Exclusive: Former Iraqi PM-designate confirms the US is planning to leave Iraq ‘in two years from now’, which suggests Iran is poised to do whatever it takes to drive American troops out of the country
Source: Independent
By Ahmed Aboudouh; @AAboudouh
US fears of an imminent, large-scale attack on its soldiers in Iraq is entirely valid. Iran, with its arms, seems ready to do whatever it takes to drive American troops out of the country immediately.
US secretary of defence Mark Esper was very confident in refuting a letter sent to his Iraqi counterparts in January, saying that the US military is preparing for “movement out of Iraq”, after killing the Iranian commander Qassam Soleimani. Both Esper and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, insisted at the time that there had been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq.
But this seems not to be entirely accurate. According to the former Iraqi prime minister-designate Mohamed Tawfik Allawi, the US has plans in place to leave Iraq in two years from now.
Iraqi president Barham Salih had asked Allawi to form a government at the beginning of February to end a long-lasting power vacuum after young Iraqis took to the streets in large numbers, asking for the removal of the government and an end to corruption.
Around mid-February, he held a crucial meeting in his office with the US ambassador Mathew Tueller and other American diplomats, discussing the future of the US-led coalition against Isis in Iraq.
ARLINGTON, VA – AUGUST 01: The gravesite of Muslim-American, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan is shown at Arlington National Cemetary August 1, 2016 in in Arlington, Virginia. Khan was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004. Khan’s mother and father, Ghazala and Khizr Khan, were criticized by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after their appearance onstage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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If the virus will get the US out of Iraq and Saudi Arabia out of Yemen, it would have done some good.
Appositely Rafiq, if Us leave Iraq, Gulf states do you know what will happen ?
Saudi arabia and Iran will destroy each other, actually Sunny and Syiah.
would be ok to see Saudi Arabia and Iran fight with their own weapons (swords), without USA supplying all the arms and ammunition. Hopefully without purchased mercenaries as well. Only Saudis and Iranians should be permitted to fight. Let’s go and watch …
just to recall: when the Iran / Iraq was going on the good old USA supplied weapons to both sides, hoping the war will go on and on. What superior ethics.
They did not supply any side enough to win, just the killing to go on and on. When the war stopped, an American General is on record to have said ‘now we need to do something about Iraq (for the sake of Israel)’ and that they did and are doing.
by the way: there was a war that was stopped by USA and Russia not supplying any more arms: India / Pakistan war of 1965. Both USA supplying Pakistan and Russia supplying India decided not to supply more ammunition. The war stopped in ten days. Why can this not be done again?
ok. btw those in the Indian or Pakistani army in those days may confirm or deny the above.
I believe that the order of the world is changing now—we cannot go back as before for sure—
I want to see KSA will be democratic state and obey human right – justice for all. My opinion is that the main couse of conflict in the world is KSA since 9/11-2001. ( wahhabi ideology )
with a little bit of CIA and MOSSAD help?
What you mean is what trouble in this world because of CIA AND MOSSAD..
Do you think those Muslim who persecute Ahmadiyyah because of CIA AND MOSSAD toooooo?
Come on Rafiq
no, not only. just contributing …