The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged

http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-inauthentic-opposition-is-stunned-by-a-crime-it-encouraged/
Date Written:  2020-01-06
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX24041

Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) – Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani - on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.