Tonight (Tuesday) on CNN, a military expert said that the U. S. certainly knew the ballistic missile sites in Iran for attacking the bases in Iraq were being prepared for launch hours before the attacks today, thus that the U. S. could have preemptively struck those sites but didn’t, which indicates president Trump didn’t want to attack first across the border, had prepared the airbases in Iraq for the attacks expected, and wants the leverage of being able to say “we owe you one” coming sooner or later.