President Trump never gave the green light:
President Trump says that he had not given the final go ahead for an Iranian attack when he called off a strike on Thursday night. He told NBC’s Chuck Todd in a Friday interview that airs in full on Sunday morning on ‘Meet the Press’ that the planes were still on the ground when he called the whole thing off.
‘Nothing is greenlighted until the very end, because things change,’ Trump said. ‘We had something ready to go, subject to my approval.’
He said he asked the critical question that caused him to hold back of a military general a half hour before the aircraft was due to take off.
‘No, were about ready to go. No, but they would have been pretty soon,’ he said. ‘And things would have happened to a point where we wouldn’t turn back, couldn’t turn back.’
He said he asked how many people would be killed. ‘Approximately 150,’ the unidentified general told him.
Trump said the number gave him pause, considering Iran shot down an unmanned drone.
‘And here we are sitting with 150 people dead people that would have taken place, probably within a half hour, after I said go ahead. And I didn’t like it. I didn’t think it was proportionate,’ he said.
It was just more neoclown propaganda trying to force his hand into starting a war somewhere, anywhere. And he was right. It wasn’t a proportionate response, especially considering the probability that Iran had the right to shoot down a spy drone that had entered their territory.