Remembering a man who might still be an honorable man
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-lieberman-warns-democrats-soleimani-strike
Lieberman warns Dems criticizing Soleimani strike: Votes won’t back anyone ‘who they don’t think is willing to use American force’
Getting a sore neck from being whipped one way and then the other
U.S. Army appeared to already have Arabic TRANSLATION of ‘draft’ letter that warned of U.S. withdrawal from Iraq—but Pentagon aide told Congress it was all ‘fake ... active disinformation’ from America’s enemies
General in charge of U.S. coalition forces in Iraq told military counterpart in a letter to prepare for helicopter flights as troops pull up stakes
Defense secretary told reporters that ‘there’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq, period’
Joint chiefs chairman confessed the letter was a ‘draft’ released by ‘mistake’
It would be ordinary to have a contingency plan that included an advisory letter to a host country, but a copy surfaced overnight that was translated into Arabic
That suggests it was finalized language, not a draft
Before officials briefed journalists, a Pentagon aide told a congressional committee that the letter was likely ‘a fake’ planted as disinformation
Donald Trump said Sunday that he would only withdraw troops if Iraq paid the U.S. for building and maintaining the main air base the coalition uses
He also threatened greater sanctions than those he has imposed on Iran
Iraq’s parliament had passed a resolution, which is nonbinding, urging the government to evict American troops
That was in response to Trump green-lighting a drone attack on an infamous Iranian military leader while he was in Baghdad, in Iraqi soil