President Trump’s surprise visit to Iraq on Wednesday has a number of top Iraqi figures deeply critical,
and that criticism has grown substantially with the revelation that a
meeting with the Iraqi premier was canceled at the last minute over some
minor disagreement.
MP Sabah al-Saadi called an emergency session of Iraq’s parliament to
discuss Trump’s visit, which he described as a “blatant violation of
Iraq’s sovereignty,” Opposition MPs also issued a statement terming the
visit a “clear violation of diplomatic norms,” and says his canceled
meeting showed “his disdain and hostility in his dealings with the Iraqi
government.”
Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi’s office said Trump had given him advanced
notice of the visit, and that the two spoke by telephone after the
meeting was canceled over a disagreement on the location of the meeting.
Trump wanted to meeting at the Ain al-Asad base, and Abdul-Mahdi didn’t
want to go there.
Falih Khazali, a militia leader turned MP, accused the Trump
Administration of wanting to increase their military presence in Iraq
“under any pretext,” while his party expressed concerns about what the
US goals in Iraq really are.
We already know from the other article here that POTUSTRUMP wants to use Iraq to move troops back into Syria . Sovereignty-what a wonderful thing we have brought to Iraq.
To be fair, he said that he’d use them IF we had to send troops back into Syria.
“Sovereignty”? What sovereignty?
More to the point, the US has announced new US bases in Iraq, right at the Syrian border, to replace the “withdrawal” from Syria.
More than likely the Secret Service advised him to cancel, because they felt it was an unsafe location.
Even in a “safe” location he looked even more enormous than usual in the video. Jacket over huge white shirt over thick body armor?
Heh, no authorization to land…the “anti-intervention prez ” commits an act of war personally.
Rattle his strings a bit and remind him of how he got there.