Well done!

This has been a masterful display on the part of Donald Trump and a shameful one on the parts of democrats and the left wing media. Once more he plays chess to their checkers.

“Assassination!” spits Chris Matthews.

Trump is on the verge of a 9-11 attack on Iran!, screams Ed Markey

“This could very well be war!” cries Elliot Engel

“Endless war!” wails Chuck Schumer

NY Times: Soleimani is like Martin Luther King!

Richard Engel of NBC is scared to death that Trump might taunt Iran

That jerk Seth Moulton: “Maybe Trump will kill Putin next!”

Iran mounted an attack in response to the termination of Soleimani – a very meager one. The military knew it was coming

U.S. military officials were warned about Iran’s pending ballistic missile strike “when the air defense systems went active” shortly before the attack was launched, a U.S. official in Baghdad told Fox News on Wednesday.

U.S. intelligence picked up “chatter” from Iran and inside Iraq, tipping off American forces to a strike around 1:30 a.m. local time — or 5:30 p.m. ET. Soon after, Iran launched more than a dozen short-range ballistic missiles into Iraq, striking military bases housing American and coalition troops.

Officials said there were no reported casualties.

Besides, they told us. The Iranians told the Iraqis who told us.

A senior U.S. official told Fox News that Iranian officials warned Iraq about the pending missile attack because Tehran did not want to kill Iraqi forces. Some Iraqi forces also warned their American counterparts, however, the U.S. had already known “for hours” that Iran was planning to launch the attack.

“That warning was not a surprise to us,” the U.S. official added. “We already knew it was coming.”

So they cleared out the bases and waited. Fifteen missiles fired, 4 failed and the damage was relatively minor.

Among all the screams to de-escalate, Trump was already de-escalating

Pentagon officials told Fox News the advance warning of the Iranian missile attack is the reason Defense Secretary Mark Esper held a hasty press conference Tuesday afternoon. He said he wanted to offer Iran an off-ramp talk “without preconditions,” he told reporters.

This morning Iran claims it wants no more escalation.

This all appears almost choreographed. Iran knows Soleimani was a bad ass and Trump was right to end him but Iran needed to save face. Trump granted them the opportunity to do that- a weak response causing no casualties and not much damage and everyone seems content- at least so far.

A fair trade. Well done.

All while the media and the left wing media were rooting for Trump to fail.

DrJohn

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