H/T to Talking Points Memo on this.
Regarding Iran's "response" to President Trump's B-2 attack.
Trump posted this on this on social media:
I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured...
But look carefully at this from Ronald Reagan's favorite news source, The Washington Times:
President Trump said Iranian leaders cleared their plan with the U.S. to fire retaliatory strikes against an American airbase in Qatar, and even requested a specific time to attack.
“They said, ’We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said it’s fine. And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners,” Mr. Trump said at a press conference in the Netherlands, where he is attending a NATO summit.
Monday’s Iranian attack on Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. military installation in the region, was repelled by missile defense batteries, and there were no casualties, the Pentagon said.
TPM found a transcript to confirm:
You saw that, where 14 missiles were shot at us the other day.
And uh, they were very nice. They gave us warning. They said we're going to shoot them. Is 1:00, OK? I said it's fine. And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn't get hurt except for the gunners. They call them the gunners. And uh, out of 14 high end missiles that were shot at the base in Qatar, all 14, as you know, were shot down by our equipment.
Trump gave the OK for a foreign country to attack an American airbase.
Or at the very least he said he did.
Let that sink in.
