Pence: 'We're not convinced' downing of drone was 'authorized at the highest levels'
Source: The Hill
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 06/23/19 09:35 AM EDT
Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that the U.S. still doubts whether the downing of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone had been authorized by Iran's leadership.
The president
had doubt as to whether the downing of our unmanned aircraft was authorized at the highest levels, Pence told CNNs Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." Were not convinced it was authorized at the highest levels.
President Trump reportedly cancelled a retaliatory strike on Iran at the last minute last week, and tweeted that he decided it would be disproportionate upon learning it would likely cost 150 lives.
This is a president whos always going to count the cost, Pence told Tapper on Sunday. The president looked at the potential loss of human life and concluded that was not proportionate.
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Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Putin told him to stop, he could care less how many lives are lost. How about the lives lost in these camps at our borders? Pence is a fake Christian. tRump is a fake president, who has no idea what the HELL he is doing. He will blunder us all into world war 111. Hey, his "kids" will not have to serve, so why not.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)It doesn't matter because their braindead constituency will believe anything they tell them. If this presidency was a novel, it so absolutely beyond the pale that no publisher would publish it.
Submariner
(12,503 posts)Priest: How many times did you have to lie this week to cover up for the jerk off you work for?
Mikey: So many i have lost count. Please forgive father for I have sinned....and I can't stop lying working for this guy.
Priest: You're going to hell Mikey.
hunter
(38,311 posts)...much enjoyed by him and his confessor, who are both going to hell.
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)What a tool. Does he even think we believe that his boss gives one whit about loss of life?
Tell that to the children in the cages. Or their parents.
This guy needs to f*** off.
The thing about theocratic dictatorships is nothing of any significance is ever done without say so. And that say so flows down from the top.
This won't play well with some of the followers. Watch for puzzled head scratching amongst the magats. Bolton is so pissed his upper lip caterpillar is vibrating.
calguy
(5,306 posts)Iran called our bluff. We're scared shitless. We don't have a clue what to. We're just trying to bullshit our way out of this.
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)Being god. If they truly believe in god wouldn't god have NOT allowed it to happen if he didn't want it to?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Several times Trapper almost broke out in laughter at Pence's evasions.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)He's sold his soul to the Devil a long time ago. He has no compass, no ethics, no morals.
Apparently he was one of the voices in the room that was pushing for an Iranian bombing campaign, along with Bolton and Pompeo. As soon as Trump changes his mind, after hearing the voices from the more libertarian anti world police voices like Tucker who made clear to him it may affect him being re-elected, Pence turns on a dime to follow his meal ticket dotard and pretends to have been on the same page all along.
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dalton99a
(81,475 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)He may be a robot.