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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:23 PM Jan 2020

We're apparently leaving Iraq

I don't even understand this world anymore

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We're apparently leaving Iraq (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2020 OP

Meanwhile the Pentagon is still denying it. BigmanPigman Jan 2020 #1

There are multiple translations of the letter Amishman Jan 2020 #5

Now Gen Milley says the letter should not have been released EleanorR Jan 2020 #8

i check out of DU for a few hours dweller Jan 2020 #2

All I did was go put a pumpkin pie in the oven eleny Jan 2020 #6

Get out quick before they change their mind. Hoyt Jan 2020 #3

Some Generals will be resigning soon. C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #4

The Pentagon denies this thus far. herding cats Jan 2020 #7

They are getting them out of the target zone for nukes... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #9

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

1. Meanwhile the Pentagon is still denying it.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:29 PM

Jan 2020

Huh?!?

Amishman

(5,557 posts)

5. There are multiple translations of the letter

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:32 PM

Jan 2020

One says we are withdrawing, the other says we are just shifting where our troops are located within the country

I do not know which is accurate

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)

8. Now Gen Milley says the letter should not have been released

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:35 PM

Jan 2020

JFC

Link to tweet

dweller

(23,642 posts)

2. i check out of DU for a few hours

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:30 PM

Jan 2020

and check back wondering "what fresh hell?"
go to bed at nite wondering if there will be a world to wake to...
wake with relief at the light, check in here wondering
"what fresh hell?"
😖

✌🏼

eleny

(46,166 posts)

6. All I did was go put a pumpkin pie in the oven

Reply to dweller (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:32 PM

Jan 2020

"what fresh hell?" - is right.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Get out quick before they change their mind.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:31 PM

Jan 2020

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)

4. Some Generals will be resigning soon.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:31 PM

Jan 2020

This is a total clusterfuck and the Commander is a moron.

herding cats

(19,565 posts)

7. The Pentagon denies this thus far.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:35 PM

Jan 2020

What appears to be confirmed is we're moving troops around in Iraq. Where they end up is still unclear.

I just found this article stating Iraq now only wants our combat forces out.

Officials in Iraq have stepped back from threats to expel US forces after Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions over the Iraqi parliament’s vote for a retaliation for the killing of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad by a US drone strike.

The military spokesman for the acting Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, who met with the US ambassador on Monday to implement the decision, said any withdrawal would only involve combat forces and not training and logistical support for the Iraqi military, which have been core components of the US presence in Iraq in recent years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/iraq-scales-down-threats-to-expel-us-forces-after-trump-retaliation

If the letter is to be taken literally, then some troops could be relocated to other bases in the region.

getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)

9. They are getting them out of the target zone for nukes...

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 05:43 PM

Jan 2020

Iran is a nuclear power. If he is planning a first strike, this would make sense.

Baghdad is close enough to be targeted.

Trump will probably order an attack on irans nuclear labs, storage areas and missile sites. He is dumb enough to use nukes to get the deep underground sites.

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