What is an oath? An oath is a promise. Those taking an oath are selected, we are told, on the basis of public trust, that they are of sufficient character that the oath they take will be the oath they keep.
Sometimes the oathtaker is elected, sometimes chosen, sometimes the position of authority and public trust was not one sought but one "thrust" upon that "oathkeeper" out of economic necessity.
What Americans have learned is that those who take oaths and those who keep them are seldom the same folks. "Oaths" seem to come with more than a bit of "wiggle-room."
Here is what an oath sounds like to a citizen:
"I (state your name) promise to protect and defend the constitution of the United States and to perform my duties with honor....."This could be a judge, a soldier, a dog warden, even a police officer. The problem of late has been that those who take oaths seem to have held what we term "mental reservations and evasions" while taking their oaths.
They think they swore to "weasel word" oaths.
"I, (state your name or alias), promise to protect and defend my own ass and screw the rest of you...."
Comment: It crashed, but some US official has inside info that there was little damage. Or was it was shot down cause it malfunctioned? Who's lying? Who would benefit, Iran, or the US to lie about the incident?
In the Military, there is a practice called probing. What you do is, go to different areas of an enemies defensive perimeter and try and find the easiest, weakest route into it.
Further: "..will not be limited to Iran's borders." Can be used as a good excuse to make a false flag attack anywhere in the world. And the quote comes from an unnamed source. Did anyone catch the "Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network" stating such things or is this an accusation put on by our Western Media?