Did Trump just accidentally end our forever war in Iraq?

Is this 52d chess?




The recent attacks by Iran on the US Embassy and other us targets I guess begged the question of well if they weren't here would we be getting attacked?

On the other hand you have to deal with the reality that Iran has placed a lot of its own people into the Iraqi Parliament.

Anyhow getting American troops out of the area would be great.

This couldn't possibly be part of the plan?
Could it?

a reply to: dashen

Promises made, promises kept.

TheRedneck

Won the battle but lost the war.

a reply to: dashen

Anschluss, 2020 style.

Cheers

a reply to: RexKramerPRT

What do you mean we came we got rid of Saddam and there's no weapons of mass destruction? What are we still doing there?

I wonder what the anti-trump people are going to say because if Iran takes over Iraq those Kurds are going to be dead

a reply to: dashen

The Anti-Trump news media (90% of US Media) will find some homeless people in Iraq, and blame the U.S. for abandoning this ally.

To the liberal eye, leaving and staying are both horrible. The only scenario where it's not horrible is if a Democrat President decides then they approve that is the correct decision.

a reply to: dashen

Fighting ISIS?

Iran has wanted the US out of the way for 40 years. Now they have their way.

a reply to: dashen

The Iranis will find the Kurds in the whey.

Cheers

originally posted by: dashen
I wonder what the anti-trump people are going to say because if Iran takes over Iraq those Kurds are going to be dead

That if Trump had just not messed with Obama's foreign policy it would have all worked out..

a reply to: Wardaddy454

You mean Isis beheading people across the Levant drone striking weddings and sending palate after pallet of unmarked bills to the Iranian government so they can advance their nuclear program?

originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: Wardaddy454

You mean Isis beheading people across the Levant drone striking weddings and sending palate after pallet of unmarked bills to the Iranian government so they can advance their nuclear program?

Yeah that foreign policy.

The one where at least 2,800 strikes were committed without seeking congressional approval.

a reply to: Wardaddy454

Ah, the good ol days.
Remember when they gave him a Nobel Peace Prize?

originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: dashen

The Iranis will find the Kurds in the whey.

Cheers

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originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: Wardaddy454

Ah, the good ol days.
Remember when they gave him a Nobel Peace Prize?

I think they meant Nobel Piece Prize for the pieces he broke the Middle East into.

At any rate, we're out of it now if this is true, and he didn't make that choice. They did. Any negative consequences are on their heads.

Of course, at the time, the left all sagely applauded all the "Springs" and said he was bringing "democracy" to the Middle East. It does indeed let all of them decide their own fates, and it looks like this is the choice they make. I hope Allah does indeed have mercy because they'll need it.

a reply to: dashen

I wonder what the anti-trump people are going to say because if Iran takes over Iraq those Kurds are going to be dead

And they'll be dead if Iran doesn't take over Iraq.
Neither side likes The Kurds.
Neither does the US as evidenced by them abandoning them in Syria.

a reply to: dashen

doesn't this negate the "if we leave them now" issue? We didn't leave them, they told us to go. OK. Pack up and come home boys. We will just sell our own oil for a bit.

The poor left wing war mongers will be sad, but WGAF?

originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: dashen

I wonder what the anti-trump people are going to say because if Iran takes over Iraq those Kurds are going to be dead

And they'll be dead if Iran doesn't take over Iraq.
Neither side likes The Kurds.
Neither does the US as evidenced by them abandoning them in Syria.

But what can we do? resettle them to the UK? We were asked to leave. I don't think it's up to us anymore.

a reply to: Freeborn

We abandoned them with a bunch of heavy US Artillery