I’ll never understand you warmongers.
Lame deflection.
He wasn’t a terrorist leader. You just admitted to being a dupe. Stop it.
Yes, he was. He led a group designated as a terrorist organization.
The fact you love him doesn’t change that.
Name the terrorist group that Soleimani was the leader of. Good lord, man, a google search will tell you who he was. The was the leader of an elite Iranian military group - the equivalent of the leader of the Seals. Soleimani was a hero to his people, and now Trump has elevated him to matryr status.
When people correct your lies about Soleimani, it is not because we're his fans, but because
FACTS MATTER, and because this President and his followers are all just trying to make up shit as they go along. Trump has been trying to downplay the incredible stupidity of his actions by celebrating his death, but like Obi Wan Kanobi, when you strike him down, he becomes much more powerful as a matryr than he was a living leader.
Trump and Pompeo are also downplaying getting the USA tossed out of Iraq, but that's really happening too. Iraq won't be the only country you're "invited to leave". Your Middle Eastern allies know that terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East will be looking to attack Americans. And when that happens, their people will become "collateral damage", just like all those poor people on the Ukranian airliner who died.
More Americans have died in the wars spawned by 9/11, than died on 9/11. But what is never mentioned by Americans is that more than 100,000 Iraqis have died, and millions have been displaced in the power vaccuum ISIS wars, or been displaced by attempts to get rid of Assad in Syria.
And here's Trump, pushing for "regime change" in Iran. What does he expect will replace the Mullahs? Did he learn nothing from Iraq or the Arab Spring? In the 1950's and 1960's, when the CIA was pulling off all these regime changes, they had a "government in exile" waiting to go in and replace the old regime. These new governments were right wing authoritarian governments and were some of the most brutal and repressive regimes in history, but they weren't commies, by God.
W's big mistake in Iraq was he "lost the peace". He had no plan for what would happen after Saddam Hussein was defeated. None. The people were hungry, thirsty, broke, and Bagdhad infrastructure was in ruins not functioning when the Americans defeats Saddam's army. With no peace plan in place Bagdhadi's had no food, no water, no jobs, and no infrastructure. The Americans seemed to think that life would just go on in a large capital city with no government, no water, no food, no jobs, and no money.
Republicans have roundly criticized the Obama Administration for not taking control of the Arab Spring, and getting more "American friendly" governments in Egypt and Libya. Obama left the Egyptians and Libyans to their own devices and Republicans are still screaming about it, even though they refused to authorize American military action in Syria, and Obama respected that vote.
The current government of Afghanistan isn't strong enough to stand on its own. Once the last of the NATO forces leave, it will be as if you were never there, excited the hatred the "War on Terror" has engendered will live on, and poison relations between the Middle East and the West, for generations as yet upborn, as did the Crusades before them.
And for all of the killing and destruction of the last 20 years, the War on Terror has created MORE terrorists than there were when you started. The USA has utterly squandered all of the international good will the world gave you after 9/11, and now the world considers the USA to be the most dangerous country in the world, and the one most likely to start WWIII.