Today's chuckle

[k.d.]

Why was the General in Baghdad?
According to Moon of Alabama, this is what we know:

He had planned to attend the funeral of the 31 Iraqi soldiers the U.S. had killed on December 29 at the Syrian-Iraqi border near Al-Qaim.

Soleimani had arrived in Baghdad on a normal flight from Lebanon. He did not travel in secret. He was picked up at the airport by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes, the deputy commander of the al-Hashd al-Shaabi, an official Iraqi security force under the command of the Iraqi Prime Minister. The two cars they traveled in were destroyed in the U.S. attack. Both men and their drivers and guards died.

What about the legality of what the U.S. did?

Again, from MOA:

No Iraqi politician will be able to argue for keeping U.S. forces in the country. The Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Mahdi has called for a parliament emergency meeting to ask for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops:

"The targeted assassination of an Iraqi commander is a violation of the agreement. It can trigger a war in Iraq and the region. It is a clear violation of the conditions of the U.S. presence in Iraq. I call on the parliament to take the necessary steps."

There are too many Unintended Consequences that could result from this but one thing is certain

The U.S. created two martyrs who will now become the models and idols for tens of millions of youth in the Middle East.

The Moon of Alabama take is here:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/us...imani.html
Readers comments are completely different than what one finds at Breitbart.