woodguru wrote:
So here we have the secretary of defence saying he saw no evidence of an eminent threat...
This is a big deal, that was not defense it was an act of war. Given the lack of credibility in regards to the lack of eminent threat prevention many who subscribe to the Geneva Convention and the rules civilized countries play by it was a war crime. Then given the lack of real reasons to do this when he did, it forced the accidental error that is a result of being in a retaliatory mode in response to an act of war.
So here we have the secretary of defence saying he... (
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He had just orchestrated an attack on our embassy in Bagdad. He had previously been responsible for many terrorist acts killing Americans among people of other nations. Should we excuse him because he might, for some inconceivable reason change his spots and become an upstanding human being?
Soleimani was involved in the still-unpunished bombing of the Israeli embassy in 1992 and the even bigger AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
His Houthi War in Yemen. Yemen’s a miserable place with massive demographic and resource problems. Soleimani used that as the perfect launch pad to attack Saudi Arabia.
Soleimani wasn’t just a foreign-ops guy, he was also the chief thug back home in Iran, urging vicious crushing of student protests.
Unprovoked rocket assaults on Israel.
Soleimani innovation of the EFP. EFPs killed at least 196 U.S. troops and wounded nearly 900 between 2005 and 2011. A high number of amputations throughout the Iraqi war were the direct result of the weapons.
Our government estimates that he was responsible for the killing of more than 600 U.S. troops during the fighting in Iraq.
Soleimani orchestrated twin bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing 224 innocents, mostly Africans who either worked at the facilities or were passers by. 4,000 more were injured. Al Qaida was involved in carrying them out, but Soleimani orchestrated them.
In 1996, Soleimani sent in a truck bomb to blow up the Khobar Towers to advance Iran’s interests. Iran had a problem with the U.S. teaming up with the Saudis to fortify the nation from extremist attacks. Twenty mostly American troops were killed and nearly 500 were injured.
In 1983, Soleiman was involved in the Beirut barracks bombing. Acting in the mullah regime’s interests, his idea was to drive U.S. forces out through use of Iran’s little pawn, Hezb’allah, which grew in power after the mass attack while Iran itself succeeded in getting the Iran’s aims enacted.
He was behind the 2005 bomb murder of Lebanon’s beloved president, Rafik Hariri.
Waiting for proof that he was going to strike again would be like complaining someone took out a mass shooter after he walked around in crowd and periodically shot someone. The complaint being that after the 25th person was shot, the shooter was killed without PROOF he would have killed a 26th or more.