Donald Trump's staff get him to agree to policies by saying 'Obama wouldn't have done it'
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Source: UK Independent
Military officials got Donald Trump to agree to the botched Yemen raid by suggesting Barack Obama would never have had the courage to do it, it has been reported.
The raid, which had been planned for two months before Mr Trumps arrival in the Oval Office, killed 30 civilians and one US Navy SEAL but failed to kill its alleged target, al Qaeda leader Qassim al Rimi.
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Mr Obama had reportedly been told about the plan to kill al Rimi, who took over control of the Yemeni affiliate of the terror organisation in 2015, but held off approving it because his advisors had wanted to wait until a moonless night which would not have happened again till after he left office, the New York Times reported.
But Defence Secretary, General James "Mad Dog" Mattis, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, reportedly convinced Mr Trump to go ahead with the raid by suggesting Mr Obama would never have been so bold as to actually go through with it.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-yemen-raid-agree-to-policy-barack-obama-would-not-do-james-matthis-qassim-al-rimi-a7566861.html
Good god, these people are INSANE! All of them!
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)msongs
(67,394 posts)Skittles
(153,147 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)the little boy needs bribing?! oh this is so, so sick.
don't let him remember that Obama got Osama bin Laden when gw did squat. i won't forget though.
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)Trumps military experience
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512433182
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Duplicate of http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141693312