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U.S. President Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Why Trump did it: All bad reasons

Heather Digby Parton

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Trump normalizers: You own this now

In this Sept. 18, 2016, file photo provided by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, that Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Trump's campaign message: Chaos, death

Lucian K. Truscott IV

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump orders killing of Iran's Soleimani

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Outraged Iraqi protesters storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, protesting Washington's attacks on armed battalions belong to Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces on December 31, 2019. At least 25 people were killed in weekend U.S. airstrikes on positions of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia group, in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of Iraqi protesters gathered early Tuesday near the embassy to show their anger at the U.S. move. (Photo by (Murtadha Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

US embassy compound in Baghdad besieged

(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Tell me how this ends?

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

Crater created by massive explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

We mourn Manchester, not Kabul

Sophia A. McClennen

Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces advance toward Islamic State positions as fighting to retake the extremist-held city of Mosul enters its second week, in the village of Tob Zawa, outside Mosul, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. A convoy of special forces advanced toward the village of Tob Zawa, Monday, encountering roadside bombs and trading heavy fire with the militants.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) (AP)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super

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Family members mourn the death of a relative who was killed in a March 27 ISIS-linked attack at a public park in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 28, 2016 (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

A blind eye to ISIS attacks

Arwa Damon (Screen shot, IWMF)

CNN journalist sued for biting

Ronan Farrow, John Negroponte (MSNBC)

Reagan's crony poisons MSNBC

Heather Digby Parton

Plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight on Sunday, April 4, 2004 in the Iraqi city of Najaf

Shock Blackwater allegations

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Natasha Lennard

(Reuters/Faleh Kheiber)

Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch.com

(AP/ Karim Kadim)

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Jillian Rayfield

Singer/Songwriter Erin McKeown (Merri Cyr)

A Free Syrian Army officer chants slogans during a training session on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)

Hugh Macleod, A Reporter in Syria

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