I'm starting to strongly suspect this could be what actually happened :-/

Well they ARE the authors of the psychopathic paranoid "pre-emptive strike" doctrine, now a major US import. But it's too early for the commoners to determine what happened. He could have fully approved it for political reasons, or just as easily the neocons and MIC did it on their own and he had to say he ordered it with that flimsy justification.

It wouldn't be the first time!

You might want to do research Soleimani has been killing Americans forever and this was not the first embassy he attacked we don't need Israeli help on this one as the Obama administration had already designated him to be a terrorist check this out https://www.dailywire.com/news/iranian-general-killed-in-airstrike-helped-plan-benghazi-attack-which-left-4-americans-dead?%3Futm_source=twitter

I spotted him in the crowd selling popcorn and handing out programs.