Pete Buttigieg is facing intense backlash for suggesting that America's "tit for tat" with Iran responsible for downed airplane


Buttigieg's response to the latest developments appears to place blame on both the U.S. and Iran for Iran's accidental firing.

"Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat," Buttigieg tweeted. "My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all 176 souls lost aboard this flight."


Buttigieg writes “Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all 176 souls lost aboard this flight.”
Another deranged Democrat. He’s blaming America and he’s blaming Trump for defending America after Iran killed an American contractor in a rocket attack in Iraq two weeks ago, as I explained earlier today. Iran was the ones who fired missiles at us on Tuesday after we retaliated to keep them from blowing up the the embassy and killing more Americans. Iran was the one who thought a Boeing 737 was a freaking missile and shot it down. None of this is our fault and any suggestion that it was should not be tolerated. Buttigieg should be laughed off the stage and treated like a loon at their next Dem debate.
"Uh, Pete, they weren’t 'caught in the middle.' They were shot down BY IRAN. Military incompetence by the leading state sponsor of terrorism. Just because Dems hate Trump doesn’t justify false equivalence w/ Iran. Soleimani was a brutal terrorist who killed hundreds of Americans," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reacted.
"Nope. Nope. Nope," The Dispatch senior editor David French hit back. "Iran launched a missile strike against our own troops, and then blundered by shooting down a civilian airliner when it wasn't even under attack. That's the story. This is on Iran."


He wasn’t the only one. Others had a few things to say about this as well:

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