Trump passes blame for Yemen raid to his generals: They lost Ryan

[jetcat]

WAIT A GOD-DAMN MINUTE.

Just a news-cycle ago this raid was a complete success, according to both Trump and his spicy press-pony. Now, we here this:

"In an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday morning, Trump said the mission 'was started before I got here.'

He noted that the operation was something his generals 'were looking at for a long time doing.'

'This was something that was, you know, just — they wanted to do,' Trump said. ("And since I was busy with the ice carvings at Mar-a-Lago, I said yeah, sure, whatever.“)

'And they came to see me and they explained what they wanted to do, the generals, who are very respected.'

'And they lost Ryan,' Trump continued."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/28/trump-passes-blame-for-yemen-raid-to-his-generals-they-lost-ryan/?utm_term=.d1cc3e44906da

So it was a complete success, except for the part that wasn't, like getting no usable intelligence and getting a Seal killed and getting a bus-load of kids killed.

The success part was tremendous, very big, very special. The failure part was Obama's fault, and also the fault of those respected but awful generals who wanted to do this and ended up making a completely successful-failure out of it.

Have you tried the little meatballs?

[onecaliberal]

1. Funny how this generals were not authorized to make that move when President Obama

Was in office. He couldn't have cared less that it was poorly planned and badly timed. It wasn't Uday and Qusay after all.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. House Rep Ted Lieu D-CA is having none of this shit. . .

Link to tweet

In fact, his whole Twitter feed is well worth reading.
https://twitter.com/tedlieu

[Achilleaze]

3. + 1,000

[Blue_true]

4. And Trump's followers believe him.

The right's psychosis regarding Obama is a thing to behold. One minute Obama is the dumbest person that ever lived, the next minute, Obama is all seeing, all powerful and capable of bending minds to his will, even if he isn't nearby.