Now the Left will mourn him all the more.
“Pentagon says Qassem Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers,” by Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, January 3, 2020:
Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military general who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq on Thursday, was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
“General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,” the Pentagon said. “He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months — including the attack on December 27th — culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.”
The Department of Defense added that the strike against Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force, the extraterritorial wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”
President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced last spring that the State Department was designating the IRGC a “foreign terrorist organization,” following months of speculation that the administration was considering blacklisting the most powerful branch of the country’s armed forces. Though the State Department has long labeled the Iranian regime the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, it had never before classified an element of a foreign government as a terrorist group, and the IRGC joined a list including al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamic State, and Boko Haram….
barbaracvm1 says
How many innocent women and children is he responsible for in just this region?
Louis Brown says
This is not good. The new rule of thumb needs to be , for every US soldier killed by Iran’s proxies American will bomb 50 of Iran’s crucial infrastructures including , but not limited to ; airports, bridges, Oil and gas refineries, water and oil pipelines, factories, financial centers etc.. So if 20 US soldiers are killed Iran will be sent back to 6,000 years BC .
Sons of Liberty says
This jihadist should have been taken out years ago , Thanks , President Trump for eliminating another evil jihadist demon . This idiot thought he could roam around killing Americans and get away with it ? Well, not with President Trump ! Iran take note , you are not dealing with traitor Obama anymore.
Chrissie says
I do like a lot of the things Trump does and says…but in this matter: What actually are Americans doing in all sort of sovereign states all over the world, and without an international mandate???. For the Iraquis, things would have been much better with Saddam Hussein…but then maybe not for the Americans…
Might be a good idea leaving other nations alone…when not directly attacked. And then again: Who would directly attack the USA…for now? In all earnest. That would be suicide.
CogitoErgoSum says
What was an Iranian General doing in Iraq? They’ve got their hands in other places they don’t belong as well.
mortimer says
Very good question from CES. What was he doing in a foreign country designing attacks against Iranians and their allies. He had no right to be there. Iraq did not invite him to make war in their country. The attack on him was justified.
Nemeth says
He was invited in by the Iraqi’s in 2014 to help them defeat ISIS who threatened to overwhelm Baghdad
Patrick B. Ludwig says
He was asked in by the shiite and legitimate government of Irak.
Unlike the US army.
Wellington says
Disagree, Chrissie. America has troops stationed all over the world not because America wants more territory but because most of the world doesn’t work. Indeed, most of the world is an effed-up mess (e.g., hey, who looks at South America or Africa and says ‘that’s a continent that works?”) and the great irony here is that America was founded to get away from the rest of the world but once it became the great power (inevitable as the shrewdest foreign observer of America, Alexis de Tocqueville, saw so clearly) it had no choice but to come to the rescue of the world time and time again—WWI, WWII, the Cold War, dealing with the massively dysfunctional Islamic world, etc.
And things would not have been better for the Iraqis if Saddam Hussein had remained in power—but more importantly not in America’s or the West’s best interests. He was a megalomaniac out of control, slaughtering his own people, and not observing the truce terms of the 1991 Gulf War. Moreover, he was playing footsie with the world respecting any WMDs he might still have (and which every major intelligence agency on the planet thought was the case). Bush 43 had to take this evil man out (and his sons). Where Bush erred, grievously so, was in thinking that democracy could be implanted in yet another sorry-ass Islamic nation. Bush after having SH removed from power should have looked around for a Mubarak type from the Iraqi military to run things and who would either have been pro-American or at least neutral.
As for who would directly attack America, uh, this happened on 9/11 and furtively by demographic jihad to the present because too many non-Muslim Americans have failed even to this very day to understand how nefarious Mo’s creed really is.
gravenimage says
+1
Hoppla says
Wellington says, Alexis de Tocqueville, saw so clearly) it had no choice but to come to the rescue of the world time and time again—WWI, WWII, the Cold War, dealing with the massively dysfunctional Islamic world, etc. Why don’t we start and rescue our own country who is slowly becoming a third world banana republic and ruled by everyone but the people.. If the Islamic world is so massively dysfunctional why do we bring in millions after millions of Muslims since George Herbert Walker Bush implemented the new world order and replace western culture with Islam. No country ever asked us to be rescued it’s the ruling class that orders the military to rescue their investments in the countries we occupy. All the so called rescued dislike the ugly Americans especially the English who still believe we are their colony. Time for us to make appointments with the great American Psychiatrists and stop dumping all the trillions of dollars for the rescued countries, money does not buy us love but a expensive prostitute.
