Posted on 01/04/2020 1:34:52 PM PST by Kaslin
President Donald Trump gave the order to kill Iran's Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani a few days ago following a Hezbollah mob's attacks on the United States' embassy in Baghdad. Now that Soleimani is dead, we're learning that this isn't the first opportunity a nation has had to kill the Iranian terrorist.
In fact, Israel was "on the verge" of killing Soleimani back in 2015 but the Obama administration put a stop to it. The administration alerted Iranian officials about Israel's plans and their close tracking of the military leader.
Despite what we know, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow the Obama administration never had the opportunity to take down Soleimani.
"There's been a bunch of reporting, over years that the U.S. had previously assessed that it could be more dangerous to kill Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, than to allow him to live, even when U.S. forces did potentially have a shot at him," Maddow said. "I just wanted to ask – there's a lot of discussion about that reporting now that the air strike has happened and that Soleimani is dead. What's your – what can you tell us, in this non-classified setting here, about that reporting, whether it's accurate and is there any reason we should think that that calculation somehow changed before this air strike?"
"Well, to my knowledge, Rachel, and certainly while I was National Security Advisor, the Obama administration was presented with an opportunity by our intelligence community or by the U.S. military to strike Qasem Soleimani," Rice explained.
Of course, the former National Security Advisor gave her take on what the Obama team would have done if that opportunity presented itself.
"Had we been presented with such an opportunity what we would have done is weighed, very carefully and very deliberately, the risks verses the potential rewards. We would have assessed all of the ways in which this could have enhanced our security and degraded our security and I think that what – judging from what I know and what we're likely to see I think that the real reason to believe that in all likelihood that the benefits will be outweighed by the risks," she said. "And we also would have taken all sorts of time and effort to prepare to ensure that our personnel, diplomatic and military, in the region were protected against the likelihood of Iranian retaliation."
Was Susan Rice unaware of the fact that Israel had the ability to take down Soleimani years ago? Or that the Obama administration put an end to that? Talk about lying by omission.
But then again, this isn't the first time she's had questionable judgement. Back in 1996, when she was the National Security Council’s senior director for African affairs under President Bill Clinton, she urged the White House to refuse the Sudanese offer to turn Osama bin Laden over to the United States.
Then there was Benghazi, which she repeatedly blamed on some bogus anti-Muslim video that sparked "protests." It was later revealed that those talking points were blatantly false.
Susan Rice: "The Obama administration was not presented with an opportunity by our intelligence community or by the U.S. military to strike Qassem Soleimani." pic.twitter.com/y0CrcnfLvw— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 4, 2020
I saw that too and wondered if they omitted a word in transcfibing her comment like ‘no’ on purpose or by accident. Probably an accidental omission on her part or the transcriber’s, given the context.
“Offing Soleimani would have been a violation of his commitment.”
Perhaps offing Soleimani would have affected his kick-back from the billions he gave Iran.
Nobody would have dared to suggest we strike an Iranian with Valerie Jarrett in charge.
Everyone in the Obama Admin knew Iran was off-limits as they begged them to take their frozen assets back and make a fake nuclear agreement that bought them valuable time to complete their work.
She’s a whore.
Is anyone surprised that Rice is a liar? Only uninformed people or diehard globalists would believe her comments and/or support the party propaganda. Especially after the Benghazi event & her Sunday news show rounds.
She willingly lied to Americans and the world about Benghazi, plus covering for the Corrupt Sec. of State HRC.
Missed this memo in Benghazi!
Yes. He often liked to be behind cough cough...
Exactly!
Why kill the guy when you can send him 1.5 billion in unmarked bills to arm himself and his militias with the soul purpose of killing Americans and fueling other conflicts to start a continuous stream of refugees to take over europe with?
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The democrats, the media, Iran... all in it together.
“Had we been presented with such an opportunity what we would have done is weighed, very carefully and very deliberately, the risks verses the potential rewards. We would have assessed all of the ways in which this could have enhanced our security and degraded our security and I think that what – judging from what I know and what we’re likely to see I think that the real reason to believe that in all likelihood that the benefits will be outweighed by the risks,” she said. “And we also would have taken all sorts of time and effort to....”
You think Soleimani would have been nice enough to wait there while you got that done brain wave?
She is blatant - has to be a pathology
RiceIdiot is like HillaryIdiot - any time their lips are moving, they are flat out lying.
They lie, because it comes natural to them.
What did she say other than “we’d done nothing” but waste time and think about it?
It’s no different when the a-holes said that they could not have gotten Bin Laden during the Clinton years. Susan Rice is pure scum and it’s scary how the left lies and deceives.
Susan Rice as a National Security Advisor is the poster child for the joke that was the Obama Administration.
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