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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


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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1 posted on 01/06/2020 1:10:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

5D chess


2 posted on 01/06/2020 1:11:23 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: SeekAndFind
LIVE Breaking News ‏ @NewsBreaking BREAKING: Defense Secretary Esper says that the U.S. has no plans to pull out of Iraq - Reuters Confusing since he just said this
3 posted on 01/06/2020 1:11:29 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind

They may not like what they asked for.


4 posted on 01/06/2020 1:13:40 PM PST by Amish with an attitude
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To: SeekAndFind

And will then welcome in their ISIS over loards; let the beheading begin.


5 posted on 01/06/2020 1:13:41 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SeekAndFind; Drew68
Make them do more of what you want President Trump!

Maybe next he can get the Russians to build the Mars Rockets for us! :D

6 posted on 01/06/2020 1:14:33 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: SeekAndFind
Image result for art of the deal
7 posted on 01/06/2020 1:15:24 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: 2banana

Hoax.


8 posted on 01/06/2020 1:15:36 PM PST by lodi90
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BS News!


President Trump has threatened severe sanctions against Iraq after its parliament called on US troops to leave the country.


"We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that's there. It cost billions of dollars to build. We're not leaving unless they pay us back for it," he told reporters.

9 posted on 01/06/2020 1:16:01 PM PST by KavMan
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To: SeekAndFind; Fred Nerks

We pull out but we don’t pull out. Not hard to figure.

We send some troops home, but we keep drones and air support.

We then arm the Sunni militia in Iraq with all of our latest field toys and send our Special Ops with them.

It will work BIG LEAGUE.

Excellent!


10 posted on 01/06/2020 1:16:08 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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11 posted on 01/06/2020 1:16:30 PM PST by GulfMan
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To: 2banana

Didn’t the Philippines give Reagan some grief and told him to get our service people out of the country. And he did. Perfect!


12 posted on 01/06/2020 1:17:19 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: KavMan

I guess will have to wait and see what Omar says, she seems to know everything, she’ll tell us what to do


13 posted on 01/06/2020 1:17:48 PM PST by GulfMan
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To: SkyDancer

Hopefully, the Iraqis and Iranians go back to their traditional activity of killing each other, which keeps down the populations of both countries.


14 posted on 01/06/2020 1:17:54 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: GulfMan

Morons at Daily Mail can’t even spell nor construct sentences, so, No.


15 posted on 01/06/2020 1:18:23 PM PST by Swanks
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To: SeekAndFind
The Dems will go nuts.

How many times have the Dems said we should get out of Iraq? What they forgot is that there are several countries that make up the coalition in Iraq. Did they get letters, too?

16 posted on 01/06/2020 1:19:38 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

The Iranian shia government is now having a be careful what you wish for moment as our anti ISIS operation in Iraq pulls back to let the ISIS element aligned with the Iraqi sunnis attack the Iranian shia aligned with their Iraqi shia proxies. Brilliant move. It’s always nice we get them to thin out their herds


17 posted on 01/06/2020 1:19:48 PM PST by chuckee
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To: SeekAndFind

Already debunked as fake news.


18 posted on 01/06/2020 1:20:49 PM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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To: SkyDancer

RE: And will then welcome in their ISIS over loards; let the beheading begin.

Actually the more likely scenario is Iraq becomes a proxy for Iran.

Whether the other Iraqis ( e.g. the Sunnis and Kurds ) will want this is another story. Expect a civil war to happen in the future.


19 posted on 01/06/2020 1:21:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Thanks....we’ll keep watching. Iranians is Iraq is like the Dems in our country....They think they run it....but alas...


20 posted on 01/06/2020 1:21:10 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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