Wait. Key allies?
When did this happen. I could swear they hated each other like Montagues and Capulets.
Ten year war ring a bell?
Posted on 05/27/2019 12:33:35 AM PDT by McGruff
Iraq offered to mediate in the crisis between its two key allies, the United States and Iran, amid escalating Middle East tensions and as Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers steadily unravels.
Iraqi foreign minister, Mohammed al-Hakim, made the offer Sunday during a joint news conference in Baghdad with visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.
"We are trying to help and to be mediators," said al-Hakim, adding that Baghdad "will work to reach a satisfactory solution" while stressing that Iraq stands against unilateral steps taken by Washington.
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Wait. Key allies?
When did this happen. I could swear they hated each other like Montagues and Capulets.
Ten year war ring a bell?
Well ya see the brilliant invasion of Iraq had, among other GREAT outcomes, the result of making a GREAT foil to Iran now a BFF to Iran.
I hope the temperature adjuster on the bed that the bushes and sauds have to share in hell is set at 1,000,000 degrees.
BTW, how the heck are ya? :)
you are right, we drove Iraq right into Iran’s arms. I wish we’d pull out of all that area. Only Israel is our friend there
Agreed.
And I’m sure Israel has no desire to see us put boots on the ground in Iran.
They know they and the Sauds (90 percent Israel) along with US support can utterly destroy Iran from the skies and even arm the large portion of young Iranians who HATE this regime.
Too bad Trump wasnt in office instead of obozo during the uprising.
I agree. When Iraq and Iran were of relatively equal strength and each were led by different types of madmen, and after having slaughtered each other for ten years, there was some balance of power.
Then we went and weakened Iraq to the point that the Iran raggedys just moseyed on in.
And now they're "allies".
Now the main conflict is between Saudi and it's Arab allies and Iran and it's.
Trump is doing a very good job of isolating Iran, even from Russia.
I hate to see Iraq call Iran an ally, though. Troublesome.
Whatever happened to Iraq anyway? :)
I have to read up on them. I dont even know what type of govt they have or if things AT LEAST turned out somewhat well after the TONS of $$ and much worse, lives we poured into it.
It DIDNT have to be a disaster.
Bush could have kept paying part of the army and the police to keep peace there and focused on keeping Iran out and corporate looters from stealing trillions from us instead of actually rebuilding the country.
Many Iraqis were slightly optimistic in the beginning.
We ####ed that up.
Oh well.
Ciao
Obama F'd that up. Him and his damn caliphate he tried to put in place.
Word to the wise.
NEVER elect a moslem President.
I have to put it on Boosh and Obozo. I can’t imagine we don’t have any deep thinkers in DC to understand that when we overthrew Saddam who was a minority Sunni that after the fact the Shia would gain power and align with Iran. Now the entire Middle east is a cluster F.
Agreed.
Considering they both were playing for the same team.
#DerpState
That was between Saddam and the Ayatollah.
Geopolitical lesson - the Iranians and the Mesopotamians have been interconnected for 2500 years. Right from 500 BC to the 1800s most “Iranian” empires had their capitals near “Iraq” - Ctesiphon (a suburb of Baghdad) etc.
Iraq had Sunnis as the elite and Shia as the underclass. Iran from the 1700s had the Shia as the elite. The Safavids forcibly converted Iran to Shia’ism and kept its holy site at Najaf and Karbala in what is now Iraq.
In the 60s Iraq and Iran were more or less at peace.
Saddam was a secular monster but with a Sunni background so he feared Iranians as potential rulers. When the Shah was overthrown, he saw the chance to strike.
That led to the 8 year war which ended in a stalemate. Note the 8 year war actually cemented the Ayatollahs in Iran as they were able to portray themselves as the safeguard of the nation. A US attack on Iran would do the same now. In contrast the past 20 years of boycott have led to mosques being empty on Friday and most people being anti-Ayatollah.
Its a joke. Get it? Iran’s Shia proxy wants to negotiate between its Shia masters and the US - what could be fairer and more impartial? HHAHAHA
FYI
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