'The US media is, as always, working to create a war psychology within the American public. Even those who express qualms about the implications of Trump’s action invariably couch their timid criticisms in denunciations of Suleimani as a “bad actor” and even “terrorist,” supposedly responsible for killing hundreds of US troops.

This is all a pack of lies. Suleimani directed forces that defeated both Al Qaeda’s US-backed affiliates in Syria and ISIS, Washington’s Frankenstein’s monster, in Iraq. He is not implicated in the crimes that resulted from the US war of aggression in Iraq, which killed over a million people and produced such horrors as the massacre in Fallujah and the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib. As for American soldiers who died in Iraq, their blood is on the hands of the Bush administration and the Democrats who supported sending them into a “war of choice” based on lies.'