FILE PHOTO: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Qassem Soleimani stands at the frontline during offensive operations against Islamic State militants in the town of Tal Ksaiba in Salahuddin province March 8, 2015. Stringer via REUTERS/File Photo
WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Friday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to kill top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, saying on Twitter that the military leader had been attempting to take control of Iraq and use it as a platform to attack the United States. “At the direction of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Soleimani was plotting a coup in Iraq,” Rubio wrote on Twitter, without citing sources. “He was corrupting/threatening politicians, exploiting Iraq’s resources & bringing a large military force loyal to him, in an effort to make Iraq a platform to attack the U.S. & our allies.”
Lies.....
If anyone remembers, Iraq and Iran were at war for years and it ended in a tie. We steamrolled Iraq in a matter of hours. Why would Iran be any different? Isn’t it about time someone wipe Iran to the ground?
You should quote more credible ppl than him. Sais a lot about your own credibility!
Satan is dead! 😃😃😃
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Was he plotting alone?
oh! so he was against the well known north american world invasion plan by infiltrating governments! well, if you don't like what USA or the UN does, they will kill you.
IMPERIO YANKEE NAZIS CRIMINALES, LADRONES Y MENTIROSOS!
Just like Sadam had WMDs.....not! WAR = Re-Election for President Dumbo!
HARD_REVENG worldwar3 WWIII Down_whit_usa Down_with_israel
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With the weapons of mass destruction of Iraq
Plotting in Rubio’s A**
Next the supreme leader
LIAR! Narco Rubio reapeting like a parrot what Trump said about his assassination of Suleimani and others! LIARS! ASSASSINS! WAR CRIMINALS! OIL LOOTERS! SATANYAHU'S PUPPETS!
Like Senator Rubio and friends' ILLEGAL FAILED COUP ATTEMPTS on Venezuela? Or Hillary/Obama and friends' ILLEGAL SUCCESSFUL COUP ATTEMPT (or not) on Libya/Qaddafi? Now we've taken out a top general of a sovereign nation/Iran who decimated US led/trained ISIS/Al-Qaeda in Syria!
Stop just quoting your sources without checking what they say! It's incredibly irresponsible to put this out without any critique.
GOP propaganda
BS 3.0
Don't want to tell Reuters how to report. but u guys should know the current government has been recalled and elections would be called if the situation wasn't already bat-cray before we went and killed this guy
Marco who?!
L I A R
Senator who?
Fakenews
What a shitty headline Reuters. Guess 2016 taught this reporter nothing.
'Deutsche Bank'
marcorubio Show us the PROOF! Sins of the father! Karma will get you!
BS
Bullshit, how do we know that? If he were, does that mean we killed him because we already executed a coup in Iraq in 2003? Why don't we ask the Iraqis what THEY think?
Oh well if Marco Rubio says it....
puppeteer cut the rope of his puppet QasemSoleimani Like OsamaBinLaden who s going to run the game now s the realproblem killers re killing each other, good.but once the war started,the civilian Muslims would be massacred during the war,again.unfair warofkillers iran_usa
Is this a big lie that you have, can you trust and tell this world?
far, far from news
And as everyone knows, only the United States are allowed to stage coups 😉
Ok now thousand Suleimanis are plotting to hit every single american in the middle east and they have the reason to do that. The worst thing when an idiot thinks that he succeeded 😒🕸️
They keep changing the story.
Which is it a coup attacks against usa strikes on bases? Like jesus christ everyone is saying something different because they know it's all fucking lies. Iran has every right to retaliate and justly should. America too long has been smacking other countries with 0 recourse
Sure hope there is imminent evidence of this
Now y’all are just posting any old shitty take?
Rubio is another L I A R but even if that were true, it's none of our damn business.
Headlines should read, per Rubio. So this was the “ONLY” solution? So now trump believes intelligence?
that would be a daft thing to do, given sanctions already in place.
Okay, so he was! Just like Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
Thumb sucks
Bahaha! Yeah. Sure he was. Did he have weapons of mass destruction too?
marcorubio better back that up with documents at foreign relations hearings. NBCNightlyNews ABCWorldNews CBSEveningNews
Is the evidence as strong as WMD in Iraq?
rubio is such a lier!
Assassinat du Général Qassem Soleimani : Un PRÉCÉDENT DANGEREUX. Il faut condamner toutes les formes de terrorismes. Le terrorisme d’état c'est le pire des terrorismes. Aucun terrorisme n'est justifiable. Le monde en a marre de la violence.
Cooked up evidence
americans now really under danger in all mid east
What nonsense, Iran is not doing anything.
From what I understand he didn't need a coup. He already had control of Iraq gov through his militias.
LIERS!
Make up your minds you said he was plotting terrorist attacks in America
Also TRUMP: And it's really a deserving name - intelligence. I've dealt with some people that aren't very intelligent having to do with intel.
Liars
We would never know now
Great, let’s drop a bomb on Juan Guaido then. Can’t have a coup happening.
Credible source, eh?🙄😂🙄🙄
And Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. We’ve played this bullshit game before. It’s not gonna work today.
