January 3, 2020 The death of General Soleimani is a great tragedy. We have killed one of the two generals most responsible for defeating ISIS and al Qaeda. We are not genuinely fighting a war on terror. I fear that in a sense, we are becoming the terror. His killing, coupled with rapidly growing troop movements, may presage a new war of aggression-this time, against the Iranian people. I pray that we draw back from the vast war that looms. We’ve now begun the 30th year of war against Iraq. We’ve dropped a quarter million bombs on the country and its people. We’ve spent a trillion dollars there, yet never bothered to effectively rebuild the electrical grid we destroyed in the “shock and awe” bombings a generation ago. Has the war ever concerned democracy? I think not. General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, told us how the Secretary of Defense, in 2002, ordered the preparation of plans to overthrow seven nations in five years. Iran was the final target. The schedule changed, but our objective did not. Neither our soldiers nor our people have a voice to stop it.”
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