Posted on 03/14/2026 4:52:04 PM PDT by McGruff
The US embassy in Baghdad has warned its citizens to leave Iraq "immediately". It also urges anyone who is thinking about staying put to "reconsider".
"Iran and its aligned terrorist militias pose a major threat to public safety in Iraq. Attacks have occurred against US citizens, US interests, and critical infrastructure," it writes on X.
As we reported earlier, the embassy building was hit in an attack on Saturday - watch our video of thick smoke rising from the site below.
"Do not attempt to come to the Embassy in Baghdad or the Consulate General in Erbil due to the ongoing risk of rockets, drones, and mortars in Iraqi airspace," the embassy says.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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Who would go to Iraq in the first place?
Vacation plans ruined again!
Damn. There’s goes my vacation in Fallujah. I already paid for the hotel and spa
Contractors.
Last I heard, we still have some troops there.
Troops get orders.
Thanks to Democrats and foolish Republicans
the enemy (Islam) is already here on our own soil. Where do we run away to now? Why are so many people fooled into thinking Islam is somehow a Noble religion? It has been the central enemy of Civilization for over a thousand years. What use to be a major Christian Civilization, the last part of the Roman empire, was crushed by this common Islamic enemy. Persecution of Christians in the Holy land led to Crusades against these monsters! And yet treasonous Western leaders invite them in and give them free stuff in spite of all that rapey stabby stuff they bring with them .
Next on the agenda Make Iraq Great Again.
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Only the bravest soldiers.
I know some people stuck in Baghdad and Erbil as contractors keeping the embassy and consulate compounds running. They are their own little cities and have their own infrastructures. If the contractors have to leave, those places are done.
Damn there goes my vacation plans, I had tickets and everything/sarc
True. Civilian contractors who support them are being warned to leave by our State Department. I thought that would be obvious, given what I wrote, but I guess it wasn’t obvious to you somehow.
Might as well go to East St. Louis now.
Im in Commiefornia, honestly you wouldnt notice the difference between here and Iraq anyway
“ Sounds like the Iran hornets nest is beginning to stir “
Perhaps a ground operation is going into Iran from Iraq….and any IRGC left will be aiming in that direction. Either that, or it’s going to be a decoy.
You are on a roll tonight. Very Funny.
“Damn there goes my vacation plans, I had tickets and everything”
Me to...my poppy farms don’t run themselves.
“Might as well go to East St. Louis now.”
My youngest son went there for an antique cartridge show. He said it was wild.
“Who would go to Iraq in the first place?”
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People working there or those of have family in Iraq. There are Americans working in nearly every country around the world.
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