Dumb thought but the shooting down of that plane really makes no sense at all. Planes come and go from that airport all the time and yet for some odd reason someone gets an itchy trigger finger and accidentally shoots a plane down? I’m not buying it... however, if you take a step back and look at the weak retaliation last night by Iran and their firing ballistic missiles into our bases, it might. Consider the scenario, Iran fires a few dozen missiles into the bases and goads the mad man DJT into responding with air strikes. Surprise surprise a commercial airliner gets downed in the confusion and everyone gets to blame their deaths on Trump and his recklessness. It’s a huge win for Iran

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Posted by cypresstiger

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Member since Aug 2008

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Posted on 1/8/20 at 9:02 pm to Blizzard of Chizz

Notice the Brits, Canadians, Germans, etc are quiet about the whole thing. Even Trump didn’t mention it in his statement. And the Iranian foreign minister talking about not escalating anymore.

All these things points to a nervous Iranian air defense soldier who panicked and fired on the jet. Plus, Iran almost immediately said they didn’t want any help with the investigation.

So they know what happened, confessed to the Euros, and everyone stays quiet.

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Posted by Scruffy

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Posted on 1/8/20 at 9:10 pm to Blizzard of Chizz

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Surprise surprise a commercial airliner gets downed in the confusion and everyone gets to blame their deaths on Trump and his recklessness.

But that isn’t happening.

DJT didn’t respond with air strikes.

Not even Iran is blaming the US for the downing of this plane.

No one but you has even eluded to that.

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It’s a huge win for Iran

You are the only one who thinks this.

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Posted by Blizzard of Chizz

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Posted on 1/9/20 at 2:19 pm to Blizzard of Chizz

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Dumb thought but the shooting down of that plane really makes no sense at all. Planes come and go from that airport all the time and yet for some odd reason someone gets an itchy trigger finger and accidentally shoots a plane down? I’m not buying it... however, if you take a step back and look at the weak retaliation last night by Iran and their firing ballistic missiles into our bases, it might. Consider the scenario, Iran fires a few dozen missiles into the bases and goads the mad man DJT into responding with air strikes. Surprise surprise a commercial airliner gets downed in the confusion and everyone gets to blame their deaths on Trump and his recklessness. It’s a huge win for Iran

Bump.

And now listen to the chorus of Dems and talking heads desperately trying to blame Trump. Imagine the outrage level had we retaliated. This is why they shot that plane down. Iran wasn’t trying to take on Trump head on with military might, they were trying to sink him politically by goading him into responding and then blaming him for this airliner being shot down. Of course their allies in the Democratic Party are trying like hell anyway.

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