At the beginning of the new year, as you may recall, Donald Trump, without either alerting our allies and running the idea by Congressional leaders, gave the command to assassinate Iranian General Qassim Soleimani. At the time, as you may also remember, Donald Trump told the American people that this was absolutely necessary, as they […]
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The Trump administration finally issues its formal justification for the assassination of Iranian General Qassim Soleimani, and no mention is made of an imminent attack
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Agnes Callamard, Americans for Oversight, assassination, Chuck Todd, Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee, impeachment, international law, Iran, Justin Amash, Laura Ingraham, Lindsey Graham, Mar-a-Lago, Marco Rubio, mark Esper, National Security Advisor, Qassim Soleimani, Robert C. O'Brien, targeted killings, Tom Cotton 11 Comments
Soleimani was assassinated one week ago today and we still haven’t been shown evidence of the imminent threat
A week ago today, the U.S. military, at the direction of President Donald Trump, assassinated Iranian General Qassim Soleimani. The Trump administration told us at the time that this was absolutely necessary, as they had evidence of an “imminent attack” against U.S. forces… one which could only be stopped by eliminating the powerful Iranian leader. […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Agnes Callamard, assassination, diplomacy, Donald Trump, Doug Collins, foreign policy, imminent threat, Iran, Iraq, Mike Pompeo, Nancy Pelosi, Qassim Soleimani, revenge, self-defense, Shiite, Tammy Duckworth, targeted killings, terrorist, United Nations 29 Comments
Why take out Soleimani now?
I posted something here last night about the assassination of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani. In that post, after having said what a terrible man that Soleimani was, and acknowledging that he likely deserved his fate, I said that I found the timing suspect. Well, as some of you have written to say that you disagree […]