Posted on 01/05/2020 9:15:28 AM PST by Kaslin
The Iraqi Parliament on Sunday passed a resolution that would expel the United States military following the killing of Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani.
“The government commits to revoke its request for assistance from the international coalition fighting Islamic State due to the end of military operations in Iraq and the achievement of victory,” the resolution read, CNBC reported. “The Iraqi government must work to end the presence of any foreign troops on Iraqi soil and prohibit them from using its land, airspace or water for any reason.”
Although Parliamentarian resolutions are non-binding to the government like laws are, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi encouraged the Parliament to take urgent action.
“Despite the internal and external difficulties that we might face, it remains best for Iraq on principle and practically,” Abdul Mahdi told parliament in a speech.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization, Kataib Hezbollah, threatened lawmakers who failed to show up or vote in favor of the resolution. Hezbollah considered those people to be "traitors."
Kataib Hezbollah has given Iraqi security forces a deadline of Sunday evening to move at least 1 km (0.62 mi) away from bases where American troops are stationed, urging military commanders not to allow their soldiers to serve as human shields for the U.S. Iraqi security forces have been unable to prevent a spate of rocket attacks targeting those bases in recent months, which U.S. officials blame on Kataib Hezbollah.
On Saturday, multiple rockets attacked the fortified green zone in Baghdad, right near the U.S. embassy. Thankfully no injuries were sustained.
There are currently 5,000 American troops stationed in Iraq. They were sent there in 2014 to help defeat ISIS, which overran a third of the country. ISIS was defeated a couple of years ago but troops remained in the area to prevent the terrorist organization from reemerging and to train Iraqi security forces.
OK, Iraq. See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya.
What a waste that part of the world is. Their religion will keep them fighting each other forever.
Non binding passed by a bunch of Iranian yes boys. If we actually started packing up they would beg us to stay bank it.
Must say: Iraqi war2003 paid off.
Good bring the troops home let the Arabs kill each other
The voting roll gives the Iraqis a convenient list of Irani agents and Iraqi quislings. Well done.
This is essentially a nothing burger, being hawked by the Left for nutritional value.
We would do well to ignore it, not act as if it’s more than it is.
Ok, then ... leave it as it was, BEFORE we started rebuilding. Let them figure it all out!
Justice for W! Justice for the war criminal George Bush.
Lol...sure. Cut off all aid immediately and watch them come crawling back like a crack whore.
So possibly a politically correct vote, just like House impeachment of PDJT.
Insights welcome.
Please don’t throw me in the briar patch
Hat tip to Brer Rabbit and old Georgia Folktales
I am real tired of the gigantic tar baby in the Middle East
What a colossal pile of ingrates! Let ‘em all rot !
The Iraqi military, much improved since its 2014 debacle in Mosul, can probably handle any ISIS threat. We should hope so because the current government of Iraq is trying to live in peace with its neighbors. Whatever its faults, it’s preferable to Iran or the old Saddam regime.
we should leave, post haste.
Everything that is moveable, bring it along. Everything else...just destroy it. Burn it. Blow it up. Bury it. Doesn’t matter.
Cut off all financial aid, too. We don’t need their damn oil, so there is no need to kiss their asses for ANYTHING.
Russia and Iran will rush to fill the vacuum. Let the Iraqu’s stew in their own juices. The people will rise up once they have had enough of the subjugation of islam.
We need not expend another drop of blood or treasure in this sand pit.
Please don’t throw me in the briar patch
Hat tip to Brer Rabbit and old Georgia Folktales
I am real tired of the gigantic tar baby in the Middle East
And when they get out of hand, we can use some of the $2 trillion in weapons we invested in, as Trump suggested.
Ingrates.
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