Glad they smoked that dude.
Absolute BS
Well, we all know lil Marco is very knowledgeable on Coups, given his day 1 cheerleading for Venezuela and Bolivia
he's mad he had influence on the leadership, of course he did, as does the US. the new head of Quds will also have influence. You cant have two Shia nations beside each other and think they wont influence each other or be close (in war and peace time)
Trying the topple an Iraqi government? The nerve.
Trump doesn’t believe in US intelligence so that info must have come from the Kremlin.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
الله ارحموا انا لله وانا اليه راجعون 😭
Using WMDs, I assume
Projecting much? 70 years ago, It's US staged a coup to topple Iranian government without any repercussion, but now we kill their leader because we say they're planning a coup in Iraq which is the country we invaded based on bunch of lies. WTF is this world we're living in?
Kinda seems like something congress should discuss in a public forum and cite sources and all that.
Given the position he held and secret contact he had,US strike can be seen as accurate and productive, but considering Iran's being close to American interests in the region we might assist to some escalation,kind of secret plots coming time.
Some US politicians really know how to make the world hate their country!
Same script. Same problem.
And his thoughts on Bolivia and Venezuela?
And he was about to claim the Throne to the King of the Universe and Trump could not have him do that.
No
भहुत बड़े चूतिये हो
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Rubio is an Amateur he doesn't know his left to his right.
Based on what verifiable evidence?
Rubio doesn't know 💩. trump and the reckless GOP have possibly started a war and are endangering the world.
His proof? And how does this justify a drone strike on foreign soil? Or is Rubio ok with high ranking officials being assassinated when visiting other countries? Soleimani was a bad man, to be sure, but FFS
كذبة جديد تضاف الى كذبكم المستمر
U.S. : Only our dictator is good dictator...👉 why lend this opportunity to Iranians
Before we are done with this 'sources' will be telling us that Soleimani was gonna lead an Iranian-backed land invasion somewhere between NY & DC.
This story sounds a like like Bush's WMDs.
Someone in his Team snitched in him
you repeat what they said! have you question the legality of their actions? have you inform the rest of humanity what international law (UN Charter) say about such criminal acts? are you informing
Good job 👏🏼
So what. The USUKISREAL (5 eyes) alliance of evil r planning coups all day every day for the last 70 years & have added value 2the last empire we had trying to straddle the world demanding cunnilingus from everyone
And the US gone a step ahead to be kicked out of Iraq 😂
In Kurdish: Qisay qorr; fiddle-faddle
They have killed the guy and now they are creating all sorts of conspiracies and rhetoric against him 🤔
More lies from Little Marco.
This is nothing but GOP Senate Leadership giving Rubio a script that he can read out loud word for word. He has not shown any evidence of an original thought IMO.
Donald and the GOP lie constantly. I don't believe them.
Buuuuuulllllshit marcorubio
So apparently only the US is allowed to stage coups Its only wrong when others do it Typical US bullshit
where is the evidencethis is another weapons of mass destruction lie, meant to favour the industrial complex interests!
According to whom?
So attacking a country and killing millions is campared to a coup which never happened
Yes, of course we believe it 🙄
Maybe Sean Hannity told Rubio this information.
But that’s America’s job!
Fake news? What is his source of information
and I have a girlfriend but she goes to a different school
... There is nothing worse than a president going at war and justifying it in order to stay in power...
Like saddam was making WOMD
In other words Americans want to say, 'how dare he take our job?'.
That's the 3rd excuse for this assignation I've heard so far. These people are despicable.
marcorubio there were wmds in iraq syria gassed it's own people same lies different script.
Where's the proof? Are you saying Rubio would never lie? Why settle for just talking points?
When did fabricating facts to support a narrative become a tactic of the GOP? ...oh wait, yes I remember. Since always.
'That's our job!' 🤡
Where is the evidence?
Soleimani was plotting a coup but was killing Americans to maintain his cover?
How does he know that? Is he talking to the deep state?
Oh marcorubio read this bit still hasn't read the transcripts from the trump call? Sure
This was confirmed on Iraqi social media. Many ppl who have a relatives working in government or for some militias were hinting to a new start in many different ways way before the attack take place
BULLSHIT he's always plotting - always has been - he's got Putin's playbook marcorubio - every single one of you are gaslighting this nation - we all see it. Your time in the barrel is coming pal!
Bullshit excuse
Most Americans aren't dumb enough to buy this
Regardless. Trump acted unilaterally ignoring the chain of command. It’s another example of a rogue president abusing the powers of his office.
Omg !they r professional liars .
Rubio lies. Pompeo lies. Trump lies - they all lie. Call BS when you hear it. BS
Where is the proof?
Yes of course he was, anything else, maybe blow up the moon!!!!
horseshit
Is Marco that gullible or does he think we are?
And who told him that? The same intelligence professionals that Trump and the GOP have been denigrating?
Yeah, okay.... What other nonsense can he make up?
Damn. I didn't think he survived Iron Eagle
How many lies will republicans tell to avoid convicting criminal Trump?
Is no one else going to comment on the person next him? The US gear? 511 tactical gear
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