Posted on 01/04/2020 10:34:16 PM PST by NorseViking
BAGHDAD — American oil workers were fleeing Iraq on Friday, as fears grew of war between the United States and Iran. At sermons in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, worshippers chanted, “Death to America!”
And in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, where anti-government protesters have gathered for months, a banner went up with a pointed message to both Iran and the U.S.: “Keep your conflicts away from Iraq.”
A Shocked Iraq Reconsiders Its Relationship With the U.S. Falih Hassan, Tim Arango and Alissa J. Rubin The New York TimesJanuary 4, 2020, 8:22 PM GMT+5 Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 1, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via The New York Times) Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 1, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via The New York Times) BAGHDAD — American oil workers were fleeing Iraq on Friday, as fears grew of war between the United States and Iran. At sermons in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, worshippers chanted, “Death to America!”
And in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, where anti-government protesters have gathered for months, a banner went up with a pointed message to both Iran and the U.S.: “Keep your conflicts away from Iraq.”
Iraqis awoke to the news Friday that Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani of Iran, the architect of Iran’s dominating influence over Iraq, had been killed in a U.S. drone strike, along with several others.
Even before the shock of the brazen killing wore off, Iraqi factions were weighing their responses. Militias with ties to Iran vowed bloody revenge. Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi condemned the attack as “an outrageous breach to Iraqi sovereignty” and said parliament would meet to discuss the future of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
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...and every day is a holy day
Fine, they can go it alone.
Fine, should have never been there in the first place.
...George.
Uh, no. We leave, and don't come back unless attacks on US interests are launched from Iraq.
Stop living in 2003.
What absolute garbage from the cesspool of media. NYT is the floater that won’t flush.
“When you’re taking flak, you know you’re over the target”.
We don't NEED their oil fields. Fracking has taken care of THAT problem.
+1
“Forget money deals. You killed the guy great. Now get every American civilian and military out if iraq.”
I agree, I was referring to Trump’s demands to S. Korea, Japan and others not to Iraq.
“Mixed feelings on this one, I would prefer to fight the ragheads on their turf opposite ours.”
If we leave they will be too busy killing eachother to bother us.
We do need their oil fields to keep pressure on both Iran and Iraq. Sell it to the good guys and absolutely destroy the economies of the bad actors.
Iraq doesn’t approve that we killed an Iranian responsible for the death and/or maiming of hundreds of Americans? ESAD.
The issue is that US has some generals responsible for killing many Iraqis. How would you feel if they’d bomb some of them if JFK killing some innocents in process?
Another point is Iraqis are viewing ISIS as a big threat.
This general represented a force fighting ISIS and US military is viewed as an ally and sponsor of ISIS.
That is it.
Wait, what?
If =in.
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