There’s always a tweet
by digby
#BaghdadiKilled #Baghdadi #ISIS #Idlib #SundayThoughtsBack when it was a different president … pic.twitter.com/M0WqL0Jwsf
— Clear Cider (@TheClearCider) October 27, 2019
Here’s your president this morning:
There it is…didn’t take him long.“bin Laden was a big thing but this is the biggest thing there is. This is the worst ever. Osama bin Laden was very big but Osama bin Laden became big with the WTC. This is a man who built a whole caliphate” pic.twitter.com/D0YBSSywk9
— La Femme Nikita (@LaF3mm3Nikita) October 27, 2019
“I wrote a book, a really successful book, about a year before the World Trade Center…there’s someone named Osama bin Laden…you ought to take him out; he’s big trouble.
I think I wrote 12 books.
Nobody listened to me.” pic.twitter.com/FI9FBkMkM8— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) October 27, 2019
Trump on ISIS: “These people are very smart … very technically brilliant. They use the internet better than anyone else in the world .. perhaps except Donald Trump.”— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) October 27, 2019
Lot to talk about from this presser, but the announcement that imperial looting of oil resources is fully operational in Syria, and is directly tied to campaign rhetoric we were told not to take literally, should not get short shrift.— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 27, 2019
Aaaaand, of course:
A lot of emphasis on Russia’s role through out Trump’s description of the al-Baghdadi mission. Trump thanked Russia first. Went on to say “Russia was great, Russia let us fly through space. Russia hates ISIS as much as us.”— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) October 27, 2019
He thanked Russia before he thanks the US troops.
You knew his press conference would be grotesque and it was. The announcements about taking the oil and letting Exxon in to “run things” was especially interesting. he used to promise that during the campaign and nobody took him seriously. People should take him seriously.
He also said he’d use nuclear weapons by the way.
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