Democrats want the Iranian retaliation for Soleimani's death to be significant, with enough casualties to convince the public to either vote against Trump in the coming election or support his impeachment.

Disgracefully, they are actually rooting for American deaths so they and the media can soak Trump in enough blood for the left to regain power.

They are determined to be rid of this president, and if Americans must die for that to happen, their deaths will serve a higher purpose.

Just as with Barack Obama, the Democrats care only about partisan advantage — Americans themselves mean little to them in the great game of political power.

Remember the good old days, when Barack Obama was president, and it was traitorous to oppose any of his foreign policy actions? Today, seditious Democrats side with Iran against a duly elected president.

When Obama killed bin Laden in 2011, the nation rejoiced because it was good for America. Most Republicans swallowed hard and praised President Obama for ordering SEAL Team 6 to kill the leader of al-Qaeda.

And you might also recall that for eight years, Obama not only droned on and on with his mouth, but droned everyone in sight. In fact, Obama increased the use of drones to assassinate our enemies tenfold over George W. Bush. He was the King of Drones, killing many legitimate targets along with thousands of innocents as collateral damage. He even targeted and killed an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen in 2011.

Republicans didn't accuse him of impeachable crimes, even if they never despised the indiscriminate nature of his pursuit of our enemies and the deaths of people unlucky enough to get in his way.

Obama's rules of engagement (ROE) for our troops were significantly different from the ones he set for himself with his use of drones. How many American soldiers died because they weren't allowed to shoot first and weren't allowed to return fire if even one innocent might be close enough to become collateral damage?

Did the right accuse him of needlessly risking the lives of our soldiers for political gain? Did Republicans try to impeach him over the deaths of innocents during his drone strikes? No. Obama did many things that, while despicable, were exercises of presidential power.

And that's not even mentioning what Obama did in Libya without congressional authorization. There, Barry prosecuted an air campaign designed to kill the nation's leader, Moammar Gaddafi. Obama decided that congressional authorization wasn't needed. Did the right call that a targeted assassination?

Contrast that to what the Democrats are doing today. Trump killed a man responsible for the deaths of 600 Americans after attacks from forces he controlled killed an American citizen and attempted to overrun our Baghdad embassy, and Democrats are, at the very least, using it to build a better case for impeachment.

There is talk that since the articles of impeachment have not been transmitted to the Senate, and technically, Trump has not been impeached until they are, more articles can be added on. Noah Feldman, one of the impeachment witnesses in the House, wrote an essay which is a perfect setup for it.

They say killing Soleimani was a violation of the War Powers Act. They claim that the inevitable response by Trump to Iranian retaliation, if it includes targeting cultural sites, as Trump promised, would be a "war crime."

Wouldn't a violation of the War Powers Act and purported "war crimes" make nice additions to the articles of impeachment Pelosi is withholding or as the basis for a new impeachment?

Another Democrat talking point is that Soleimani posed no imminent threat, therefore he was not a legitimate target under the constitution. Awlaki was no "imminent" threat.

In reality, Soleimani was the leader of Iran's Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and thus a legitimate enemy combatant from a country that has waged war on America for four decades.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), tweeted that while Soleimani was an enemy of the United States, "The question is this — as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?"

He doesn't mention that Soleimani was a soldier or the leader of a designated terrorist organization. He wants Americans to believe that Trump assassinated the second most powerful political leader of a nation we're not at war with without congressional authorization. Wow, that sounds like "high crimes and misdemeanors." At least the way he says it. But wasn't Gaddafi a political leader? Didn't Obama engineer his assassination?

All their allegations go better as impeachable acts if the Iranians spill American blood and the Democrats and the media can build a case that Trump is directly responsible for the casualties.

Iran is our enemy. It's been telling us so for 40 years.

Yet the traitorous Democrats side with Iran.

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