Bombshell from Reuters:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[GusBob]

1. Who needs intel briefings

Seriously, her emails

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Exactly

Racist Bannon tells Donny Quest all he needs to know

[uponit7771]

38. +1

[TheDebbieDee]

126. E-MAILS! E-MAILS! E-MAILS!

You weren't saying it loud enough!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Trump approved it

Who proposed it?

[Kingofalldems]

6. Starts with a B ends in an N.

[TexasTowelie]

28. Yes,

he gets Barron and Bannon confused frequently.

[adigal]

46. Did he also approve the 13 civilians killed? He said he would kill families of terrorists

And he did. Was is purposefully???

War criminal

[IronLionZion]

81. Including the 8 year old American-born girl

who was probably guilty of something according to Trump's people

[Bernardo de La Paz]

88. Trump on record demanding to kill families. And he crowed about the raid. He's proud of his decision

[stonecutter357]

102. putin?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. K&R. nt

[elleng]

4. I'm awaiting time when military 'operatives' just say NO.

[pangaia]

9. THAT is our only hope..

That the military refuses him.. and turns against him/them..

[elleng]

10. Yes, I think it is.

[Nitram]

119. Oh, they will say NO when the shit hits the fan.

[GP6971]

5. Hmmm. Have to wonder

who these military officials were. They took a huge risk.

[brush]

84. FYI: Obama rejected the raid because intelligence was not sufficient.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Trump has a very good brain so he doesn't need intelligence briefings.

In fact, "intelligence" seems to be a foreign concept to him.

[Achilleaze]

117. The Republican draft-dodger-in-chief is radically "inadequate"

unfit to command

[Separation]

122. Thats not being factually honest.

The raid was postponed until the next moonless cycle which would put it into Trumps administration.

With that being said, in my opinion (and we all know how much that is worth). Trump hasn't filled his cabinet yet, and droves of intelligence analysts have left. There should have been more eyes on this than there were. This part here is not Trump's fault, the mission should have been scrubbed once they knew that they were being tracked incoming. That lays at the foot of the mission commander. But, as the ol saying goes, "The buck stops here".

[Barack_America]

8. But this shit always works out in the movies...

...how was he to know?

And, oh yeah, BENGHAZI, motherfucker.

[Trust Buster]

11. Republicans are no lnger interested in Benghazi-like American deaths.

[BainsBane]

13. Exactly what I would expect from that buffoon

Many more will die too.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Trump is Captain Queeg. We all know what needs to happen.

[spanone]

15. holy shit. people died. the fucking arrogance.

[dalton99a]

16. "I know more than the generals"

[True Dough]

56. The hubris

Drumpf is in waaaaaay over his head, and statements like that one make him look even more foolish.

[malaise]

63. Precisely

He knows everything about everything - NOT

[Girard442]

17. The late, great Bartcop said it best:

Soldiers would rather die under Bush{Trump} than live under Clinton{Obama}.

No, it doesn't make any sense to me either.

[homegirl]

43. Still

miss Terry and his best ever site.

[Baitball Blogger]

18. That wasn't a reuters link.

That was a link to a page for a fantasy and sci-fi writer.

Though I do believe it, could you please post a reuter link?

[justiceischeap]

21. Here ya go, I tracked it down

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-commando-idUSKBN15G5RX

Fifth paragraph

[Kingofalldems]

22. Here is one I think is updated---more casualties possible.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-commando-idUSKBN15G5RX

[benld74]

39. That's the article I read

Obama held off to get more information B4 committing.
DT decided it was enough

[Proud Liberal Dem]

111. Hence, the limits of being "tough" and "decisive"

instead of cautious and thorough (which Republicans regularly call "weak&quot

[Baitball Blogger]

44. Thank you! I appreciate it.

[brush]

85. Here's another one.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-officials-trump-ordered-raid-in-yemen-that-killed-us-navy-seal-was-approved-without-sufficient-intelligence-2017-2

[stopbush]

19. He's now getting our soldiers killed because he's an asshole.

And his supporters love it! We're not afraid to get our hair mussed, as long as it's one of our chattle getting killed.

[Generic Brad]

20. And I was giving him 28 more days before he had an American killed

I am so sorry for that service person's family.

[Quixote1818]

23. Trump's first Benghazi. nt

[LostinRed]

51. Won't even get the slightest scrutiny

If it was president Hillary Clinton the hearing would have Started today.

