Pompeo says 'we don't know when, we don't know where' Soleimani had planned 'imminent attacks'

[spanone]

BULLSHIT.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Laura Ingraham in a sit-down interview Thursday night that while the U.S. did not know where or when Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was planning to attack, it was a "real" threat to U.S. assets in the Middle East.

The U.S. killed Soleimani in a drone strike last week ordered by President Trump that has further inflamed U.S.-Iran tensions.

"There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks being plotted by Qassem Soleimani," Pompeo told the Fox News host. "We don't know precisely when and we don't know precisely where, but it was real."

Iran promised a proportional retaliation after the strike killing Soleimani, and on Tuesday it launched a missile strike on two Iraqi bases that house U.S. troops. No American casualties were sustained.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/477664-pompeo-says-we-dont-know-when-we-dont-know-where-soleimani-had

[Wounded Bear]

1. Reminescent of the WMDs located somewhere north, south, east or west of Baghdad...

[usaf-vet]

24. My exact thoughts.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If you don't know when, how can they be "imminent"?

[Thomas Hurt]

3. conservative magical thinking

[greymattermom]

4. Exactly.

[spanone]

5. How Pompeo convinced Trump to kill Soleimani and fulfilled a decade-long goal

(CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was a driving force behind President Donald Trump's decision to kill a top Iranian general, sources inside and around the administration tell CNN, a high-stakes move that demonstrates Pompeo's status as the most influential national security official in the Trump administration.

Taking Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani "off the battlefield" has been a goal for the top US diplomat for a decade, several sources told CNN.

Targeting Iran's second most powerful official -- the leader of the Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, the politically and economically powerful military group with regional clout -- was Pompeo's idea, according to a source from his inner circle. That source said the secretary brought the suggestion to Trump. Pompeo "was the one who made the case to take out Soleimani, it was him absolutely," this source said.

According to multiple sources close to Pompeo, the secretary of state has believed throughout his career that Iran is at the root of all the Middle East's problems and has focused on Soleimani, Iran's "shadow commander," as the mastermind behind the country's state sponsored terrorism throughout the region.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/pompeo-trump-iran-soleimani/index.html

[Wellstone ruled]

32. Joe Lieberman,Ed Rendel,Rudy G

Chertof and others have been Lobbying on the Hill for weeks for a group called MEK based in Albania for this action.

Is MEK the Shah Family?

[Zoonart]

6. Their North, South, East, and West.

[malaise]

7. Makes sense

just like their rapture

Lock them the fuck up!

[3auld6phart]

8. Weird

Sounds so much like one of junior Bush’s Secretary’s.,Offhand I can’t recall his name.Can see his face clearly making that inane statement.

[spanone]

10. not weird....a LIE

[90-percent]

18. probably rumsfeld, of the unknown unknowns fame.

who also predicted the iraq invasion of 2003 would be over within six months.

-90% jimmy

[Blues Heron]

9. "it was real" lol

yeah right dude

[Johonny]

11. Isn't that what Generals do?

Our generals conduct war games all the time. Planning attacks, counter attacks, defenses ... that's sort of the job of a general. It's like saying the guy at the car wash was planning to wash cars. We don't know which car, but the threat of car washing was real.

[babylonsister]

12. Isn't assassination a war crime? nt

[spanone]

13. this entire administration is a war crime

the 'good christian' mike pompeo TALKED trump into killing this general which resulted in the all the deaths in the plane crash.....way to go mike

[Richard D]

14. Certainly . . .

[Sloumeau]

15. A month before the September 11, 2001 attacks, President Bush received..

a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the U.S.,".

In that case, they knew that Bin Laden wanted to strike America, but they did not know where and they did not know when.
Since the public found out about that memo, Republicans have treated it like it was nothing because it was not necessarily an imminent threat. And why did they put it in the "not an imminent threat" category? Well, because they did not know of any specific details of a specific attack, such as when and where the attack would be, they considered it not an imminent threat.

Now, Pompeo is arguing that something was an imminent threat when they had no idea where or when the attack would come. So, which is it, Republicans? If the U.S. knows that a bad guy wants to attack the U.S., but does not know where or when he plans to attack, is that an imminent threat or not? Does it require action or not? How about you Republicans make up your damn minds?

[Perseus]

16. We don't know where, or when, we have not made up that part yet, we need a couple more weeks

to try to get our full story in place...lying is not as easy as it sounds people, you have to get everyone involved on the same page, it is difficult to remember lies so please give us a few weeks to make up the crap, have time to study it (quizzes will be given) to make sure we repeat the same lie without changes, thank you...Mike-Lying Pompeo

[SCVDem]

17. Minority Report

Remove these clowns now because we know they will do something stupid very soon!

[dchill]

25. Exactly!

[OMGWTF]

19. I'm surprised this jerkhole didn't say we'd be "greated as liberators."

[Bob Loblaw]

20. Do these guys pre-wipe their asses

because sometime, somewhere they're going to take a shit?

[usaf-vet]

27. Probably not. They get the likes of Lindsey Graham, Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz to do that.

Trump sycophants duties.

[Traildogbob]

21. Rinse and repeat

The known knowns that we know that know the knowns that are not known that they know, know we all know about those knows that you have to trust that we know will be known when we know. Trust us. 15,000 lies later. Just from trump. Anyone have a GOP lie count back to 2000? The known ones, never mind the unknown ones. Rumsfeld still alive, not in prison?

[BuffaloJackalope]

22. They're making it up as they go along.

Except, such requires intelligence & imagination. Of which they are sorely lacking.

[Mila18]

23. Iran was going to attack us in the Gulf of Tonkin

Hey, the lie worked before.

[BlueMTexpat]

26. Then it wasn't "imminent" enough. eom

[Dukkha]

28. We can say with absolute certainty!

That they possibly maybe were thinking about imposing an imminent danger on some form of US interests somewhere.

We sent a letter to inquire:

Are you thinking of attacking?
___YES ___NO ___MAYBE

[yellowcanine]

29. So was it a known unknown or a unknown known?

Rummy would know.

[lame54]

30. And that was a friendly interview

[cp]

31. Prove it, Pompass

[LiberalLovinLug]

33. Something else overlooked. Is Solemani some Iranian superman? Was he alone going to attack?

How exactly would killing a top general, even the very top commander, prevent the one who replaces them from carrying out the original plans? Or worse now that they are more pissed off?

[Sunsky]

34. The embassy seems like a specific "where" to me

Liars. Can't even get their stories straight.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. Faith based foreign policy

[Iggo]

36. Imminent. It's a word. With a definition.

im·mi·nent
/ˈimənənt/

adjective
1.
about to happen.
"they were in imminent danger of being swept away"

That would seem to take care of the when, Mr Pompeo, you fucking liar.