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Qais al-Khazali, head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, also suggested U.S. troops may eventually be driven out by force if they do not yield to the will of the Iraqi people.
Great news for your Righteousness too! Take a chill pill.
âWe find these comments strange,â said Barham Salih
Welcome to our ongoing national nightmare/hangover, Mr. Salih! You seem to be fully up to speed.
Itâs Borowitz, but itâs not really parody this time.
Salih should follow The Speakers lead - insist trump beg âmother may i?â
As if we needed yet another confirmation that Donnie is a complete buffoon and diplomatic train wreckâŚ
Join the club.
Not sure why Barham Salih is spouting off, Donald Trump knows more about Iraq then he does.
As we donât really have a Department of State anymore, can any fellow TMPâers share what would have been the diplomatic norms, prior to Tillerson? I assume that the Iraqi leaders, including its president, would have worked through a public statement like this one, â 'We spent a fortune on building this incredible base,â Trump said. âWe might as well keep it.â" , with someone like Paul Bremer back in the day.
Are we just getting these Tweets from our allies (they are our ally, right?) because literally, no one is home at State and they are frustrated? I canât think of one statement from Iraqi leaders that was not something like, âwe continue to work with the US, blah, blah , blahâ between 2004 and 2016.
RELATED: what does it say about me that I am now able to automatically process how Trumpâs statement came to be? He ran this by â[his] Generalsâ and they reminded him that Iraq owns the base, so he was like, well, I think we should keep and then tweeted the thought in his brain. The stuff is so intuitive at this point it is like turning on a blinker when one wants to turnâŚ
SeeâŚthis is exactly like Churchill, right Newt? Except Churchill helped win World War II, leading to a new global order with Democratic Western Governments and Institutions taking charge, while Trump is determined to set it ablaze out of nihilistic pique.
Not based on todayâs reporting.
Funny how the Iraqis donât seem to trust Donnie. Iâm sure it has nothing to do with his repeatedly stated belief that we should just âtake the oil.â
Donât quote me but everything Iâve ever read about high-end gummint planning and communications would be like any other sophisticated groupâtheyâd look at options and then run their favored ones past everyone who could make an informed comment to avoid making HUGE AVOIDABLE ERRORS. You donât just blather out what you feel like as if youâre the 500-pound gorilla and you do what you want. Youâre aware of the delicate web of interests at play. Weâve thrown all that out the window.
For Donald Trump all the world is a nailâŚ
I do take some comfort on this. Hopefully this will offer some pushback on Israelâs constant attempts to goad us into attacking Iran.
Once again, trump puts american lives in danger needlessly.
Also, points for really polite trolling. (And the price for keeping US forces at that base just went way up.)
A lot of truth to that title!
When he said we would just keep the base, Iâm surprised he didnât tell the Iraqis âhey - be thankful you get to keep the oil!â Or maybe he did - I canât actually bear to watch or read too much at a time.
Republican presidents overburdening Iraq with their own issues is sort of a tradition around here.
Be very careful Mr. Salih, our poor excuse for a âpresidentâ may decide to launch 39 cruise missiles at an empty field near you.