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Iraq is caught in the middle as Iran and U.S. trade blows

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By SAMYA KULLAB and QASSEM ABDUL-ZAHRA

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Time to get U.S. troops out of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

It's going to take time, as Trump is up against the powerful Deep State that wants to see the U.S. military remain in the Middle East forever.

It will be interesting to see how popular Iran is in Iraq after we leave.

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It's going to take time, as Trump is up against the powerful Deep State that wants to see the U.S. military remain in the Middle East forever.

Aw, poor Rump.

Stop making excuses for this ridiculous excuse for a man not living up to his promises.

Pathetic.

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Trump is up against the powerful Deep State

Too many Marvel comics taken seriously. Trump may not know much about economics, but he knows big money is made through wars. And rumors of wars. Trump is the 'global elite establishment's' champion. Has anyone seen his latest tax info to see which oil, Wall Street and defense corporations he and Ivanka/jared have investments in?

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Too many Marvel comics taken seriously. Trump may not know much about economics, but he knows big money is made through wars.

Unions are big money for Democrats.

And rumors of wars. Trump is the 'global elite establishment's' champion.

Far from it, he’s a Real Estate mogul, now Rex Tillerson, that’s a different story.

Has anyone seen his latest tax info to see which oil, Wall Street and defense corporations he and Ivanka/jared have investments in?

No one really cares about and they still voted for him, that’s telling right there. Haters need to give it up, he won’t and doesn’t need to show them at this point.

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And rumors of wars. Trump is the 'global elite establishment's' champion.

@basf4Far from it, he’s a Real Estate mogul, 

who's allowing Ivanka and Jared to use info got through his office to expand their family's global businesses, and who's doing whatever he can to help further enrich the globe's elite establishment.

now Rex Tillerson, that’s a different story.

On that I agree. Rex cared little if anything about the US, only about how he could use the country to expand big oil's global fortunes. (see Tillerson's deals with Putin) Which Trump continues to help them do. But then big corporations like the ones backing Trump rarely if ever are loyal to a nation.

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who's allowing Ivanka and Jared to use info got through his office to expand their family's globalbusinesses,

I think you need to turn off CNN. Here’s the thing, years and years ago, Ivanka and her brothers worked only in the family business, they had a fe small projects, but they were bred and grew up in Real Estate, it’s in their blood. Now if you want to make the accusation that so many have tried to and failed that they are in some strange way using the WH for profiting (whatever that means) then where’s the proof?

On that I agree.

Thank you. That’s all I wanted and needed to hear.

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Lets not forget those “Iranian backed militias” are actually Iraqis. The Iraqi militias that are part of the Iraqi military structure. The Shia who we are talking about are 60-65% of the population.

The US has few friends in Iraq, there were the Kurds but Trump sold them out. The Kurds are pretty friendly with Iranians. We can expect attacks on the troops of the US and its partners in the near future if they choose to outstay their welcome.

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Time to get U.S. troops out of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

Don't forget Saudi Arabia

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Iraq just wants to focus on getting their own country sorted out, if possible without IS, without Iran and without the US and all other foreign forces.

They have more than enough problems already with their Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish populations, unable so far either to build a political structure that reflects that background harmoniously, or to chose a strong leader over all.

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