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France to U.S: Don't withdraw from Afghanistan or Iraq
https://www.reuters.com ^ | 11/14/2020 | By Reuters Staff

Posted on 11/14/2020 1:17:29 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

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To: RomanSoldier19

The United States has had troops there Long enough.It’s time too go. Let Iraq defend Itself. They don’t need us baby sitting them.

If the Europeans wish they can defend Iraq and Syria. our time is up.


21 posted on 11/14/2020 1:59:15 PM PST by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Your turn, take it away, France!


22 posted on 11/14/2020 2:01:25 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ghislaine Maxwell lives and Joe Biden is losing.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Libya, Iraq, Obama, narcissist and Biden. Oh, and Hillary. Or is it Rice?

All of them need to sink in quicksand.


23 posted on 11/14/2020 2:05:55 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: Iowa Slim

“Didn’t France try hard to stop us from going into Iraq and Afghanistan right after 9/11?”

and guess what happened? Dubya handed ALL the oil contracts to French and German oil companies instead of American-based companies.


24 posted on 11/14/2020 2:06:22 PM PST by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry)
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To: qaz123

Why should they care - there aren’t a lot of socialist’s kids that will be impacted.


25 posted on 11/14/2020 2:06:28 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: shanover

Yep.


26 posted on 11/14/2020 2:06:52 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RomanSoldier19

Stuff it France.

You don’t make America’s military decisions.


27 posted on 11/14/2020 2:06:53 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: FLT-bird

And at YOUR own expense.


28 posted on 11/14/2020 2:07:47 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: qaz123

Of course America will be back in a war in Middle East and all of the progress Trump has made there and around the world for peace will be lost. Not hard to predict.


29 posted on 11/14/2020 2:10:29 PM PST by WVNan
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To: RomanSoldier19

Let them kill each other with abandon within their own borders, I do not care. If they kill only 1 of mine outside their borders kill 1000 of them. They will soon lose their desire to harm us. Death is a hell of a statement and it works in all cultures and religions.


30 posted on 11/14/2020 2:19:26 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Since it looks like Biden might steal the election, I have seen an uptick in the call the US to get back into endless wars, useless conflicts, and nation building by the liberal media and by foreign countries? Anyone else notice this?


31 posted on 11/14/2020 2:19:27 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: WVNan

It’s a desired outcome.


32 posted on 11/14/2020 2:47:10 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: RomanSoldier19; Fred Nerks

“Au Resevoir” mes amis!

Depechez Vous, silver plate!


33 posted on 11/14/2020 2:50:02 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: FLT-bird

Frenchy-frenchman can afford nuclear weapons, the same frenchy-frenchman can send in his troops.


34 posted on 11/14/2020 2:55:03 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
“Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men? It is the music of a

people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes

the beating the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when

tomorrow comes!”

35 posted on 11/14/2020 2:58:42 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: WVNan; qaz123

There is no doubt a Biden administration would be looking for foreign adventures as soon as possible to please its globalist backers which pretty much comprises the sum total of their financial support.


36 posted on 11/14/2020 2:58:51 PM PST by TigersEye (Just call me President Elect TigersEye)
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To: Iowa Slim; All

“Didn’t France try hard to stop us from going into Iraq and Afghanistan right after 9/11?”

There was a UN/Iraq “Oil for Food” program, as Saddam wasn’t interested in really feeding people much, which was being used primarily by:

Russia, China, Germany, and France, to illegally re-arm Saddam, and rapidly re-build his early warning radar and SAM sites, all over Iraq, with 3rd Gen surface to air missile system capability.

North Korea was the usual “Chinese whipping boy”, with both Chinese and NK missiles being shipped to Iraq in NK vessels.

So, the UN Iraq “Oil for Food” program was indeed being violated by France, who like Russia, China, and Germany, was taking the oil, but just not in exchange for food so much.

France wasn’t just initially against the US forming a new coalition to go back into Iraq, they were essentially trading weapons for oil with Saddam. While not alone or the worst culprit, France was involved in warning Saddam (and others) when the US and British (NATO) planes were to run surveillance flights over certain areas within the greater Iraqi “No Fly Zone”.

Remember all the left wing protests across the US and EU about Bush and “War for Oil!”

That was literally left wing propaganda projection SOP, with a thousand calendar scheduled TV cameras.

It was also within the same timeframe of Iraq’s UN “Oil for Food” program, that Putin attempted to rapidly move, and was likely successful in moving a volume of approx 130—140 thousand drums of chemical segregates, mixed, and also solids from the previously Russian built, 4,500 ft deep plus +, Al Muthana chemical weapons production and storage site, west of Ballad, Iraq — TO a dozen Russian designed and built chemical storage sites, mostly in Eastern and Central Syria. Russia could only move as much Chem as they had new stable space for in Syrian UFAC’s. Putin couldn’t get it all out in time, before we went back into Iraq in 2003.

And the whole time it was literally the leftist governments of the EU and world setting up war.


37 posted on 11/14/2020 3:51:43 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: WVNan

I was there as a soldier and as a contractor. The Dem’s are as dirty as the day is long. Especially those clowns in the State Dept. They love funneling money to their buddies for those kickbacks.

But, didn’t the Dem’s preach to the world during Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom that we shouldn’t be there. Putting the names of the soldiers names on tv every night. Wanting to end all wars.

And what have they done since the President has been in office, try to get him to send troops everywhere they don’t need to be, dying for no reason. The Party of Peace.


38 posted on 11/14/2020 4:54:34 PM PST by qaz123
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To: RomanSoldier19

It isn’t their decision. We can’t afford to pretend to be building democracies anymore.


39 posted on 11/14/2020 6:09:29 PM PST by tbw2
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To: RomanSoldier19

We should withdraw all of our troops, quietly by Christmas.


40 posted on 11/14/2020 6:11:55 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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