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US Says It's Not Discussing Withdrawing From Iraq (news.antiwar.com)
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Iraq’s government has been under pressure to expel the US since January 2020, when a US drone strike in Baghdad killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani and PMF leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. After the strike, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel US forces, but the US refused to leave.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why do we need troops in Iraq when we have an ally like Israel in the area?

I thought the entire point of Israel is that US has a foothold in the region? Why do we have bases in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Why have 2 of anything?

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably something about not having all your eggs in one basket.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but after a certain number of baskets, it turns from using baskets to store eggs, to using eggs to mark baskets.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why have over 800 military bases around the world?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's my point ... We really don't need israel to be america. Fuck these genocidal savages let them stand on their own after they are done milling off gazans!

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably just cultural hegemony. American liberals see Israelis as "white" so they'll back them to the hilt. Christian fascists see them as ushering in the end times. No president wants to be the one that lost that foothold in the ME. Probably a lot of people in power directly benefit from bribery or are at risk of losing a lot via blackmail. Like Bill Clinton was.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes rich Americans and fundies are "benefiting"

Wage slaves aint...

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yet they defend the people and the system that oppresses them en masse.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 months ago

That's what happens when bootlickers do the enforcement for the regime...

American citizen is so poorly efucated, they can't name who opresses them or rules them lol

[–] firewood010@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because Israel's interest doesn't align with the US perfectly?

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Really? Do you have an example of this?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The current season of the In the Dark podcast is examining a likely-illegal mass killing in Haditha, Iraq, by USA marines in 2005. I recommend it to anyone who’s interested in serious investigative journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  1. Zainab Younis Salim, 5—daughter.
  1. Aisha Younis Salim, 3—daughter.
  1. A 1-year-old girl staying with the family.

Jesus Christ

By June 17, 2008, six defendants had their cases dropped and a seventh was found not guilty.

[–] Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of us saw this happening way back in 2003. US is not going to leave.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Super cool that new privates headed to Iraq weren't alive when that particular conflict started. Super cooool