Trump followed the urging of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Marco Rubio, and Mike Pence when he made the decision to kill the Iranian general. Vice President Pence claimed that Soleimani was responsible for 9/11, and no one mentioned the absurdity of such a statement. When Trump ordered the assassination of General Soleimani, he said he was protecting the US from "imminent attacks" on US facilities and personnel. However, it is now known that Trump was told by Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi that the Iranian general was on his way to Iraq seeking peaceful relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Since the assassination, Iraq's parliament has voted to expel all US troops from the country, Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has sworn to exact a "severe revenge" on Soleimani's killers, and Trump has threatened to target Iranian 'cultural' sites, which are religious institutions. [This is not going to end well for anyone, including Americans.] -GEG