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Trump wins the appeasement award with his obsequious 'I don't know why they would....' while standing hunched over next to Putin in Helsinki.'

And then there was no response from Trump other than to lie to us, again

11 U.S. troops needed treatment after Iranian missile attack, Pentagon says
By Louisa Loveluck, Dan Lamothe and Alex Horton

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/17/americans-injured-iran-missile-attack/

BAGHDAD — Eleven U.S. military personnel required medical treatment outside Iraq after Iranian missile strikes, defense officials said, reversing earlier assurances from President Trump and the Pentagon that there had been no American casualties.

Eight of the service members are being assessed for concussion-like symptoms after the blasts, said Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokesman. Three others sought behavioral-health treatment to cope with the bombardment, in which ballistic missiles launched from Iran crashed in waves into Ain al-Asad air base west of Baghdad on Jan. 8, Hoffman said in an interview Friday.

Three of the service members left on a regularly scheduled flight to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait on Jan. 10, with the rest leaving Wednesday on a flight to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, Hoffman said. The destinations were determined based on when their symptoms manifested and when planes were scheduled, he said.

Although there was some speculation that the attacks were designed to avoid casualties, commanders at the base say they think the strikes were intended to kill U.S. personnel.