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We have been at war here for almost 20 years, we occupy the country, we occupy the capital city yet we have to bomb the capital city airport to take out an airline passenger.

It keeps the war hot, it keeps the fear alive.

If this doesn’t spell failure nothing does.

This subtlety is lost on the AP.

The dramatic attack comes at the start of a year in which Trump faces both a Senate trial following his impeachment by the U.S. House and a re-election campaign.

Mandatory, if not relevant, point.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give official statements.

Code for CIA generated propaganda.

While Iran’s conventional military has suffered under 40 years of American sanctions, the Guard has built up a ballistic missile program.

Sanctions were a failure.

Soleimani’s killing follows the New Year’s Eve attack by Iran-backed militias on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

See comment above re: occupation.

U.S. officials have suggested they were prepared to engage in further retaliatory attacks in Iraq.

Suggested! We haven’t been prepared in 18 years.

https://apnews.com/5597ff0f046a67805cc233d5933a53ed

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States killed Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region.

The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the region and spiral into a far larger conflict between the U.S. and Iran, endangering U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond.

The Defense Department said it killed Soleimani because he “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” It also accused Soleimani of approving the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week…

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