The U.S. military’s official justification of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani contradicts president Trump’s claims that the Iranian general posed an “imminent” threat to American lives
The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was “imminent” or not, & was my team in agreement. The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn’t really matter because of his horrible past!The official military justification, provided to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as required by law, makes no attempt to substantiate the president’s claims of imminence.
Trump, the report makes plain, “directed this action in response to an escalating series of attacks in preceding months byand Iran-backed militias” on U.S. forces and interests in the region. Rationalizing the attack under international law, the report in fact rejects that an imminent threat was required to justify assassinating Soliemani.
The official response has Democrats fuming. “The administration’s explanation in this report makes no mention of any imminent threat and shows that the justification the President offered to the American people was false, plain and simple,” said committee chair Rep. Eliot Engel . Engel further called the document’s attempt to justify the attack on the Iranian leader by citing the Iraq War authorization of 2002 “absurd,” and blasted the entire document as a “spurious, after-the-fact explanation.
The strike on Soleimani brought the United States and Iran to the brink of all out war. The assassination was answered by an Iranian missile barrage on U.S. targets in Iraq. That attack left more than 100 American service members with A Ukrainian passenger jet taking off from Tehran was also downed by Iran, a fatal mistake in the fog of war, killing 176.
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