Donald Trump

The orders have been delegated down to the field commanders.

It was automatic.

And in fact, it bared to be true, because in fact, the.

Within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to launch.

In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.

The third is the assessment that was made.

that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.

And so the president made the very wise decision.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.

And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.

And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't.

There absolutely was an imminent threat.

And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us.

And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.

Because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked, and by someone else, Israel attacked them, they hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths.

We went proactively in a defensive way.

President Barack Hussein Obama, that was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document.

They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago and they would have used them.

This was our last best chance to strike what we're doing right now and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime.