Pentagon: Mattis consulted on Trump move to halt US-South Korean war games

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

Defense Secretary James Mattis was consulted on and not surprised by President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that the Pentagon will hold off on military exercises with South Korea during ongoing negotiations with North Korea, CNN reported.

“He was not surprised. He was consulted. . . . The secretary is in full alignment with the president to meet his goal which is denuclearization of the peninsula,” Pentagon chief spokeswoman Dana White told CNN.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford also knew of Trump’s plan to suspend large-scale military exercises, according to multiple news reports.

Trump at the meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that the Pentagon will halt joint military drills with South Korea during negotiations with Pyongyang.

The exercises, which the Pentagon has asserted are essential to military readiness, will stop “unless and until” negotiations go poorly, Trump said

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/391862-pentagon-mattis-consulted-on-trump-move-to-halt-us-south-korean-war-games

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So Mathis when you were under the command of Obama what exactly was your position...................please tell the public, what you would have said if he Obama would have done what your traitor boss did........................fuck you

[lagomorph777]

1. "Consulted" doesn't mean "approved."

I can't imagine any serious general would approve.

[turbinetree]

6. Just for curiosity sake, when did this consultation take place and is there any records, that were

not torn up and had to be re-taped...............

[lagomorph777]

8. Oh don't worry - Trump has an "amazing memory"...

...although his recollections are constantly refuted by videotape.

[turbinetree]

10. I forgot.................he spews that whenever he gets caught..................

[bitterross]

2. I call BS. I bet this is just so much PR /nt

[Iliyah]

3. Even the Pentagon seemed surprised.

And NK will not give up their nuclear bombs.

[Freethinker65]

4. So the US gives up something while NK gets to take time to negotiate. What a deal!!!!!

That NK beachfront land for condos and hotels must be really special.

[rainin]

5. He'd have to retire to contradict the POTUS. We don't know if was really "consulted."

[Me.]

7. Not Buying This For A NY Second

[exboyfil]

9. So Mattis did not emphasize the fact

that our military are not war mongers? It was joint military exercises and not "war games".

[Polly Hennessey]

11. Oh, sure.

Like not.