It's Draft Time: Impeachment Edition

[Dill]

(02-20-2017, 05:44 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Seems we had some pretty good non-target body counts with the last admin.  14 people returning from a wedding in Yemen?  Too late to impeach?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-strikes_us_561fafe2e4b028dd7ea6c4ff

And i honestly haven't seen it, and I've looked, but I don't see any stories that say Trump went against recommendations.

Were any of those people returning from that wedding U.S. citizens?   No? 

Body count of bodies that count=0.

I said that Trump blows off briefings and has dissed the intel community (e.g., comparing them to Nazis).
I did not say he went against recommendations. The Pentagon "ok'd" the Yemeni raid, but you have to understand that such oks are not based upon real time intel. The decision is deferred to the president, who must decide upon conditions given at the moment he says go for it, not conditions 10 or 24 hours prior.  

Though since you allude to the Yemen raid, it brings up a clear difference with Obama, who respected intel and paid attention during briefings.  OBAMA SAID NO GO. Trump said "F*** Yea!"

Now two Americans are dead, plus a 70 million dollar Osprey, no intel resulted, and Yemen has revised its cooperation with the US, apparently preventing any further such ground operations. A policy option has been removed from the table. 

So of course the raid was a SUCCESS by Trump standards, but not by anyone else's.

Back to my original point, Trump's failure to do his homework, to put due diligence into his foreign decisions involving military action, could lead to his removal from office if it costs US lives.  Especially if it happens more than once, becomes a pattern.  

If he attempts to scale back and moderate his foreign policy, he will still make egregious policy mistakes when circumstances force him to act, lacking the competence and knowledge of Obama or Clinton, and unwilling to learn on the job.