Posted on 02/02/2017 5:12:41 AM PST by C19fan
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was looking into whether more civilians were killed in a raid on al Qaeda in Yemen on the weekend, in the first operation authorized by President Donald Trump as commander in chief.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.
Some hacks in the Pentagon throwing Trump under the bus. Isn't it the Pentagon's job to determine if it has sufficient intelligence and the right operational plan?
Yep, he and the SecDef are relying on “the Pentagon” for this plan, and for something like this- to send people in to seize assets instead of just droning the place like obama has been doing - the plan was on the shelf a long time before Trump became President
Maybe “the Pentagon” should have known the women there were al Qaeda combatants willing to use their children as shields
I can only presume the timing was driven by concern over the closing of a window of opportunity to seize whatever they were after
I read obama had already authorized this plan and trump carried it out. True?????
This was a large and extensive gun fight that went on for over two hours. The SEALs never backed down. Pretty impressive for a lightly armed SpecOps team.
1. Almost all Al Qaeda terrorists are “civilians”, since they do not wear uniforms and are not members of a government’s military.
2. Given that Obama’s favorite terrorists are cowards who still hide behind real civilians, some innocent civilian deaths are inevitable. However, that is far fewer losses than would occur if we allowed those rapists and mass murderers to continue killing innocent people.
It is still Obama’s Military until Trump can get rid of the vermin that rose to the top under the Obama Admin. I cannot believe that anyone who cares about our country or our Military would put out that statement. Trump needs to clean house IMMEDIATELY. And the Media has quickly moved from ‘Bush’s fault’ to ‘Trump’s fault’, completely bypassing the 8 feckless years of Obama.
Some hacks in the Pentagon throwing Trump under the bus. Isn’t it the Pentagon’s job to determine if it has sufficient intelligence and the right operational plan?
I smell an Obamunist here. The kenyan was famous for waiting forever to conduct an op and often times the perps got away.
Sounds like you are running scared. Stand up and be counted. You are a YUGE President Trump supporter. AND I notice you do not even call him by his title, President, your head is spin this so fast.
I would guess that President Trump's side mission (second stop) without the WH press yesterday was directly to the Pentagon to kick some a$$ and take some names on the Pentagon talking to the Press about this. AND RIGHTLY SO. These low levels should NOT be talking to the Press and President Trump's admin made that clear day one. Time to kick some serious a$$ and rid the Pentagon of these Obama Rainbow holdovers.
When a woman/child/dog/cat/ picks up a weapon and AIMS it at me that something is an enemy combatant and is dead. Seems Mattis and President Trump's ROEs are the same and about DAMN TIME.
NO MORE BS PUSSY FOOTING AROUND. KILL 'EM ALL and to hell with the LIBERALS.
From the article: “The military officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said “a brutal firefight” killed Owens and at least 15 Yemeni women and children. One of the dead was the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant killed by a 2011 U.S. drone strike.”
The “on condition of anonymity” attention whores and/or lefties need to be purged from the military and/or tried under the UCMJ. However, there are other remedies, such as battle field accidents and such, that provides for a more permanent cure.
Stupid post. Just stupid. Yeah I dont call hi. President trump..I have a Hard enough time with my phone keyboard..I wanted to know if obama had approved of order like I read
Word was that it looked like the enemy had been tipped off. So this is probably in part an attempt by the Deep State enemy within to fight back from that having reached the press—since they probably were involved in the tipping.
Btw...if this was obama planned raid like reported by many..then it gives another look at who might have leaked details on raid before it happened..so yeah..important
On a scale of 1 - 10, this rates at about a 0.001 in interest.
No one cares....they’re all enemy combatants one way or the other.
Don’t worry about it: their little piss ant god, allah, will sort em out.
That is why I asked whether what I read about obama approving the plan was true...it gives a new perspective...and why I think earticks post to me is idiotic
Those men may have Been betrayed
Hey! Reuters!!!
Prove you are not making this shit up!
Yep, I saw U.S.-based pro-Ukrainian think tank (PR) putting out propaganda about how the U.S. military was unprepared and botched this operation and killed innocent women and children. Our Deep State is now fully in bed with globalists and ready to vilify the U.S. military for its neocon globalist agenda. Sickening.
This type of SEAL smash and grab op is not supposed to last two hours. Somebody misjudged the force required to take out these dirtbags.
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