The Trump administration insists that it killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani to prevent an “imminent” attack on the U.S.–but President Donald Trump signed off on his assassination over six months ago.
So much for the ‘imminent threat.’
This is becoming nauseating.
I know it’s only been a few thousand years, but how long are we going to have to suffer the whims of the bloated sons of the vicious rich?
Trump is another poor little rich boy trying to play tough. I could make him weep in 8 minutes, without laying a finger on him.
Just like everything else. Everything IS as it seems.
Have yet to see a prominent journo on a major show ask why killing Soleimani meant planned attacks would grind to a halt, with the Iranians conceding absent his presence their military was toothless and castrated.
“The sky is falling. The sky is falling.”
We’re moving a lot closer to
[x] justified
[_ ] legal
[_ ] smart
Time to send Mulvaney out (where’s he been lately) to proclaim:
“We assassinate foreign leaders all the time. It’s how foreign policy and defense policy work. Get over it!”
Sounds imminent to me.
The thing is, Suleimani probably deserved killing (although I don’t rejoice in the death of any human being), but not in the public way that this maladministration went about it. If it was to be done, it should have been done so that we could say, “Who, us?” with straight faces.
Or, for Stephanie Grisham to take some questions from any journalist.
I guess he thought he saw him on 5th Avenue.
He lied. And in other news, the sun rose in the East today.
That first snow in DC was nice though. Thanks, Trump!
But, I think Trump is incapable of ordering something like this - someone’s death , something he considers so awesome that he can do without getting in trouble because he’s president - without letting the country and the world know that it was he, Donald J. Trump, who issued the order as 45th President of the United States to do this really cool thing.
And then wait for the cheers and applause and adulation.
ETTD…Never forget.
With Trump in White House, every day is an imminent threat
Intel agencies probably have solid info on a dozen or more foreign terrorist leaders that have both killed U.S. soldiers and citizens, and are likely planning on continuing to do so. They’re scattered across several nations, and killing all of them would cause a helluva lot more of a ruckus than Suleimani’s assassination. The blowback would be vociferous. So, we don’t do it. We tolerate some losses. We can’t survive and cope if every damned problem constitutes a bright red line that can’t be crossed. Suleimani’s killing was selective, not imperative.
And Kommeni has made his decision to bury Trump in seven months by either cyber interfering in our elections or otherwise.