While other officials have been punctuating their comments on Iran with
an assurance that the US does not seek war with Iran for awhile,
President Trump is pushing for his representatives to tone down their harsh rhetoric even more, and take more time to reiterate that the US doesn’t want war.
Trump has in the past several days made repeated comments talking down
the idea of war, saying that Thursday’s tanker attacks were “very
minor,” and giving the impression he doesn’t envision war resulting from
anything short of Iran trying to get nuclear weapons.
But before Trump started making these comments, he was largely mum on
the matter, leaving it to other officials, particularly Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo, who were emphasizing the US exploring military
options, amid months of US military buildup in the area around Iran.
This all had given the impression that a war was imminent, or that the
US was at least slowly building to one. Yet Trump has tried to make
clear that isn’t his intention at all, and he’s keen to not just say
that himself, but to get the rest of the administration on the same
page, with the same message.
That’s a very unusual move for the administration, as having several
high-ranking officials taking several wildly differently tones has been
practically standard for Trump. The Iran issue seems to be important
enough, however, that he wants a more uniform narrative.
Iran has downed a US drone early Thursday morning. Iran claims that the drone was in Iranian air space. A US spokesperson claims that he drone was in international air space.
So because our precious DOD, and ‘we lie, we cheat and we stole’ Pompeo and his buddy ‘Bomb Iran’ Bolton say that the drone was in international waters and not in Iranian airspace are we suppose to believe them?
IranAir flight 655, an Iranian airliner that was shot down by the missile cruiser USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people on board. The passenger plane, which was in Iranian airspace, had been incorrectly identified as a fighter jet.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Air-flight-655
To even deny that the US and its most favored ally have been planning a war with Iran for 4 decades is proof that most Americans have drank the ‘Kool-Aid’.
Stop the forever wars!
America needs to invest in its future and in itself.
Trump if you truly plan to keep your promises about bringing US troops home then don’t let the madmen you surround yourself with lead you and us to another war!
I agree. I wouldn’t believe one word Pompous Pompass and Bonkers Bolton say .. They’re both pathological liars, and Bonkers is a complete lunatic.
DJT should’ve dumped those two when they sabotaged his agenda of pulling all US troops out of Syria and pulled them out anyway .. These troops were (are) in the country illegally; only Russia and Iran were invited into Syria by President Bashar Assad .. All others entered illegally and must withdraw – including the US/UK/France,
As far as Iran’s concerned, it’s a peaceful country that hasn’t attacked its neighbors in nearly 500 years. Can the UK rightly claim the same? Can the US, or any other country involved say the same? Of course not. Iran has history and culture going back over 4,000 years.
Trump has twice threatened Iran with total annihilation. Practice what you preach.
As shown in this article, there is one key reason why Iran feels that it must defend itself:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/06/irans-forgotten-history-why-iran-must.html
Iranians learned a very painful and costly lesson about who they could count on to defend their sovereignty during the 1980s.
Yea, and today he threatened them with war because they shot down a U.S. predator drone over their territory.
He’s a nut case.
“Yet Trump has tried to make clear that isn’t his intention at all”
No. He hasn’t done that. He could have sent out a tweet to that effect or clearly stated that at one of his revivials/rallies, but he didn’t. He kept it vague, as he always does. I think he was workshopping it, seeing if his partisans could drum up enough support for it before committing.
Just to show how stupid and useless Trump’s remarks are, today he said the Iranian drone shootdown might have been a “mistake”, and then said – unbelievably – “we didn’t have a man in it” – like this moron doesn’t know what the word DRONE means! I mean, seriously? He’s trying to “reassure” people that our drones don’t have pilots?
This is why nothing the man says can be taken even remotely seriously, whether it’s a tweet or a comment to the press. He’s like every other President in recent history – he says anything that drips out of his mouth because he couldn’t care less what the public thinks because he knows the public is clueless and incapable of doing anything about it.