[FreedomPoster]

No arguments. I think we should have decamped from Turkey when they wouldn’t allow us to stage OIF from there in 2003. The handwriting was on the wall then. And I saw a talk from a journalist who barely got himself and his family out with their lives about 3-4 years ago, when Erdogan completely took over any independent media outlets. Very eye open, a view into what real tyranny looks like. They have no business in NATO or the EU.

But Trump has been distracted by the ongoing soft coup, I’ll give him a pass for not having extracted our forces after less than 3 years.

[JudgemAll]

That 2003 spat should have been reason enough to create a Kurdistan in Northern Iraq

But State department critters and communists are always around to make sure we make the worst of friends such as Sauds and Bahamians and abandon the best such as Iranians or Cubans

[wbarmy]

allow us to stage OIF from there in 2003.

I was in Iraq in 2003-2004. I have always believed and taught that this was the reason so many of Saddam's troops and weapons were able to dissipate into thin air. If we had come in from both directions, we would have captured many of those units in the field and been able to properly control the situation.

Because of Turkey, we had to send the troops all the way back to Kuwait, and gave them more time to prepare the insurgency.