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.

I always wonder when America acts against another country where the intelligence came from and why the administration believed it. We blew up a powdered milk factory and the workers inside it because Israel said it was a chemical weapons factory. The administration went after Saddam Hussein because Vice President Cheney leaned on CIA analysis people to make a report saying Iraq had chemical and biologic weapons and was trying to build nuclear ones. None of it was true and some of the American media showed it wasn’t true. The European intelligence agencies said Iraq didn’t have any such weapons. The only country agreeing with the analysis was Israel who had been upset since Desert Storm didn’t do regime change.

Remember the students being mistreated and held as hostage in Grenada? The students weren’t aware of problems until our troops landed, so where did Reagan get the information? Over 3,000 bronze stars were given to people in the Pentagon who never left the building. Why? Was it to keep them quiet? I never heard any intelligence agency saying that the students were in danger, only White House speakers. Was it a coincidence that the invasion occurred immediately after 250 troops were killed in Lebanon?

So where did Trump suddenly get information he acted on to kill a man who is like Iran’s Secretary of Defense on the eve of his impeachment trial? It benefits Putin who gains influence in Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Everything Donald Trump has done in his life is to make him look good or to divert attention from something bad he has done. He has the greatest ego, is the biggest liar, and the most paranoid of any President we have ever had, so we are justified in wondering why now. Secretary of State Pompeo was on the Sunday Morning shows and would only say we have information but he wouldn’t say what it is. Sounds suspicious to me.

Let’s assume B.J. Warner made a lot of money but spent more than was made. After getting professional help all of B.J.’s accounts and assets were taken over by the company. After a great deal of negotiations, the company and B.J. come together in an agreement allowing B.J. to get the frozen accounts and assets back. However, B.J. didn’t keep the money but gave it to others. B.J. complied with the agreement on spending as the company wanted but didn’t use the money as the company intended. According to B.J.s thinking of August 11, when the company returned B.J.s money it was a gift from them and not B.J.s own money being released.

The long analogy is to explain how Trump and the other warmongers explain releasing of Iran’s confiscated funds. Granted some of the money went to organizations we didn’t approve of, but it did stop the problem of Iran building a nuclear bomb and that was the purpose. All the countries freed up Iran’s own funds and kept the interest those funds had generated. Much of those funds we had kept were for the purchase of fighter planes the Shaw had paid for but not delivered. Carter froze all the funds in our banks. The other countries froze the funds in response to the upgrading of nuclear fuels. No war was made against Iran.

Just as the B.J. analogy, nobody GAVE Iran money. Trump and others have misinformed and lied to get the uninformed and naive excited about having a disastrous war with Iran. Trump satisfied the warmongers by abrogating the agreement and baiting Iran. He is trying to start a war that will not stay there but will come home. Saddam found killing hundreds of thousands just means more want to die to beat the enemy.

Why does the administration not want to get into a war with Iran? How many readers remember the Iraq-Iran War? Saddam finally decided he couldn’t win after killing thousands of Iranians. Iraq set up a thick mine field in front of their trenches after the Iranians had stopped the Iraqi invasion. Iran didn’t want to lose more soldiers in trying to kick out the Iraqi troops so they sent waves of kids in to blow up the mines with their feet. After them were old civilians, followed by their regular soldiers, and then their elite guards.

The Iraqis used up their massive supply of artillery shells, mortar bombs, and ammunition. Iranians kept coming so the Iraqis fled before being overrun. Their religion was stronger than bullets and mines.

Do you think our naval commanders are going to blow up attacking Iranian missile boats full of babies and small kids? Imagine seeing parts of kids flying through the air on the 5:30 news! A ground attack is absolutely out and we are not going to go after their mobile missile launchers setting in hospital or orphanage yards. The world criticized Syria for doing the same thing. We lambasted Russia for shooting down an airliner in Ukraine but few of us remember we shot down an Iranian airliner, raining people into the Persian Gulf, several years ago. We blamed the Iranian government for letting them fly down an international air route.

The Navy calls the Persian Gulf a bathtub because it is too small an area for a battle group to operate safely. The Iranians have hundreds of anti-ship missiles that would give our Navy a very few minutes to just reduce the number of incoming missiles. The Iranians don’t blink to threats. Who will make the first mistake?