a bible passage about Queen Esther protecting Israel from Iran. Pompeo’s extreme hostility towards Iran is motivated by his extreme religious beliefs.

In November, Mr. Pompeo said that the Bible “informs everything I do.”

Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself.

https://buzzflash.com/articles/pomp...hed-trump-to-strike-iranian-general-soleimani

Are you speechless yet?

I am indeed speechless. How anyone could fall for such obvious BS is awe inspiring.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

I don't believe any POTUS can afford to reveal why the US is in the Middle East; here's one radical interpretation:

"This is basically a resource grab.

"Suleimani was in the same position as Chile’s Allende, Libya’s Qaddafi, Iraq’s Saddam.

"The motto is that of Stalin: 'No person, no problem...'"

"He (Suleimani) was the leader of the fight against ISIS, especially in Syria.

"US policy was to continue using ISIS to permanently destabilize Syria and Iraq so as to prevent a Shi’ite crescent reaching from Iran to Lebanon – which incidentally would serve as part of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

"So it killed Suleimani to prevent the peace negotiation.

"He was killed because he had been invited by Iraq’s government to help mediate a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

"That was what the United States feared most of all, because it effectively would prevent its control of the region and Trump’s drive to seize Iraqi and Syrian oil."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/0...in-the-near-east-an-interview-with-the-saker/

I think Trump is simply helping Russia gain influence over the Middle East. It's that agreement he and Putin have.

 

[JackDallas]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the main force that pushed Trump into assassinating Iranian Major General Soleimani. Pompeo had a fixation with a bible passage about Queen Esther protecting Israel from Iran. Pompeo’s extreme hostility towards Iran is motivated by his extreme religious beliefs.

In November, Mr. Pompeo said that the Bible “informs everything I do.”

Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself.

https://buzzflash.com/articles/pomp...hed-trump-to-strike-iranian-general-soleimani

Are you speechless yet?

What is it you find extreme about Christianity, Julie? Could it possibly be Christians' opposition to murdering babies, which you support?

 

[georgephillip]

I think Trump is simply helping Russia gain influence over the Middle East. It's that agreement he and Putin have.

I believe that is one answer to a very complex question.

Russians began cultivating Donald Trump long before he became POTUS, and I have little doubt they have some very embarrassing information on him and his family.

However, the Trump Presidency is a tiny cog in a much bigger game, imho, that has been in play since this country went off the gold standard in 1971:

https://michael-hudson.com/2020/01/america-escalates-its-democratic-oil-war-in-the-near-east/

"The balance of payments dimension

"The major deficit in the U.S. balance of payments has long been military spending abroad.

"The entire payments deficit, beginning with the Korean War in 1950-51 and extending through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, was responsible for forcing the dollar off gold in 1971.

"The problem facing America’s military strategists was how to continue supporting the 800 U.S. military bases around the world and allied troop support without losing America’s financial leverage.

The solution turned out to be to replace gold with U.S. Treasury securities (IOUs) as the basis of foreign central bank reserves."

 

[JuliefromOhio]

I believe that is one answer to a very complex question.

Russians began cultivating Donald Trump long before he became POTUS, and I have little doubt they have some very embarrassing information on him and his family.

However, the Trump Presidency is a tiny cog in a much bigger game, imho, that has been in play since this country went off the gold standard in 1971:

https://michael-hudson.com/2020/01/america-escalates-its-democratic-oil-war-in-the-near-east/

"The balance of payments dimension

"The major deficit in the U.S. balance of payments has long been military spending abroad.

"The entire payments deficit, beginning with the Korean War in 1950-51 and extending through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, was responsible for forcing the dollar off gold in 1971.

"The problem facing America’s military strategists was how to continue supporting the 800 U.S. military bases around the world and allied troop support without losing America’s financial leverage.

The solution turned out to be to replace gold with U.S. Treasury securities (IOUs) as the basis of foreign central bank reserves."

That's the more sophisticated explanation of war hawks and what Pres Ike warned us about, but here I'm talking about the simpleton, the mentally unstable Trump. All of Trump's actions end up benefitting Putin. Trump alienating the EU and NATO? Putin's wet dream. Trump sowing discord and mistrust within the USA and threatening western democracies? Putin's plan all along. As Speaker Pelosi said to Trump...."all roads with you lead to Putin."

 

[Addy]

Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself.

https://buzzflash.com/articles/pomp...hed-trump-to-strike-iranian-general-soleimani

Are you speechless yet?

It could explain a lot of what we have seen happening and why the republicans believe Trump is the chosen one. Republicans, some on PJ, I have seen posting of wishing for the rapture to hurry up and take place
Interesting read and explanation of their beliefs on the link...
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Trump Will Start the End of the World, Claim Evangelicals Who Support Him
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Meanwhile, Young says that Trump's unlikely election victory also creates the impression that Trump's victory was ordained by God.

"For his evangelical supporters, there's a sense that Trump's unlikely election to the presidency proves that he has been chosen by God," Young told Newsweek. "He shouldn't have won the election, so the thinking goes, so the fact that he did—and that victory came only via the Electoral College, no less—just demonstrates that only God could make it happen."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-will-bring-about-end-worldevangelicals-end-times-779643