US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was interviewed on CBS' Face The Nation with host Margaret Brennan on Sunday.
Pompeo told Brennan that it was a „collective decision“ to kill the Iranian commander and that it was the „right decision.“
„He not only caused enormous death and destruction throughout the region, killed hundreds of Americans over the years, but had done so in the past couple of days, killed an American on December 27. We watched him continue to actively build-out for what was going to be a significant attack. That’s what we believed and we made the right decision,“ he told Brennan.
report from Saturday that said that the strike on Soleimani was presented on a menu of options, and was meant to be an extreme possibility meant to make the other choices seem more palatable. The report said top military officials were „stunned.“that the US airstrike in which the general was killed in Iraq was meant to „stop a war.“
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