[harun]

93. First of many Benghazi's that his supporters won't ever scrutinize

[Flatpicker]

24. The guy

Doesn't have the attention span for due diligence.

[Ilsa]

68. "He doesn't have a big enough brain for this job"

is what Hubby said. He isn't smart enough or patient enough.

Now that the military sees that they are screwed, theyll be more circumspect about his insane orders.

[KittyWampus]

25. Holy Shit. Congress needs to call for investigation. WHO really ordered it. Bannon?

[haele]

89. Bets on Flynn. They were after "computers" and "intelligence"

Flynn is supposed to be Drumpf's National Security Guru because he rose to be a leadership fail in the DNI before he was kicked out.
Bannon (We'll be at war with China over the South China Sea soon)'s seven years as a failure as an officer in the U.S. Navy as well as failure as a psych experiment project leader in Biodome 2 is the reason he's Drumpf's Strategy and probably Military advisor.

Haele

[Kingofalldems]

26. But but Spicer said it was a glorious success.

Link to tweet

[KittyWampus]

29. He said they got "incredible amounts of information". Who does that really sound like?

INCREDIBLE amounts.....

[uponit7771]

40. +1

[anneboleyn]

27. I really hope this goes everywhere. This is disgusting. Trump threw away this man's life. And it

will only get worse. Trump is proving that he is totally heartless.

[Purrfessor]

30. Trump knows more than the generals. So how did this happen?

[lindysalsagal]

31. But..that's not how the tv writers said it would go at the pitch meeting....

sad

[triron]

32. Now he's pissing off the military

[Glimmer of Hope]

33. And they are talking to Reuters and putting Trump is his place.

[uponit7771]

41. This, someone's pissed off because Benedict Donald didn't listen or pay half ass attention

[czarjak]

34. Killed 10....

Created 1,000 new ones. Thanks Trump.

[kentuck]

35. Yep!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028561006

[zentrum]

36. Cowardly Generals need to

.....step forward and expose this loudly and do their higher duty of protecting the country from this madman.

[vlyons]

37. knows more than the generals

[SaschaHM]

42. This is big. We won't get any hearings on it though since the Republicans will protect their own.

If the media does it's job though, this could be a significant blow for the upcoming 2017 elections.

[AJT]

45. But, but, but BENGHAZI!

[rpannier]

47. Probably got teh idea from watching Patton - the movie

Or some movie about a failed military engagement and thought "What a great idea."

[Blue_true]

116. He likely got it from watching Rambo movies.

One slightly addled soldier drops in and almost single handily, takes out two enemy brigades and the Russians advising the enemy. Trump is going to get people killed.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

48. #TRUMPGHAZI

#TRUMPGHAZI

[NBachers]

49. This is a total unmitigated disaster from the get-go. Worse than Benghazi

because trump and his jingos have their fingerprints all over it.

"thoroughly vetted by the previous administration and that the previous defense secretary had signed off on it in January"

See? It's all Obama's fault.

[brush]

86. You forgot the sarcasm gif. Obama rejected that raid because of insufficient intelligence.

[NBachers]

113. I figure obvious sarcasm is its own gif.

[brush]

115. Ok. We're on the same page.

[ffr]

104. Precisely what I was thinking.

Surprised more aren't screaming that from rooftops too.

The KGOP better be able to take it, because I'm ready to dump on 'em.

[myrna minx]

50. K&R

[Thrill]

52. Military in big shit with this dumbass as CiC

[braddy]

53. SEAL team 6 would have been doing their own planning, and had been for months, they do not just

get told to suit up and get on the aircraft to be dropped somewhere to shoot people.

[wishstar]

64. Pres. Obama had decided against the plan which was turned over to Trump Admin

Ball was tossed into Trump's court who mishandled it

[Lurks Often]

71. Stop trying to interject common sense into the outrage!!!!

We both know this is a bullshit story. Presidents don't get involved in operational planning.

Unnamed sources say something bad about Trump and half the members here throw common sense and critical thinking right out the window.

More plainly this is pretty much the same thing the right did when there was a bullshit negative story about President Obama.

[brush]

87. Huh? Guess you didn't hear Obama rejected the raid because of insufficient intel.

Presidents don't get involved in operational planning but they do access all the info and intel and make the final decision as to whether to okay the operation.

Obama rejected it.

Trump okayed it, trying to make a big splash to show what a strong, decisive leader he is (translation: trying to upstage Obama and his Bin Laden success).

