Why should anyone believe the US government?

Yes Lod, politicians lie about everything. Why would they tell the truth about this?

Is Free Republic suddenly an honest, grown-up, non-neocon site now?

Read the article at FR. Reminds me why I avoid that site. The article was BS. Soleimani was responsible for thousands of deaths in Syria? No. What he did was to come to the rescue of Syria after the US hired Al Qaeda and ISIS Jihadists to invade Syria starting in 2011. And the US and NATO manufactured stories (lies) about Syria using chemical weapons against their people when in every case it was either a lie or an atrocity committed by Al Qaeda.

What he did was to come to the rescue of Syria after the US hired Al Qaeda and ISIS Jihadists to invade Syria starting in 2011

After certain elements in our defense/intelligence underworld gave them succor.

Al Qaeda and ISIS Jihadists are/were Sunni supremacists. It's a natural that Soleimani would want to whack them.

He wasn't after doing us any favors. Keep things in perspective.

He wasn't after doing us any favors.

He was doing the legitimate Syrian government a favor.

Try re-reading the key points and post your disagreements.

The fact is that Soleimani was neither a “Hero” nor a “genius”; he was just a cruel, and merciless person who would follow the orders of the regime’s Supreme leader with maximum brutality and butchery. He and his proxy militias in Syria and Iraq massacred and displaced millions of people from their towns and villages. They used all types of prohibited and inhumane weapons, including flammable and cluster bombs or chemical weapons on residential areas for intimidation and cleansing.

Calling Soleimani, a “Hero” is an insult to the Iranian people and the people of the region who have been victims of his atrocities. It is also an insult to humanity to call a mass murderer a “hero”. Soleimani personally was behind the flow of IEDs to Iraq and Afghanistan.

On April 2019, Pentagon announced that Iran is to blame for 17 percent of all U.S. service personnel deaths between 2003 and 2011.

The sophisticated IEDs were secretly manufactured in Iran’s military industry factories under the order of Quds force and Soleimani and were distributed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Later Iran’s military factories manufactured a more powerful and deadlier roadside bomb called explosively formed projectiles (EFPs). EFPs were built under a confidential order by the Qods Force in Iran. The information about the exact location of the factories was revealed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran on July 25, 2006, and 29 January 2009.

A short review of Soleimani’s activities reflects his true terrorist nature.

Soleimani played a key role in the killing of the members of Iran’s main opposition group,

Altogether from 2009 to 2016, Quds Force proxies in Iraq under the command of Qasem

Soleimani killed 141 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) in terrorist attacks, thousands more were wounded and injured.

Soleimani and Quds force, under his command, was in charge of all the terrorist attacks of the Iranian regime and its proxy groups all across the world. All the Shite terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East, including Kateb Hezbollah, Asaeb al-Haq in Iraq, the Hezbollah in Lebanon, and many other groups in Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and … were under the command of Soleimani.

Soleimani was also responsible for the killing of thousands in Syria. The Quds force and its proxy groups under the command of Soleimani with brutal tactics destroyed many towns and villages and massacred the civilians.

In recent protests in Iraq, Soleimani led the repressive forces to suppress the protests. The snipers targeting protest leaders from rooftops were the tactic of Soleimani. Most of the 450 protesters killed during the protests were killed by the snipers. Last November more than 1,500 protesters were killed in Iran, most of them were shot from rooftops by snipers belonging to the Quds forces. Soleimani was the mastermind for such killings in Iraq and Iran.

Soleimani was a terrorist and leader of a terrorist entity responsible for killings and sufferings of hundreds of thousands of people, and to depict him as a “Hero” is a crime and disgrace.

The Quds Force will not be the same without Qasem Soleimani, and the weakening of the Quds Force will win turn weaken the regime in its entirety. This will further weaken the regime in the face of ongoing uprisings in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, where Soleimani was one of the most hated figures.

Calling Soleimani, a “Hero” is an insult to the Iranian

His daughter is American, not Iranian.

Half a million Iranians live in America.

Why is it we do NOT see long lines of Trump haters waiting to emigrate to Iran???

Why not indeed?

Killing MEK is like saying killing ISIS.

IED improvements blamed on Iran. Iraqis were teaching other how to make better IEDs in US detention camps.

The US invaded Muslim nations as unpaid mercenaries for Israel. No fault for a Muslim to resist invasion.

SOleimani was a lot more popular than the article said. He stood up to America.