Richard Engel tweet: US official tells @NBCNews no US troops have left Syria. They are not packing.

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Richard Engel ✔ @RichardEngel

US official tells @NBCNews no US troops have left Syria. They are not packing. No orders to pack. So, Trump’s apparent green light to Turkey for a military operation against the Kurds has trigged confusion and panic, but not real change, for now.

8:12 AM - Oct 8, 2019

[spanone]

1. This is what happens when a whack-a-doodle gets elected 'president'. People WILL die.

[bdamomma]

25. exactly

a TV sick celebrity, with dictatorial issues/leanings. Crap.

[Mike 03]

2. I wonder if the Pentagon pulled a Mattis and said "Ignore this order"?

[questionseverything]

29. at this point, they can say, i thought he was joking

isn't that what Rubio said about him asking china for biden dirt?

[lapfog_1]

3. so turkey has or has not started air strikes on key border

Kurd positions. I thought I saw it announced by some news orgs that this happened.

did it happen or not?

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Guessing no. The report of Turkey attacking Kurds was advanced by JPost and Sputnik

...neither have a stellar record of truth.

[lapfog_1]

9. so there is a video

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/syria-kurds-vow-form-human-shields-fend-looming-push-191007205116067.html

which shows a column of US vehicles traveling someplace and is labeled "US troops leaving northern Syria"... was that an actual video of a pullout or stock footage which was mis-identified?

[defacto7]

23. An Israeli news source as well.

[Ligyron]

26. Bibi nothatyahoo?

[dewsgirl]

5. It was near the border, on the Iraq side.

[Ilsa]

7. Yeah, has anyone told Turkey

that US troops have not left?

I wonder if the top military brass told the commanders on site to stay put because they were going to get the announcement retracted?

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Trump will try to save face

There will be some incident that can give him cover to change his mind. Trump will never admit he changed his mind or made a mistake.

[Scarsdale]

12. Nothing will "save"

that repulsive orange mug. I hope he has not put US troops in mortal danger this time.

[Iliyah]

8. t-rump fake news . . .

And yes, t-rump will get many killed.

[MontanaMama]

10. Glad to have a journalist

doing actual reporting on this. How else would we know what’s really happening? Stay safe Richard Engel.

[safeinOhio]

11. What happens to those that

Refuse to obey a tweet?

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Humor Trump

Tell him whatever he wants to hear. He's been lying to everyone, why not reciprocate the favor?

"Yes, Mr. President, the troops have all left already."

[ginnyinWI]

20. Feed him fake news!

At the end, Hitler was moving troops around on a board that didn’t exist, and nobody corrected him.

[Nitram]

14. Field commanders would have some latitude in how quickly and in what manner they obeyed an order

to withdraw, based on the safety of the troops involved. The military also knows how to stall, obstruct, and ignore stupid orders by the C-in-C.

[SCVDem]

22. Damn!

Must have been a bad load of gas!

All the fuel systems need to be cleared. Take about a week, easy!

Our aircraft sprung mysterious leaks when leadership got stupid.

[getagrip_already]

15. LOOK! SQUIRREL!

This completely washed out the news that trump and company were extorting money out of the gas companies - exactly what they falsely claimed biden had done.

The media, including left blogs, completely went after the syria story. Important, true, but it should have been linked.

[DemocracyMouse]

16. Wait... what? I did miss that gas co. story!

[getagrip_already]

17. apparently... it was even on rachel last night..... nt

[Javaman]

18. aka benedict donald is trying to distract us from his impeachment. nt

[Pepsidog]

19. Republicans think Trump is such a great negotiator. The facts are he is probably one of the worst

negotiators in presidential history and probably NY real estate history. Ask NY real estate developers about his deals. How can they not see he is a a complete and utter fool and fraud.

[roamer65]

21. The Pentagon is disregarding Dump's crap.

Hmmm....

[bdamomma]

24. oh boy

tRump is doing Putin's bidding???? Geez, things are in chaos just like this POS we have this is getting very dangerous. Rattling other countries cages now. He needs to be sedated and taken away.

[Sneederbunk]

27. I smell stunt.

[Thomas Hurt]

28. It is just another fn scam to distract.

[IndyOp]

30. We are the dog - we are wagging

I pray that anger and sadness and confusion will be enough wagging for the evil ones

[Vinca]

31. I've always wondered if Trump issued a totally foolish and dangerous order if the military would

ignore it. Given the uproar I'm betting Don is trying to figure out a way to retract the order without looking like the pathetic idiot he is.

[Buckeyeblue]

32. I would think it would take a while

And there was probably no advanced notice given. Trump makes decisions whimsically.