Secretary of State Marco Rubio got into a heated conversation with Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan after she tried to pin him down on why the Trump administration attacked Iran, now.
“Weaponization ambitions,” is the new catch phrase for the Trump administration to replace the old, tired WMD excuse.
BRENNAN: Let me follow up on a phrase you just word, weaponization ambitions. Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization?
RUBIO: That’s irrelevant. I think that question being asked in the media, that’s an irrelevant question. They have everything they need to build a weapon.
BRENNAN: No, that is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. You know that.
RUBIO: No, it’s not.
BRENNAN: Yes, it was.
RUBIO: No, it’s not.
RUBIO: That the political decision had not been made.
RUBIO: Well, I know that better than you know that. And I know that that’s not the case. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
RUBIO: I’m asking when the order was given.
Rubio rattles off a list of undesirables that echoed Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush in the runup to the Iraq war. Those reasons don’t even come close for Trump to bomb Iran.
