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This is ridiculous. U.S troops (along with other coalition nations) are in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government. If the Iraqi government formally request
by 40acres 7y ago
This is ridiculous. U.S troops (along with other coalition nations) are in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government. If the Iraqi government formally requests us to leave, we should do so. Threatening to freeze their account otherwise is mob mentality.
- hollander 7y agoIt's not ridiculous, it's corruption.
- genieyclo 7y agoThis is America.
- bobjordan 7y agoThe former Iraq government led by Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was explicitly harboring terrorists. Largely due to this, a USA led coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, defeated the Sadam Hussein regime in a war, implemented a new regime, and have since been chasing terrorists out of caves in Iraq for the past 17 years. I expect the US officials will operate by whatever means are neccissary to ensure our security interests are served. Personally, if freezing bank accounts motivates the desired result, I'd prefer they freeze bank accounts versus blowing things (including people) up.
- ta999999171 7y agoThe result is staying, and blowing more people up.......
- xbmcuser 7y agoAh no he was tyrant and killed many of his own people but he was not harboring so called terrorists. That was the excuse Bush jr used to get into Iraq for it's oil ironically instead tech improvements got America over it dependence of foreign oil because of fracking. The so called terrorists were harbored in Afghanistan where USA wants to exit as soon as possible but it wants to stay in Iraq
- Boxbot 7y agoThe U.S. troops are in Iraq because they killed just about everyone who tried to stop them from being in Iraq. What's a little more economic warfare to throw on the pile of atrocities?