Wellington says
I agree, Hoppla, that America trying to rescue the world is a burden to America but where I don’t agree with you is that we should have never tried.
I mean are you against us getting involved in WWI, WWII, the Cold War, with the Marshall Plan, with the Berlin Airlift, with the formation of NATO, with a megalomaniac like Saddam Hussein potentially take over not only Kuwait but the Arabian Peninsula as well, et al.?
Yes, where DO YOU draw the line?
Infidel says
Wellington, that era of being the world’s policeman should have ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union came down.
Particularly this year, when we for the first time ever became a net oil exporter, we don’t need to safeguard the oil supplies of the Middle East. Today, Trump said that if Iraq asks us to withdraw, that he’d ask them to pay for the base that we built. I’m all in favor of that, or just stealing Iraq’s customers by allowing Iran to blocade the Straits of Hormuz – which would hurt Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrein and Qatar, so that their customers are forced to turn to either the US or Russia.
About the Islamic threat, we’re already on the right track having established the Travel Ban template. We just need to add more Muslim countries to it – I’d put Iraq back in, and also add Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Qatar for starters. Then whenever any Muslim of Muslim country X does a jihadist act, add that country to the list, until we have all 50 Muslim countries on the list.
Also, we have our troops in ~150 of the world’s 190 countries. Time to pull most of them back, and focus just on our #1 strategic foe – China. I’d have the troops around China’s rim – South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam (if they’re okay w/ it), so that China can’t threaten any of its neighbors. I’d also keep support up for Hong Kong
Jane says
Western coalition has destabilised Iraq, Libya, afghanistan, yeman and helped destabilised Syria yet its everybody else’s fault
dhans says
Unfortunately, we are living in a “post truth” era, so things may not be as they seem. Did the government of Iraq set him up? Did he outlive his usefulness in Iraq, and was on the verge of becoming a disruptive force? The US had some very good intel on the meeting which could best be obtained by locals acting in concert with the attack. The Iraqi government would want to distance itself from any such action for obvious reasons. Probably something very similar happened in the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan.
CogitoErgoSum says
Makes me glad once again that I voted for President Trump in 2016. Can’t wait to vote for him again this year in November. Not tired of winning yet. More victories still to come.
Infidel says
Wonder whether his successor Ghani will roam around freely in Iraq like his now late boss did? He’d be a sitting duck for US drones if he did that
Regarding the Dems, ANSWER – that stupid group Act Now Stop War End Racism – which was dormant when Obama was bombing Libya and trying to oust Gaddafi – now plans to hold demonstrations in different cities to protest the killing of Soleimani. That group should be investigated for collusion w/ Iran, which is fair game if Trump can be investigated for collusion w/ Russia
Ren says
Soleimani deserves to die.
Wellington says
A second attempt here. First one didn’t post (I think) for some reason.
I like to think Soleimani is presently munching on his 72 raisins in Hell while having a hot poker being stuck up his ass. It warms my heart to think of him this way.
gravenimage says
Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers
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This is worse than I had thought. So glad he was taken out.
Avenger says
The Saudi’s were responsible for 3,500 American deaths on September 11, 2001 and they all received free first class flights out of the US and returned safely back too Riyadh. Then the US really sucks their ass and knocks off their main adversary in the region Saddam Hussein.
gravenimage says
Avenger has done this many times before–lauded the vile Mullahs, while ludicrously pretending that Jihad Watch supports the vicious Jihad and Shari’ah state of Saudi Arabia.
mortimer says
The best case scenario would be if a large number of Iranian officers proceeded to mutiny and created a provisional government. I believe that most people in Iran have no desire for the mullahocracy to continue. They have lost any mandate to continue in power ever from most of their sometime supporters. When people start generally to complain about them, then they will quickly be overturned. The police and even the Basij may not support the mullahs when the counterrevolution begins.
ronald says
Their inspiration for killing unbelievers is islam, is jihad, is the way of Allah , so why we build mosques in America.
Walter Sieruk says
Soleimani was a very dangerous man. Therefore it was necessary that he was eliminated.
OLD GUY says
I think it was Rep. Omar who said people did something to somebody, well that’s what happened to Soleimemi. And his legacy will last about a month and he will be forgotten for ever. No loss to mankind.