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Qassem Soleimani and the Bastardful History of U.S. / Iran Relations

Behind the Bastards

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Qasem Soleimani - Is He the Prime Minister of Iraq?

On the left wing, people started spinning yards about Qasem's legacy and portraying him as an anti-imperialist fighter. In 2015, then candidate Donald J. Trump appeared on the talk show of right wing radio icon Hugh Hewitt who asked him, are you familiar with General Soleimani? And Trump clearly had no idea what the Quds Force was because his immediate response was, I think the Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by us. So that's where Trump's level of knowledge of this guy was four years before ordering his assassination,.

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