Qasem Soleimani only planned attacks, he didn't actually do them...
Planning and organizing attacks on Americans is an act of war, which will get you painted across the tarmac so long as Donald Trump is CIC.
Reuters Confirms that Soleimani was engaging in Acts of War against the US prior to that unpleasantness with the drone.
Two weeks before the October meeting, Soleimani ordered Iranian Revolutionary Guards to move more sophisticated weapons – such as Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired missiles that could bring down helicopters – to Iraq through two border crossings, the militia commanders and Iraqi security sources told Reuters.
At the Baghdad villa, Soleimani told the assembled commanders to form a new militia group of low-profile paramilitaries – unknown to the United States – who could carry out rocket attacks on Americans housed at Iraqi military bases. He ordered Kataib Hezbollah – a force founded by Muhandis and trained in Iran – to direct the new plan, said the militia sources briefed on the meetings.
Before the attacks, the U.S. intelligence community had reason to believe that Soleimani was involved in “late stage” planning to strike Americans in multiple countries, including Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, U.S. officials told Reuters Friday on condition of anonymity. One senior U.S. official said Soleimani had supplied advanced weaponry to Kataib Hezbollah.
Yeah, that's more than enough for a Code Red.
An American interpreter was killed in a militia rocket attack on a U.S. base in Kirkuk on December 27. Soleimani’s plan in October was beginning to be implemented, hopefully Trump's decisive action nipped it in the bud.
Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fully onboard with the decision to juice Soleimani, insisting that the
“size, scale, and scope” of the recent threat justified smoking him. A counterfactual for Trump’s critics on this, then: Is there
anything Soleimani could have done to warrant targeting him, at any point?
Endless variants of "Orange Man Bad!" begin to bore
