Ever since Trump became president, he’s wanted to go to war with Iran.

He disregarded the work the United Nations Security Council had done to work out a framework for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program. The United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China–plus Germany and the European Union worked together to reduce Iran’s nuclear facilities.

But the Trump administration decided to withdraw from the United Nations’ plan. Instead of using the nuclear deal as a starting point for diplomacy, the Trump administration has decided its in Trump’s best interest to carry out an assassination of one of Iran’s top military leaders.

Good guy, bad guy

There is no question that Soleimani was bad guy, but does that justify a government sanctioned assassination? Why kill him now? No one in Congress was consulted prior to the launch of the drone Why did Trump and and his sycophants decide to increase the chance of war with Iran? Will sending thousands of American soldiers to Iraq fit with Trump’s claim that he assassinated Soleimani not to start a war, but to prevent one?

Can the impeached guy be trusted?

We have an impeached President claiming that he had intelligence information that suggested that Soleimani was about to launch attacks against the U.S., and therefore the launch of the drone was an act of self-defense. Trump has lied more than 15,000 times since his appearance in the Oval Office. He can’t be trusted. Why should we believe his simplistic reasoning—Soleimani was a bad guy, so I killed him?

The Trump administration’s use of the intelligence community is an oxymoron. Trump has stood before the world and denied U.S. Government intelligent reports, especially the facts about the Russian interference in the 2016 election.

We’ll see what happens.

Trump will use is famous phrase to answer our questions about what he will do next. He’ll say, “we’ll see what happens.”

Trump has put the world in a perilous situation. A friend in the U.K. wrote today. He said:

Well what a ….up! Guess most of you will be wondering where the country is going to end up. Would not be surprised if this costs lots of lives, money and years to sort and what for, nothing but ego and political gain – how sad. Keep safe guys and hunker down.

But, the assassination is a colossal blunder that will result in reprisals and retaliation from Iran. How does the U.S. justify this assassination in Iraq? What will happen to the innocent people of Iraq, and indeed, other countries throughout the middle east?

Trump is trying to create a new story that will deflect us from his impeachment trial in the Senate. He’s done this over and over again. He’s not to be trusted, yet here he is, with the power of the U.S. military only a phone call or button away. What have we done?

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