{"id":37618,"date":"2019-06-22T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37618"},"modified":"2019-06-22T01:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:28:03","slug":"here-come-the-questions-about-the-canceled-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37618","title":{"rendered":"Here come the questions about the canceled strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23Iranstrike%20%23droneshootdown&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/90-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37546\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/90-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/90-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/90-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/90-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/90-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The questions have started coming forth about Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that he called off a planned strike against Iran after hearing about the potential for civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Let me see how this played out.<\/p>\n<p>The president assigned the Pentagon to draft a strike plan against the Iranians after the Iranians shot down an unarmed drone over international waters.<\/p>\n<p>The brass followed the orders and then got the planes, ships and personnel ready to launch the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president decided to inquire about potential loss of life just as the planes were about to take flight? Is that right?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of military planning didn&#8217;t divulge that information from the very beginning? Thus, we now have suspicion over what the president told NBC News&#8217;s Chuck Todd, that he was &#8220;cocked and loaded&#8221; to deliver punishment to Iran, but only found out at the last minute to cancel the strike because it would have been a &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; response?<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of suspicion that haunts Donald Trump. He seems unable or unwilling to execute a plan the way it should be done. He wants us to believe that the Pentagon&#8217;s military planners didn&#8217;t tell him from the outset about the casualties that would be inflicted by such a strike?<\/p>\n<p>Please.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23Iranstrike%20%23droneshootdown&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The questions have started coming forth about Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that he called off a planned strike against Iran after hearing about the potential for civilian casualties. Hmm. Let me see how this played out. The president assigned the Pentagon to draft a strike plan against the Iranians after the Iranians shot down an unarmed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here come the questions about the canceled strike<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[1424,1459,8715,3544],"class_list":["post-37618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-iran-strike","tag-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37619,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37618\/revisions\/37619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}