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

[Lurks Often]

94. Do you believe everything a reporter says or just when you agree with their politics

Any reviews are done at a much lower level by military professionals with training and experience in these sorts of operations

Do you really think any President and Cabinet members have hours every day to review the various details of every single military operation going on in the Middle East.

To put a different way, do you think the CEO of Ford has the time or training to oversee the autoworkers assembling a car or the accountants doing the books or the HR dept doing whatever it is HR people do?

[brush]

95. Do you actually believe that a low-level guy in the military ok'd that raid, and that everything...

is fake news now? Read for yourself. trump fucked up.

That shouldn't be a surprise. Look at how his first two weeks in office has gone. And look at how he's alienated the president of Mexico, Australia, and Merkel of Germany.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-officials-trump-ordered-raid-in-yemen-that-killed-us-navy-seal-was-approved-without-sufficient-intelligence-2017-2

[Lurks Often]

97. I'm curious

Did you also automatically believe the fake story about the Man who claimed mom died in Iraq after Trump's ban?

[LanternWaste]

98. You're not doing a very credible job at supporting your premise with evidence

You're not doing a very credible job at supporting your premise with evidence. Mere suppositions and the petulance of "do you also believe...?", while worthy of a third grade debate team, is far below the standard of adult conversation.

Though no doubt, you'll rationalize otherwise, regardless of your curiosity or beliefs.

[Kingofalldems]

107. I knew they would show up.

[brush]

101. Just read the link. Also try Reuters. They also have the story of the botched raid trump ok'd.

And why are you defending trump? He screwed up. No surprise there. He's screwed up how many businesses, how many bankruptcies has he had running casinos, for God's sake?

All of a sudden he stops screwing up just because he "won" the White House?

Not a chance.

Here's another link. "The Guardian" has it too. trump, Bannon and Kushner were all involved.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028583828

[Kingofalldems]

105. Too bad you don't like this story.

[LanternWaste]

99. You vague, unsupported premise is both vague and unsupported...

You vague, unsupported premise is both vague and unsupported... like a bumper sticker.

[braddy]

100. I guess you don't know much about special ops.

[SunSeeker]

54. Trump had a refugee ban clusterfuck to distract from, so no time for mission intel.

Trump needed more "winning."

Are we tired of winning yet?

[Nitram]

120. He was going for the "quick and easy" win.

Now how's that working out for him?

[PoliticAverse]

55. If he "approved" it that means someone proposed it. Who was the person responsible? n/t

[MrScorpio]

57. If this is true, this is bigger than Benghazi

The Congressional Armed Services Committees need to investigate.

[caraher]

58. Ready, Fire, Aim...

That will be Trump's method for the foreseeable future, unfortunately. Because if you ask him, he is so "smart" he has no need of intelligence.

[47of74]

103. More like Fire!

The ready and aim come only after our own forces and innocent children have been hurt or killed.

[world wide wally]

59. The only question is how many more?

[Azathoth]

60. This mango moron's term in office may end the same way Mubarak's did n/t

[MFM008]

61. Mango moron

I like it.

[wishstar]

62. Has been confirmed Pres. Obama had decided to NOT take this action

They can't blame Pres. Obama, since he had decided against it until intelligence was better etc.

Trump was sure Obama was not being aggressive enough and went ahead anyway despite Obama's doubts.

[jmg257]

73. The Pentagon wanted a moonless night, which was after trump took over

President Barack Obama’s national security aides had reviewed the plans for a risky attack on a small, heavily guarded brick home of a senior Qaeda collaborator in a mountainous village in a remote part of central Yemen. But Mr. Obama did not act because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on a moonless night and the next one would come after his term had ended.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/middleeast/donald-trump-yemen-commando-raid-questions.html

[HoneyBadger]

65. Makes me think of Vietnam and all the kids we murdered

Awful. They should get reparations.

[Mike Nelson]

66. Benghazi...

...Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!

Now, shouldn't they be screaming, "Lock him up?"

[Achilleaze]

67. #Trumpghazi - from the arrogant illegitimate Republican who is now

the freakin Republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

[Ilsa]

69. I wonder if this is why CJCS and DNI got pulled from NSC?

Maybe they told him it was too risky and they were waiting on more intel, but he didn't hear what he wanted to hear. He was too impatient and got one team member killed and others injured.

