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© 2021 AFPU.S. pledges Iraq troop withdrawal but without timeline
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Mark
Just hand it over to Iran. that is exactly what will happen as soon as NATO pulls out.
RichardPearce
The US is NOT 'handing it over to Iran' as the screamers like to emote, it is handing Iraq back to Iraqis after over half a century of either direct and open control through military occupation or indirect and openly secret control through its pet dictator, Saddam.
That the Iraqi population is predisposed to be friendly with its biggest neighbor was baked into the situation well before that. That the Iraqi population is eager to have a government that is VERY friendly with its democratic neighbor was baked in by the US backing Saddam while he was attacking the Iraqi population, the Iranian population and government welcoming Iraqis fleeing Saddams attacks, and then American attacks, as NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS, not refugees, for decades, and then teaching IRAQIS how to defend Iraq from America's replacement for Saddam, DAESH.
To put it in terms even the screamers can understand, turning the population of Iraq against Iran would be harder than turning the population of Canada against America.