By Daniel McAdams
\nRon Paul Institute<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s neoconservative Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, is a man unafraid to admit to being a liar. In fact he seems to\u00a0revel in his ability to lie<\/a>\u00a0to the American people.<\/p>\n Remember just a week ago when Pompeo told us that the US absolutely HAD to send in a drone to assassinate Iran\u2019s top general, Qassim Soleimani, while he was in Iraq on a\u00a0peace mission<\/a>\u00a0because he was planning \u201cimminent attacks\u201d on US personnel and interests in the Middle East.<\/p>\n These claims were crafted to blunt any criticism of the blatantly illegal act of killing a top military officer of a country with which you are not at war in a third country (which forbade the attack on its soil) with which you are allied. Americans raising concerns about the murder of Soleimani were to be made to look unpatriotic if they objected: \u201cyou mean you WANT Americans die??\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s how propaganda works.<\/p>\n Then when the smoke clears, you laugh it all off and admit it was all a lie. As Pompeo did last night.<\/p>\n Speaking on the Laura Ingraham program, Mike Pompeo\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0that the neocon idea of \u201cimminent\u00a0\u201d and the normal idea of \u201cimminent\u00a0\u201d are two very different things.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know precisely when and we don\u2019t know precisely where (the attacks might take place), but it was real,\u201d he told Ingraham.<\/p>\n But if you don\u2019t know when and don\u2019t know where (and presumably don\u2019t know how), on what basis did Pompeo and the Trump Administration sell the idea that he had to be killed immediately lest untold numbers of Americans be killed?<\/p>\n And how can we believe Pompeo that Soleimani was behind the initial rocket attacks on an Iraqi base housing US troops, that a US contractor was killed by Soleimani\u2019s forces at that base, and that Soleimani was behind the \u201cattacks\u201d (vandalism) on the US embassy in Baghdad?<\/p>\n In other words, if the central justification for the murder of Soleimani is an admitted lie, who in his right mind would believe the official version of the antecedents to the murder?<\/p>\n While proudly lying day and night, Pompeo\u00a0professes to be a great Christian<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 at the same time he pushed Trump to murder the\u00a0architect of the anti-ISIS counterinsurgency<\/a>\u00a0(Soleimani) that saved hundreds of thousands of Syrian Christian lives.<\/p>\n Something smells sulfurous about Pompeo\u2026<\/p>\n