Trump Approves Strikes on Iran, but Then Abruptly Pulls Back

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MSN ^ | June 21, 2018 | Michael D. Shear, Eric Schmitt, Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman

Posted on 06/20/2019 10:20:25 PM PDT by Leaning Right

President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions.

As late as 7 p.m., military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike, after intense discussions and debate at the White House among the president’s top national security officials and congressional leaders, according to multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations.

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I'm completely at sea on this. I have no idea what's going on here. So I'll just present this article without comment.

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Fake news.

Tenor and context distorted as per normal.

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(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

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As if MSN has a clue. Are they tracking late night pizza deliveries to the Pentagon?

The track record on that metric is abysmal.

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(We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)

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Approved but pulled it back, oh yeah. Absolutely #FakeNews! The president of the United States has so called emergency war powers. Long time ago USS Samuel B. Roberts while on patrol at the Straits of Hormuz stocked a Iranian mine in retaliation operation praying mantis U.S. Navy almost wiped out the Iranian navy.

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Maggie Haberman is a lying skank who should never be given credibility.

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As if MSN would know, or could be trusted to tell the truth...

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