[PA Democrat]

70. Just who is advising Trump? Bet it is the Real President Bannon.

[jmg257]

72. trump fucked up a J-SOC operation that was in planning for months? What did he change?

President Trump was presented with the first of what will be many life-or-death decisions: whether to approve a commando raid that risked the lives of American Special Operations forces and foreign civilians alike.

President Barack Obama’s national security aides had reviewed the plans for a risky attack on a small, heavily guarded brick home of a senior Qaeda collaborator in a mountainous village in a remote part of central Yemen. But Mr. Obama did not act because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on a moonless night and the next one would come after his term had ended.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/middleeast/donald-trump-yemen-commando-raid-questions.html


Who the fuck in J-SOC was planning this raid without proper intel??

[Demsrule86]

74. Trump is a disaster...

and the first casualties of his hideous presidency are rolling in.

[Demsrule86]

75. Could you imagine if Obama had done something like this?

I am not in favor of war, but the only wars ever won...were won by the Democrats...the only exception being the Civil war.

[Mc Mike]

76. Smarter than the generals. Better trained than most of the military.

Etc.

[Gothmog]

77. Trump is incompetent and his stupidity killed this Seal

[bucolic_frolic]

78. If HRC had done this they'd be filing impeachment already

and the right wing noise machine would be screaming 24/7

[Squinch]

79. Kick for visibility.

[McCamy Taylor]

80. I hope trump is not counting upon the pentagon

To back him if he tries to pull a coup to stay in office

[Javaman]

82. TUBAR

Trumped up beyond all recognition.

[Botany]

83. I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me, Trump.

Can we get a Benghazi like investigation into this now?

[perdita9]

90. Anyone think there will be a congressional investigation about this?

Or will they just obsess about Benghazi again?

[DemoTex]

91. Where is Trey Gowdy-Doodie when we really need him?

Nevermind.

[wildeyed]

92. He wouldn't do his intel briefings and now Americans are dead.

This is what happens when the president has no governmental or military experience and a shoot-from-the-hip management style. He's a REALITY TV SHOW HOST! What did they THINK was going to happen

And now he has his political flunkies on the NSA? Gonna be interesting when the GOP has to explain this to the American people if we have a major terror attack

[WinkyDink]

109. Shades of Bush 43 and his PDBs of 2001.

[Orrex]

96. Am I the only cube-rat who's unable to see these dozens of daily "link to tweet" posts

[herding cats]

106. Can you see it if I post it as an image?

Link to tweet

/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

If the image isn't shown above, I'm guessing they might have twitter blocked on your network.

[Orrex]

112. Alas, twitter and most social media are blocked

Thanks for trying, though!

[WinkyDink]

108. "U.S. Navy SEAL William Ryan Owens was killed in the raid." So---"YEMEN! YEMEN!"? I thought not.

[napi21]

110. Is THIS the kind of advice the Con's buddy Flynn gives? So far I've seen that JA twice since the

election, and BOTH TIMES he was unreasonably nasty & arrogant & WRONG! Looks like another BAD PICK by the Con!

I tried to copy & paste that post by Deanna Hoak, but it's blocked. Wanted to send it to my son who's a Con supporter & in Afghanistan. >We don't talk politics because we know we're on opposite sides, but when I find stuff like this, I just email him a copy. No fighting, just info, but I know he gets the message.

[NastyRiffraff]

114. When do we hear from the Select Committee on Benghazi?

Silly question. It's still all Hillary's fault

[Nitram]

118. Since when are "military officials" allowed to comment negatively on ...

...the Commander-in-Chief's role in a military operation?

[Victor_c3]

121. I have a hunch that trump watched too many movies

I bet He thought the Navy SEALS were nearly invincible like in the movies or it'd be like an episode of "The A-Team".

I guess he didn't learn all that much from his time at the military school his dad sent him too as a misbehaving teenager...

Unfortunately real people have to die as a result of his ineptitude.

[catbyte]

123. Shit. People are already dying. If Obama had done this,

Republicans would be howling their outrage, discussing impeachment, and have at least a dozen Congressional "hearings" already scheduled. Because it's Der Drumpfenfuhrer? Crickets.

[Kingofalldems]

124. Trump tweeted during the operation. Like a tweener.

Link to tweet

[AnnieBW]

125. He didn't even bother to go to the Situation Room

He didn't even show up in the Situation Room to watch the op in real time.

[liberal N proud]

127. trump is smarter than generals

And he will tell you that without you even asking.