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FOURNIER: How President Trump Kept Us Out Of A War With Iran

Ryan Fournier
FOURNIER: How President Trump Kept Us Out Of A War With Iran
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Following President Donald Trump’s decisive, defensive strike on arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (QF), Democrats immediately claimed that the U.S. was on the warpath with Iran.

They didn’t ask for the president’s justification in taking out a man who was responsible for the murder of over 600 U.S. service members in Iraq via roadside IEDs; instead, they immediately labeled the strike “disproportionate” and an “act of war.” They claimed the Trump administration was actively attempting to start a war with Iran, and in taking out the head of the QF (a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization), the administration had done just that.

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