President Trump has announced that he will pull the remaining troops from Iraq.
After being in Iraq for two decades, the President says its time to go. “We’re helping where we can. But it’s a separate country. They have a prime minister. They have people in office. They have to run their country. We’ve been in Iraq for a long time.”
President Donald Trump meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 20, 2020. Sitting at right is Vice President Mike Pence. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added, “The president has made it clear he wants forces down to the lowest level as quickly as they can. That’s the vision he has given us, and we’re working with the Iraqis to achieve that.”
President Trump has squarely placed the blame for getting us involved in a two decade war on George W. Bush and his cronies.
Some “Republican” names that come to mind are Colin Powell *, John Kasich, and Cindy McCain (wife of deceased John McCain).
What’s curious about these three is that, in addition to still being pro Iraq war, all have thrown their support behind Joe Biden.
The president has also made candid comments about the military-industrial complex, the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy that lobbies for endless war so globalist defense contractors can keep cashing out on the blood of U.S. troops.
“We do have a military-industrial complex. They do like war!” Trump said last year. You have people here in Washington, they never want to leave! If it was up to them, they’d bring thousands of soldiers in. You do have a group, and they call it ‘the military-industrial complex.’ They never want to leave. They always want to fight.”
Which politicians are getting rich because of the war industry?
Trump added, “We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. Seven trillion.” And we lost 4584 young priceless irreplaceable Americans. Civilian and enemy casualties number in the millions.
President Trump has ingeniously tricked the desperate Democrats into rolling out the red carpet for the worst the Republican Party had to offer. The Democrats are the party of the failed Iraq War now, which Joe Biden voted to approve while he was Senator.
There are still about 5,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Iraq, in training and support roles.
Some interactive charts and graphs.
http://www.icasualties.org/chart/Chart
* Powell, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, was possibly much more than just horribly mistaken about WMD in Iraq: He allegedly fabricated “evidence” and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false.
