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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:53 AM Jun 2019

Pence: 'We're not convinced' downing of drone was 'authorized at the highest levels'

Source: The Hill


BY ZACK BUDRYK - 06/23/19 09:35 AM EDT

Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that the U.S. still doubts whether the downing of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone had been authorized by Iran's leadership.

“The president … had doubt as to whether the downing of our unmanned aircraft was authorized at the highest levels,” Pence told CNN’s Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." “We’re not convinced it was authorized at the highest levels.”

President Trump reportedly cancelled a retaliatory strike on Iran at the last minute last week, and tweeted that he decided it would be disproportionate upon learning it would likely cost 150 lives.

“This is a president who’s always going to count the cost,” Pence told Tapper on Sunday. “The president looked at the potential loss of human life and concluded that was not proportionate.”



Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/449903-pence-were-not-convinced-downing-of-drone-was-authorized-at-the

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Pence: 'We're not convinced' downing of drone was 'authorized at the highest levels' (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2019 OP
Oh, what a crock! Scarsdale Jun 2019 #1
He is the other half of Liars Incorporated. olegramps Jun 2019 #10
Pence's Saturday confessions to his priest must be epic Submariner Jun 2019 #2
Pence's confessions are probably about his lustful thoughts... hunter Jun 2019 #6
If he were a Catholic he still wouldn't confess anything. LiberalFighter Jun 2019 #7
Pence's job - doing damage control. Too late for that Pencey boy. llmart Jun 2019 #3
Ha! paleotn Jun 2019 #4
In other words, calguy Jun 2019 #5
How do they know the downing wasn't at the behest of the highest authority? LiberalFighter Jun 2019 #8
Pence lied through the whole interview left-of-center2012 Jun 2019 #9
No limit to the duplicity of Pence LiberalLovinLug Jun 2019 #11
It was a clerical error dalton99a Jun 2019 #12
I am not convinced Pence is a real person. yellowcanine Jun 2019 #13

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
1. Oh, what a crock!
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:04 AM
Jun 2019

Putin told him to stop, he could care less how many lives are lost. How about the lives lost in these camps at our borders? Pence is a fake Christian. tRump is a fake president, who has no idea what the HELL he is doing. He will blunder us all into world war 111. Hey, his "kids" will not have to serve, so why not.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
10. He is the other half of Liars Incorporated.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 12:56 PM
Jun 2019

It doesn't matter because their braindead constituency will believe anything they tell them. If this presidency was a novel, it so absolutely beyond the pale that no publisher would publish it.

Submariner

(12,485 posts)
2. Pence's Saturday confessions to his priest must be epic
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:24 AM
Jun 2019

Priest: How many times did you have to lie this week to cover up for the jerk off you work for?

Mikey: So many i have lost count. Please forgive father for I have sinned....and I can't stop lying working for this guy.

Priest: You're going to hell Mikey.

hunter

(38,264 posts)
6. Pence's confessions are probably about his lustful thoughts...
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 11:39 AM
Jun 2019

...much enjoyed by him and his confessor, who are both going to hell.



llmart

(15,502 posts)
3. Pence's job - doing damage control. Too late for that Pencey boy.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 10:58 AM
Jun 2019

What a tool. Does he even think we believe that his boss gives one whit about loss of life?

Tell that to the children in the cages. Or their parents.

This guy needs to f*** off.

paleotn

(17,781 posts)
4. Ha!
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 11:16 AM
Jun 2019

The thing about theocratic dictatorships is nothing of any significance is ever done without say so. And that say so flows down from the top.

This won't play well with some of the followers. Watch for puzzled head scratching amongst the magats. Bolton is so pissed his upper lip caterpillar is vibrating.

calguy

(5,224 posts)
5. In other words,
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 11:22 AM
Jun 2019

Iran called our bluff. We're scared shitless. We don't have a clue what to. We're just trying to bullshit our way out of this.

LiberalFighter

(50,504 posts)
8. How do they know the downing wasn't at the behest of the highest authority?
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 12:31 PM
Jun 2019

Being god. If they truly believe in god wouldn't god have NOT allowed it to happen if he didn't want it to?

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
9. Pence lied through the whole interview
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 12:34 PM
Jun 2019

Several times Trapper almost broke out in laughter at Pence's evasions.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
11. No limit to the duplicity of Pence
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 02:24 PM
Jun 2019

He's sold his soul to the Devil a long time ago. He has no compass, no ethics, no morals.

Apparently he was one of the voices in the room that was pushing for an Iranian bombing campaign, along with Bolton and Pompeo. As soon as Trump changes his mind, after hearing the voices from the more libertarian anti world police voices like Tucker who made clear to him it may affect him being re-elected, Pence turns on a dime to follow his meal ticket dotard and pretends to have been on the same page all along.

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