According to NBC News, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday to ask him “to send a delegation to Iraq to put a mechanism [in place] for implementing the Iraqi parliament decision to safely withdraw troops from Iraq…Iraq is keen to keep the best relations with its neighbors and friends within the international community, and to protect foreign representations and interests and all those present on Iraqi soil.”
Although both the U.S. and Iran have taken steps toward de-escalation, Abdul-Mahdi still intends to act on the resolution.
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Can you believe the audacity of this creep? Brock, did you hear
ReplyDeleteabout the Russian ship tailgating a US destroyer? Too funny.
Maybe Russia is going to rev it up.
Really. Trump said they would have to pay back the billions we spent on infrastructure first. A business man's decision and we finally have one as P.
DeleteDow AFB in Bangor, Maine closed. The gov spent billions on this
ReplyDeletebase which was a SAC base. When they closed, it was sold for one
dollar to the City of Bangor. Of course, Bangor was going to
economically suffer after its closing.
Interesting and thanks.
DeleteI say fine, you want us to leave? That shiny new airport we renovated? Rubble. Those fancy, new roads we put in? Scrap. Buildings? Not any more and oh, you owe us about 15 billion smackerenos! Pay up slime!
ReplyDeleteYup, just like we left DAO headquarters at TSN. https://fallofsaigon.org/orig/dao.jpg
DeleteGuys... we never built all that stuff with the intention of profiting from it ourselves or the intention of staying. The goal in Iraq was always to leave it to the Iraqis. We did exactly that under obama, then obama put troops back to fight ISIS, and we have a much smaller presence there now than we did in 2010. The goal is to throw them the keys and leave. It's their country. They paid a heavy price in blood to take it back from ISIS.
DeleteTHE GOAL IN AFGHANISTAN is also to leave.
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Shiny new airport? Have you BEEN to Baghdad? I have. That place hasn't been renovated since Saddam was president. Those big American bases were dismantled back in 2015. Most of Saddam's old airfields were cratered to prevent their use by anyone. The Iraqis did that because they couldnt afford to operate them.
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Thanks and now I am up to date. :)
DeleteMoon of Alabama:
ReplyDeleteTrump said he would ask Iraq to pay for the bases the U.S. has built should the U.S. troops be kicked out of Iraq. The U.S. already has binding legal agreements with Iraq which stipulate that the bases, and all fixed installations the U.S. has built there, are the property of Iraq.
I don't know why we signed that.
DeletePompeo lied about Solimani and his intentions and he ain't no
ReplyDeleteChristian:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/daniel-mcadams/pompeo-i-lied-about-soleimani-imminent-attacks/
Thanks.
DeleteMike Pompeo admitted that the neocon idea of “imminent ” and the normal idea of “imminent ” are two very different things.
“We don’t know precisely when and we don’t know precisely where (the attacks might take place), but it was real,” he told Ingraham.
That guy has been attacking us for 20 years. But we arent supposed to hit back if he wasnt imminent? What sort of foolishness is that? For the record, I'm also ok with resurrecting Hitler and Stalin to kill them again too.
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Pol Pot also. :)
Deletehttp://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=4005&highlight=phnom+penh
Hitler: Bring America back to its greatness. That will be the
ReplyDelete50's, early 60's and some of the 70's.
Tulsi, I would vote for her if she wasn't anti 2nd Amendment:
https://thesaker.is/tulsi-gabbard-trump-disgraces-our-military/
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