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applegrove

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Sat Feb 15, 2020, 08:24 PM Feb 2020

Memo Justifying Iran Strike Cites No Imminent Threat

Memo Justifying Iran Strike Cites No Imminent Threat

February 15, 2020 at 5:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 31 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/15/memo-justifying-suleimani-strike-cites-no-imminent-threat/

"SNIP.....

“The White House told Congress on Friday that President Trump authorized the strike last month that killed Iran’s most important general to respond to attacks that had already taken place and deter future ones, contradicting the president’s claim that he acted in response to an imminent threat,” the New York Times reports.

“In a legally mandated, two-page unclassified memo to lawmakers, the White House asserted that the strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was ‘in response to an escalating series of attacks in preceding months’ by Iran and Iran-backed militias.”

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Memo Justifying Iran Strike Cites No Imminent Threat (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2020 OP
And the truth finnally surfaces. Wellstone ruled Feb 2020 #1
As was obvious to anyone paying attention. unitedwethrive Feb 2020 #2
K&R UTUSN Feb 2020 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. And the truth finnally surfaces.
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 09:35 PM
Feb 2020

The Orange anus hired our Military out to his Sponsors the Saudi and Emertraties.

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