What do we know about President Trump killing Iran’s General Soleimani? Soleimani could be considered Iran’s Secretary of Defense because of his status and responsibility. After all the lies and confusion put forth by the administration, we may now know all the truth. First Trump decided to kill the Iranian last summer, not last week as he said. No embassy was in immediate danger and definitely not four as he said. Secretary of State Pompeo actually said the reason was Soleimani was within fifty miles of the Embassy. That’s the silliest reason since he had often been driven past the Embassy. The Secretary of Defense knows of no immediate threat to any of our Embassies. No administration person publicly said the impeachment was involved.

Why is this strike different than Bin Laden or any of the hundreds of drone hits? Those were all stateless individuals, meaning they were not attached to any country. Killing Soleimani is the same as their killing one of the White House Advisors or Generals. When an upper level person is killed on purpose, that is a declaration of war. Trump said Soleimani was a terrorist but their stated criteria of a terrorist is the same as what some of our armed forces and intelligence people do many times each year. Does that mean our people should be targets of other countries’ people we have killed?

Is it over? I doubt it. The missiles hitting our people on an Iraqi base were for the people. There is probably over a hundred ways to really hurt us and we wouldn’t know who did it or why. I bet Iran will be blamed for anything other than a natural disaster.