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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 07:59 PM Apr 2019

Trump again overrules top brass

President Donald Trump has declared on more than one occasion that he’s smarter than America’s military leaders.

And with his unprecedented decision Monday to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist group, he’s setting up another test of that thesis.

Trump chose to overrule the Pentagon after National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo advised that the top brass' warnings about risks to U.S. troops are overblown, several officials with direct knowledge of the deliberations told POLITICO.

The president’s move came despite Pentagon officials’ warnings that it could lead to retaliatory attacks against U.S. troops by Iranian-backed forces in the Middle East and threats from Iranian leaders that U.S. troops could face “consequences.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-again-overrules-top-brass/ar-BBVJPGN?li=BBnb7Kz

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Trump again overrules top brass (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
Wasnt there a link between that group and the Azerbaijan Hotel deal? AndJusticeForSome Apr 2019 #1
this is what he's doing.... Takket Apr 2019 #2
trump is crazed. Turbineguy Apr 2019 #3

Takket

(21,568 posts)
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Mon Apr 8, 2019, 08:56 PM
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