Hundreds Rally To Oppose War With Iran

Hundreds?!?!? Really?!?! (I'm being petty and mean, like my previous comment).
Seriously-- the wars of occupation and empire must stop. However, the claim that the US is the "...biggest thief in history..." are exaggerated. Every country is dying to do the same and many profit from hitting with the US's hands. Let's have a protest about France in Niger or Mali, Turkey rattling sabers at Libya. It's all the same story of greed and fight for resources, which every one of us profits from. no one is innocent. No one's hands are clean in this. Pray for peace. Vote against warmongers

[Paul: People were clustered in four directions. So while there may look like only 50 or 75 people in one spot in a photo, the number of actual people was at least 200 by my check during the speeches.]

Drone strikes against our enemies in this region have been going on for years. 2016 was a high water mark.

Strikes 3 38 14 1071
Total people reported killed 11-12 147-203 204-292 1389-1597
Civilians reported killed 1 0 3-5 65-101

(apologies for the formatting - full story is at https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush)

It is fair to debate the concept of drone hits (although it does make our soldiers safer) but to attack the current administration as the problem is rather misguided.

According to "experts" and the impeachettes America should already be at war with China, North Korea, multiple times because Trump said Boo. Of course we need to be at war in Turkey and Syria protecting The Kurds, even if their not the right Kurds. Maybe the military should have dropped a pallet of dollars on this guy. Good thing Bin Laden was killed on a democrats watch or their would be calls to add his name to the 9/11 Memorial.

One of the common complaints about war is that old men send young men to die. In the television MAS*H, Hawkeye commented to father Mulcahey that war was worse than hell because hell harmed no innocent bystanders, and that in was pretty much everyone except the brass was a bystander. In this case, one old man had another old man, a "brass" general responsible for the deaths of hundreds of rank and file US soldiers, and the continued destabilization of Iraq, killed. Yet, there is more protest than when we target some site with conscripts and civilians.

There'a a lack of nuance in this protest and in the comments.

Suleimani was an evil man and his death makes the world a better place. Denying that is not addressing the facts

But the timing and location of his assassination may make America less safe. There's much to question about Mr. Trump's strategy. He has harmed us by allowing Turkey to kill Kurds and now is jeopardizing our ability to contain Iran in Iraq. Killing an evil man is not always the best strategy. At a minimum, there should have been some consultation with our allies in Iraq.

Foreign policy, including the neccessary use of force, should be reasoned and debated, not impulsive.The protestors sound clueless, and the Trump supporters equally so.

DrJay:

The protests (this one and others like it around the country) are less about Suleimani the man than the U.S.'s continued meddling in the Middle East and the blatant, ramped up move toward war with Iran.

Apart from which: Suleimani was not a private citizen or a rogue terrorist. He was an Iranian government official, in Iraq on government business (reportedly to begin negotiations with Saudi Arabia). His killing has angered the Iraqi government, the Iraqi people, united disparate Iranian factions in anti-Americanism, ramped up dangerous saber-rattling on both sides, and handed a victory to ISIS. How is the world any safer?

1644:
I was specifically thinking of a heads up to our Iraqi Kurdish and British allies.

A covert operation would have been preferable, with the possible of deniability or at least doubt.

If necessary, a missile strike could have been done in Syria or Lebanon, where Suleimani is frequently spotted. The use of a missile strike in Iraq seems to be aimed at a USA audience with the cost of our being able to continue to operate in Iraq.

Soooo, no comments/concerns about Norm Clements' thinly veiled anti-semitic comments about the "Zionist state of Israel" and what "they" do around the world? Yikes.

We do not know enough to say whether this action was justified. What we do know is that Iran is an evil force whose leaders have repeatedly announced to the world that they want Americans and Israelis obliterated from the face of the earth. All they need is a nuclear bomb which they are either actively building or planning to build in 6 more years when permitted by their accord with other world leaders.
Certain countries need to be contained, like Iran and North Korea. I hope we are making the right moves. We just do not know enough. I hope our leaders do.