Ocasio-Cortez: Trump Engaged in ‘Act of War’ by Killing Soleimani

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses President Trump in engaging in an act of war by killing Soleimani

President Trump engaged in an “act of war” by killing Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has declared.

The far-left Democrat congresswoman tweeted:

“Last night the President engaged in what is widely being recognized as an act of war against Iran, one that now risks the lives of millions of innocent people.”

Breitbart.com reports: Friday, Trump defended the airstrike that killed the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force by stating that it was done to prevent a conflict, not start one.

“We took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action to start a war,” he said, adding that “Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. We remember and honor the victims of Soleimani’s many atrocities and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over.”

In a subsequent tweet, Ocasio-Cortez urged her followers not to fall for the message of so-called “war advocates”:

However, critics have failed to recognize that Iran has been the aggressor, not the United States, according to Breitbart News’s Joel B. Pollak.

Friday, he wrote:

Moreover, Soleimani’s death actually improves the prospects for peace by encouraging the Iranian people to stand up against their rulers. The message to the Iranian people was clear: America is not against you, but against your oppressors. As if to help Trump, Iranian state TV reportedly stopped all programming to broadcast tributes to Soleimani. The Iranian people know: Trump cares more about them than their leaders do.

Phillip Smyth, an expert at the Washington Institute on Iran-controlled Shia militias and the Middle East, recently called Soleimani’s death a “major blow” to the Iranian regime.

“I would argue that this is probably the most major decapitation strike the United States has ever carried out. … This is a man who controlled a transnational foreign legion that was controlling governments in numerous different countries,” Smyth said.

“It’s an incredible two-fer,” he commented. “This is another one of those old hands. These guys don’t grow on trees. It takes time.”

8 Comments

  1. AOC, honey, you are too dumb to understand that this was not an act of war, it was an act of SELF-DEFENSE. For one thing, CIA has controlled Iran for decades, since early 1950s. The Iranian general was about to attack our embassy in Iran, also he had killed THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, SYRIANS, AND IRANIANS. He was a cuthroat gangster who should have been taken out long ago. This was an act of defense – thank you President Trump!

  2. Yo, nitwit: Attacking the embassy was an act of war. That embassy is America, like downtown Omaha. No difference. You are use to the USA not retaliating so get use to retaliation. If President Trump says a pi$$ant can pull a freight train, you better hook it up.

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