Officials 'Stunned' Trump Took Most Extreme Option

[RandySF]

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“In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the option of killing him — which they viewed as the most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq — on the menu they presented to President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“They didn’t think he would take it. In the wars waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon officials have often offered improbable options to presidents to make other possibilities appear more palatable.”

“After initially rejecting the Suleimani option on Dec. 28 and authorizing airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Shia militia group instead, a few days later Mr. Trump watched, fuming, as television reports showed Iranian-backed attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad… By late Thursday, the president had gone for the extreme option. Top Pentagon officials were stunned.”




https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/04/officials-stunned-trump-took-most-extreme-option/

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Christ almighty. It's like they've never heard of the guy before.

HOW can people be so very stupid as to believe he will, at any time, exhibit reason or any kind of human behavior?

[Guilded Lilly]

18. It defies any logic or intelligence doesn't it? N/T

[Corgigal]

21. Also agree.

How could anyone be shocked? After 3 years of this fool? They, whoever they are , are lying.

[BadgerMom]

30. Exactly my reaction reading this.

He’s evil. They’re stupid.

[JonLP24]

2. Don't offer that extreme shit

[dem4decades]

12. Yeah. Please. Leave the nuclear shit out.

[brush]

3. Why don't they know by now he's irrational?

The killing should never been on an options menu given to a madman.

Now we know how he will react in a crisis situation.

He will fuck it up.

[Permanut]

4. They were so stunned, they probably will refuse to follow any more of his orders.

[Ohiogal]

9. LOL

[Dan]

29. Sorry, until and when

He is no longer POTUS, the military will continue to follow his orders to the death of the nation., unless there is a military coup.

[polichick]

5. Dumbasses. Guess they'll be flabbergasted when he orders a nuclear strike.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. "They didn't think he would take it."

I question their intelligence if they still haven't figured out that our president is a lunatic.

[live love laugh]

7. Smacks of contrivance to me--a CYA story. nt

[sueunderh]

27. Definitely CYA

Pentagon advisors were quick to put this story out. What the hell did they think an amoral degenerate would do?

[Ohiogal]

8. This is the same reason

you don’t allow a toddler to play with matches. Holy crap ....Don’t these morons know this guy is a psychopath by now? That he never does anything the intelligent or sensible way?

[Totally Tunsie]

10. This is what happens when the "menu" doesn't

contain hamberders. He knows nothing else.

[dalton99a]

11. You don't have to show him a menu with everything on it

[Thomas Hurt]

13. Complete bullshit. They have had three years and know Trump is an amoral swine.

[Merlot]

17. yup.

[Nay]

25. Zakly. Trump's true nature has been on full display and those around him

have no excuse. They are lying POS.

[Mike Nelson]

14. Are there people out there still surprised...

...when Crooked Donald does something illegal or stupid?

[Wellstone ruled]

15. If those so concerned Individuals want to do something,

go before the Media Cameras and resign post hast.

[LuvNewcastle]

23. I thought the same thing, but they're probably afraid of who will

replace them if they leave. The fundagelical endtimers will probably be trying to get some of their people appointed to those spots, and that would be the ultimate nightmare. Checkmate. We are really on the brink of ruin, here. I don't want to be too much of an alarmist, but I think we're in much worse shape today than we were on 9/11. At least we still had a Congress then.

[dchill]

16. They're shocked! He gambles with someone else's money!

[Takket]

19. "parents stunned 4 year old ordered mac and cheese instead of broccoli"

[emmaverybo]

24. Excellent. Still chuckling to self.

[Ilsa]

38. That's a keeper. nt

[Guilded Lilly]

20. The Stupid list swells.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. How naive can you get?

Stunned that he took the most extreme option? Have they not been watching him for the past three years?

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Sounds like the plot for "Dr. Strangelove: 2020"

[msongs]

28. trump n co are all exempt from the tenish commandments nt

[Wounded Bear]

31. Trump is the walking embodiment of Murphy's Law...

andything that can go wrong, he'll cause it, and at the worst possible time.

[Skittles]

32. how can anyone be surprised by what that fascist dictator-wannabe does?

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HOW STUPID ARE THEY???

[SCVDem]

33. trump wanted his Cohn

I want one patriotic Secret Service agent.

Save America!

[Hoyt]

34. I can believe it happened like article says, but I often wonder if there

is someone who actually saw/heard this, or is it just speculation based on what we know about the MFer.

[Gore1FL]

35. It's like when people were stunned that Bush went into Iraq as soon as he got authorization.

Oh, but he said he'd wait until it was a last resort...

[Initech]

36. Really? Have you been paying attention to this administration since the beginning?

Trump *ALWAYS* picks the most extreme position on everything and it doesn't take a West Point general to figure that one out!

[KPN]

37. Really? Stunned? Oh, just go fuck yourselves sssholes. There

is no fucking excuse. Every fucking one of you had enabled and probably actually genuflected to fucking 666. You are all fucking cowardly traitors to the human species and this glorious earth.

[softydog88]

39. President Obama took out Bin Laden...

so this jerkoff wanted to do the same thing. Plain and simple. It won't be long before this assclown is declaring that Suleimani was worse than Bin Laden, and that his action, therefore, was more courageous and simply greater than killing the man who masterminded 9/11. There is no end to this man's corruption, lies, greed, macho posturing, stupidity, shamelessness, denial and false bravado. All of it to his own ends. I was reading about the new U.S.S. Enterprise, due to be active in 2025 or 2027, if a 2 year delay is approved. In December 2016, just a few weeks before the Orange Sphincter infested the White House, Ray Mabus, the Democratic Secretary of the Navy, selected Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles to be her sponsors. What an inspired choice! But if the decision had come three weeks later, you can damn well be sure that the sponsors would have been Ivanka and Tiffany Trump...or probably just Ivanka, because Tiffany's father tends to forget her existence. Sigh. Nothing is too low for this "man."

[flying_wahini]

40. Yeah, the old whoduthunkit defense. Never saw it coming.

[edbermac]

41. I'm stunned that they are stunned.

Don’t they have a clue that this guy is out of his mind?

[58Sunliner]

42. I'm sure it's already been said, but who the fuck thought it was a good idea?

[wnylib]

43. "Stunned" is not credible. There are some

people at the Pentagon who are hawks. They might be in favor of extreme action and escalation.

Kennedy was at odds with the Pentagon hawks over Cuba. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, they wanted him to invade and overthrow Castro, gambling that the Soviets would not retaliate in defense of Cuba.

Trump might have allies at the Pentagon when it comes to extreme measures.

[JudyM]

44. Darwin Award at this point. These guys are in charge?

[liberalla]

45. They didn't think he would take it ?? !?!!! ? !

[spanone]

46. no one should be stunned by anything this madman does