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BREAKING NEWS: Chaos over U.S. troops in Iraq as Pentagon insists they WON'T withdraw despite general leading anti-ISIS coalition saying they'll move 'out of Iraq' in draft letter released by mistake amid anger over attack that killed Qassem Soleimani
Daily Mail ^
| 01/06/2020
| By DAVID MARTOSKO
Posted on 01/06/2020 1:10:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
BREAKING NEWS: U.S.-led military coalition says it will WITHDRAW from Iraq after country's parliament voted for anti-ISIS troops to leave in wake of Qassem Soleimani's death
- General in charge of U.S. coalition forces in Iraq tells military counterpart to prepare for helicopter flights as troops pull up stakes
- Letter says troops will soon begin flying out in transport helicopters under cover of darkness
- 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
The U.S. military informed its counterparts in Baghdad on Monday it was preparing for 'movement out of Iraq,' a day after the Iraqi parliament urged the government in a non-binding resolution to oust foreign troops.
The head of the U.S. military's Task Force Iraq, Brigadier General William Seely, sent a letter to the head of Iraq's joint operations command, a copy of which was seen by several news agencies.
'Sir, in deference to the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, and as requested by the Iraqi Parliament and the Prime Minister, [the coalition] will be repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for onward movement,' Seely wrote.
'We respect your sovereign decision to order our departure,' the letter said.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: coalition; dailymail; davidmartosko; iran; iraq; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; seebreakingnews; soleimani; unitedkingdom
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It was some stupid 1 Star General that made that foolish remark about withdrawing!
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:09:10 PM PST
by
KavMan
To: SeekAndFind
The only chaos is with the media.
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:14:38 PM PST
by
HollyB
To: KavMan
"It was some stupid 1 Star General that made that foolish remark about withdrawing!"Now doing latrine duty in some tropical barracks.
To: SeekAndFind
This is SPY bait—— a strategic data point “leaked” authentically..... and they will roll up all of the network that released it, the US one, and the Iraqi one, and especially the comm chain of custody to... the Iranians/Shia Iraqi Militia.
Very nicely done. Next Predator attack target acquisition in process, and POOF! no more network. The essence of asymmetric warfare.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:00:00 PM PST
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Candor7
Current Saudi regime’s clearance of any and all “Sunni” militia-— that is making certain they are not going to frag our spec ops— not rotten apples or worms in them.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:02:26 PM PST
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: John S Mosby
Yep, and it all will happen in about 7 days. Then look out. The Shia militias are going to get such a chewing they will run all the way back to the 12th Imams well in Iran.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:07:01 PM PST
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: Candor7
And a major reason Saud will do this— is that Quds Force was supporting (and still is there) the Yemen terrorists the Saudis are fighting. Highly motivated to make sure the Sunni militia are true defenders of the faithful, against the apostates. Keep them at this.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:20:07 PM PST
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: HollyB
Yeah, the media cry “Chaos!” over nothing.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:23:26 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: mrsmith
Because the press goes on and reports on things before verification - when it turns out to be wrong -they say theres chaos. When it was them that caused the confusion to begin with. The ducks are in a row in the DOD and Oval Office.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:42:01 PM PST
by
HollyB
To: HollyB
“When it turns out to be wrong -they say theres chaos”
So true.
Their first job is to cover for themselves.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:45:35 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:56:50 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:56:53 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:56:56 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:57:02 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: SeekAndFind
If the soldiers are being pulled out, pull out all of the diplomats and supporting staff with them.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:58:37 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: SeekAndFind
Hmmmm... It brings to mind the old tune sung by Jimmy Durante.. “Did you every have the feeling that you wanted to go, you wanted to go but you wanted to stay, stay go, go stay... Ha-cha-cha...!”
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posted on
01/07/2020 5:44:40 AM PST
by
unread
(A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
To: SeekAndFind
....or did we uncover more deep-state in the military? if not a planned event, heads better roll.
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posted on
01/07/2020 12:00:58 PM PST
by
gdc61
(LOL not.)
To: gdc61
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posted on
01/07/2020 12:04:15 PM PST
by
sport
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