Despite warnings from the Trump administration about an imminent attack by Iran or its proxies against American allies and forces, and the attack against oil tankers that followed, the liberal media has been claiming the threat from Iran was being overblown by an administration itching for a war.
During an interview with ABC's chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz for This Week, former Army General David Petraeus pushed back and dismantled their fear mongering.
On Wednesday, Raddatz had suggested that the President was on the verge of possibly getting the U.S. into another war based on "Faulty" intelligence reports, and equated it to the Iraq War.
Petraeus pointed out that Trump's assessment was correct in that more troops would be needed because the population and size of Iran were far greater than that of Iraq.
RADDATZ: You've seen the reports about war planning and certainly you go on both ends when you do war planning, I would say, 120,000 is possible.
The truth is, let's remember that Iran is a country that has a population that's three-times the size of Iraq when we invaded it and a land mass that's three to four-times the size of Iraq as well.
No, in Iraq there was a real momentum to go to war with Iraq and there was intelligence, however flawed it turned out to be, that was generally assumed to be credible by the policymakers.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/05/19/gen-petraeus-destroys-abc-fear-mongering-trump-not-war-iran?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RJd1ltUmhPRFprTldRMSIsInQiOiJBcEF4c2pwVStZY2g3QlA1czY4VFVQdW5rdEV0YysxblNySkRpQUdvdWRoejdDSDB6d1RzdGphRGpKdVwv
During an interview with ABC's chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz for This Week, former Army General David Petraeus pushed back and dismantled their fear mongering.
On Wednesday, Raddatz had suggested that the President was on the verge of possibly getting the U.S. into another war based on "Faulty" intelligence reports, and equated it to the Iraq War.
Petraeus pointed out that Trump's assessment was correct in that more troops would be needed because the population and size of Iran were far greater than that of Iraq.
RADDATZ: You've seen the reports about war planning and certainly you go on both ends when you do war planning, I would say, 120,000 is possible.
The truth is, let's remember that Iran is a country that has a population that's three-times the size of Iraq when we invaded it and a land mass that's three to four-times the size of Iraq as well.
No, in Iraq there was a real momentum to go to war with Iraq and there was intelligence, however flawed it turned out to be, that was generally assumed to be credible by the policymakers.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/05/19/gen-petraeus-destroys-abc-fear-mongering-trump-not-war-iran?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RJd1ltUmhPRFprTldRMSIsInQiOiJBcEF4c2pwVStZY2g3QlA1czY4VFVQdW5rdEV0YysxblNySkRpQUdvdWRoejdDSDB6d1RzdGphRGpKdVwv
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