Republicans Smear Democrats for Calling the Killing of Qassim Suleimani an Assassination
Why is the media hounding Democrats who accurately call the killing of a general from a nation the United States has not declared war on an assassination?
Decades of hostilities broke out into war during Donald Trump’s second term after Israel and the U.S. launched unprovoked attacks against Iran.
Why is the media hounding Democrats who accurately call the killing of a general from a nation the United States has not declared war on an assassination?
Voices
The drone strike that killed the Iranian general is the legacy of two decades of secret legal opinions aimed at circumventing the U.S. assassination ban.
Members on both sides of the aisle were unimpressed with classified briefings and disputed the Trump administration’s legal rationale for the assassination.
No. 1: The president didn’t have a clue who Qassim Suleimani was just a few years ago.
Since 2016, the U.S. government-funded news outlet has turned to “blatant propaganda” designed to promote regime change in Iran.
David Petraeus, Jack Keane, Van Hipp, John Negroponte, and Jeh Johnson all celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassim Suleimani.
At a border crossing with Canada, Customs and Border Protection made dozens of families with Iranian heritage wait for hours to enter the U.S.
The Iran Cables
A nuanced portrait of Suleimani emerges from a leaked archive of secret Iranian spy cables obtained by The Intercept.
The legacy of the Iraq war, and Donald Trump’s assassination of an Iranian official in Baghdad, has the potential to transform the Democratic primary.
There’s no justification for assassinating foreign officials, including Qassim Suleimani. This is an aggressive act of war by the United States.
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