Posted on 01/05/2020 9:04:54 AM PST by rintintin
BAGHDAD — Lawmakers in Iraq voted on Sunday to require the government to end the presence of American troops in the country after the United States ordered the killing of the Iranian leader of the elite Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, on Iraqi soil.
The decision to heed the demands of angry Shiite factions and politicians came as hundreds of thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Iran to pay their respects to General Suleimani, the most powerful figure in the country after the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The vote is not final until Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi of Iraq signs the bill. But since he drafted the language and submitted the bill to Parliament, there was little doubt he would sign it.
LIVE UPDATES Iraqi lawmakers in Parliament called on the government to oust U.S. troops. Although the vote was 170-0 in Parliament, many of its 328 members, primarily Kurds and Sunnis, did not attend the session and did not vote, showing the division in Parliament on the demands to oust American troops. While groups that grew out of Shiite militia organizations have pushed hard for the expulsion, Sunni Muslim factions and the Kurds wanted the United States to stay.
The legislation threads a fine needle: While using strong language demanding that the government “end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil and prevent the use of Iraqi airspace, soil and water for any reason” by foreign forces, it gives no timetable for doing so.
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Qasem, the old transvestite, is still dead.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
I have to laugh at the media saying it’s unintended consequences. How do they know it was unintended, President Trump wants out of all these foreign entanglements, so being ordered out of Iraq, Trump could well say.....oh OK, and we’re gone.
Ok. Will they give us our money back?
“So Iran can come in and take over the country like they wanted to in 1988?”
I don’t know. As a general rule though, if a country - led by its elected president - asks a foreign power to leave, and it doesn’t leave, that power is no longer a “liberator” or “protector” - it becomes an occupier.
Trump could well say.....oh OK, and we’re gone
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I would rather he say AMF to these ingrates.
They may be asking us to leave but you can be sure they are not asking that our money leave. The greedy bastards still very much want that.
The NYT doesn’t have the mental faculties to grasp the difference between a non-binding resolution, and a binding piece of legislation.
More disinformation peddling by this propaganda mill.
Meanwhile Iranians were dancing in the streets at the news of this guy’s death.
I think they resolved that all foreign forces had to leave. Does that include Iran? If we get invaded, can we get rid of the invaders by a resolution? Why didn’t we do a resolution years ago?
Good point. I’m kind of hoping that happens.
Iran has already taken over Iraq through the parliament. Just like the drug cartels here have taken over the demoRat party here through “campaign contributions”.
Sweet, about time we got out of that hell hole. Let them eat their own dead after we’ve gone.
WE have the solution but not the cajones to enact it.
You say you want a resolution
Well, ya know
We all wanna change the world.
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, ya know
We all wanna change the world
lol
Then Trump should say “ Mission Accomplihed” and send our boys home
You say you got a real solution
Well ya know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well ya know
We all doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell ya is brother you got to wait.
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