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Fast Walker 52

(7,723 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 04:55 PM Feb 2017

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 Trump’s 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!
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Donald Trump's staff get him to agree to policies by saying 'Obama wouldn't have done it' (Original Post) Fast Walker 52 Feb 2017 OP
The Generals love to play with their toys. n/t ginnyinWI Feb 2017 #1
pure speculation by unamed sources. nt msongs Feb 2017 #2
racist piece of shit Skittles Feb 2017 #3
why not just offer him a piece of candy? barbtries Feb 2017 #4
They may have botched the raid in other ways, but 1/28/17 was a moonless night. Arkansas Granny Feb 2017 #5
the reason the Generals and SOD did this was because of INdemo Feb 2017 #6
Locking... DonViejo Feb 2017 #7

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
1. The Generals love to play with their toys. n/t
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 04:56 PM
Feb 2017

msongs

(67,394 posts)
2. pure speculation by unamed sources. nt
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 04:57 PM
Feb 2017

Skittles

(153,147 posts)
3. racist piece of shit
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 05:04 PM
Feb 2017

barbtries

(28,787 posts)
4. why not just offer him a piece of candy?
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 05:08 PM
Feb 2017

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)
5. They may have botched the raid in other ways, but 1/28/17 was a moonless night.
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 05:09 PM
Feb 2017

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
6. the reason the Generals and SOD did this was because of
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 05:27 PM
Feb 2017
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