Trump's story about asking the military, with minutes to spare, about casualties in undertaking a retaliation raid on Iran, just does not have the ring of truth to it. Not only would his briefing have estimated Iranian casualties but would have contained an assessment of possible damage inflicted on our own troops in Iraq in response to such an attack. That the attack on Iran would have imperiled thousands of our men in Iraq might have appeared as a footnote in the assessment provided to Trump, by the military, and Trump's aides only got around to reading it just minutes before the scheduled attack. The fact that a large number of our own casualties might have a major effect on the 2020 election was probably not lost on Trump's people.
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