Pence says Raddatz mischaracterized his views by quoting him nearly verbatim

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/mike-pence-syria-stance-martha-raddatz-229535?cmpid=sf

Pence:

“ provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.”

Raddatz:

"He said provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength and that if Russia continues to be involved in air strikes along with the Syrian government forces of Assad, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike the military targets of the Assad regime."

Raddatz reworded his "barbaric attack on Civilians of Aleppo" to "air strikes with the Syrian government forces of Assad" since those barbaric attacks on Civilians of Aleppo are airstrikes.



Pence said “Well, I think Martha Raddatz just mischaracterized the statement that I made in my debate a week ago. I was asked a question about Aleppo,” Pence said. “The question that was asked by [moderator Elaine Quijano] in our debate had to do with the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo... Last night, Martha conflated those into a larger question about Russian provocation, Russian aggression"

Let's see what was said last night...


"So this next question comes through social media through Facebook. Diane from Pennsylvania asks, if you were president, what would you do about Syria and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo? Isn’t it a lot like the Holocaust when the U.S. waited too long before we helped?"

"Mr. Trump, let me repeat the question. If you were president... what would you do about Syria and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo? "