Iraqi President Barham Salih issued a statement Friday angrily condemning a flurry of US airstrikes, saying they amounted to repeated violations of Iraqi sovereignty and threatened to provoke dangerous consequences.
Salih added that the US attacks amount to a “dangerous and deliberate weakening of its abilities especially at a time when Iraq faces unprecedented challenges.” Indeed, that the president is the one making responses at all shows the position Iraq is in. Normally this would be the purview of the PM, but Iraq simply doesn’t have one. The PM-designate has resigned, and the acting PM also resigned in recent weeks.
The US attacks targeted Iraqi PMF militia Kataib Hezbollah, and US officials insist they were “terrorist bases” that were legitimate to hit. The PMF is part of the Iraqi government, despite the US sense that they can attack them with impunity.
Salih’s big warning though was that in this current situation, Iraq could simply unravel under US pressure, ending up a failed state, and potentially fueling an ISIS resurgence.
These consequences seem lost on US officials, likely reflecting US rhetoric presenting the PMF as “Iranian-backed” groups, instead of what they are, militias under the Iraqi government that are heavily active in anti-ISIS operations.
The true motive of the US is to create a “failed state” so that they can remain in Iraq.
And a tripwire to attack Iran and Syria.
Or, make the U.S. a failed state.
With the economy in so much trouble under the pretext of the COVID-19 hybrid hoax, maximum pressure is also on trump by the Western financial elites to recapture Iran ASAP.
The Iraqi military condemned the strikes as a violation of its sovereign and targeted aggression against its official armed forces, with the Foreign Ministry announcing that the country will complain to the United Nations and the Security Council.
Yeah, all Iraqi legislative theatre.
The real action is the Iraqi government formally asking the U.S. military to leave Iraq, nothing less.
Until then, the U.S. is an invited guest welcome on Iraqi soil, like they were an invited guest of the South Vietnamese government in the 1960s.
Which is a slight improvement over being a naked invader was from 2003-2011, but not really.
Iraq thinks it’s a sovereign state. Remember when you asked us to leave?
Still no formal written notice…
The Iraqi politicians know the score. Make the appropriate noises to placate the public, and do nothing to endanger privileged access to U.S. dollars and market.
The USA is now falling apart, all citizens should be able to grasp that, the election of Trump brought out the GHOULS and the DEEP STATE, for all to view,,the ugly truth of the sham Republic, Democracy. Our soldiers die for nothing while at home stores are being emptied because of the total incompetence of our failed state. All of our great military is not going to do a dam# thing to get us out of this emergency, if indeed it is that. What a fuc#ed up mess the USA is and all it’s “exceptional people”. But hey!!,,Biden gonna fix it and free us “from our chains”!
Um, actually throughout all this, Trump has been the only one making any sense.
Which, admittedly, ain’t saying much.
But hey, the economy just tanked over a cold and everyone bought it. Making sense is not the agenda.
“These consequences seem lost on US officials, likely reflecting US
rhetoric presenting the PMF as “Iranian-backed” groups, instead of what
they are, militias under the Iraqi government that are heavily active
in anti-ISIS operations.”
Really ‘lost on US officials’, I don’t think so!
More like making sure our precious Al-Qeuda jihadi allies survive and regain their caliphate of the Levant.
The response to US attacks and the killing of 5 Iraqi`s, came in today`s rockets attack on the same Iraqi base where US & British soldiers were killed in similar attack this week.
The US will again respond in blind rage, attack and kill Iraqi`s who had
nothing to do with the rocket attack.
This spiral will continue until US casualty in the US election year will be unbearable and US occupation of Iraq must end.
Any individual who would fight a war on behalf of the deep state is an idiot.
Or a hapless victim of the lowered bar (boom?) of the poverty draft.
The COVID-19 hybrid hoax and stock market crash will likely impact civilian employment significantly, particularly among those with IT and other skills desired by the military.
Washingtons idea that killing more Iraqi’s will help solve the attacks on servicemen in Iraq is irrational. It seems more like a simple policy of hate and disregard for human life.
Actually is a calculated proxy war with Iran in Iraqi soil…
“ending up a failed state, and potentially fueling an ISIS resurgence.”
Which, along with an Iran war, is exactly what the US wants. An Iraqi failed state would be easier to deal with in an Iran war than one which supports Iran. And more ISIS means more US troops in the Middle East in any event and thus more war profits.
I’ve been re-watching season one of the TV show “Deep State”. Highly recommended. One episode involved the US conspirators getting an Iranian scientist to claim Iran is developing nukes at an ordinary power plant, then they arrange to send in a covert inspection team – which is then ambushed and murdered by US contractors wearing Quds Force uniforms – to justify a US military strike. Only intervention by the protagonist (portrayed by an excellent Mark Strong) forces the corporate conspirators to delay the war (and decide to focus on Yemen instead.)
This is the sort of thing the US does for real as the Iraqi air strikes demonstrate.
Yeah, the Deep State can’t stop preening itself on TV. The U.S. could end up the failed state though, the West to follow.
This isn’t 1929.where the U.S. was an untapped and mostly innocent sleeping giant with strong fundamentals upon entering the Great Depression,
Should’ve just kept the ball rolling and let COVID-19 panic remain a Chinese/Asian phenomenon.
This consolation reset for the globalist rich, may have undermined long-term capacity for effective economic competition with the Eurasian Century.
Iraq military demands US and foreign forces swiftly leave Iraq, following US air raids.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/03/14/620858/Iraq-military-demands-foreign-forces-swiftly-withdraw-following-US-air-raids
Again, not backed by a formal and unambiguous government request in writing.
Iraq is putting on its own version of legislative theatre.
Iraq keeps asking you to leave-GET OUT!
And what would you do if an uninvited guest decided to crash inside your house with a loaded military hardware? Call the police?
LOL. Good one!
America is the World Cop…
Actually, Iraq hasn’t had the guts to formally ask the U.S. to leave.
Sanctions war fear and COVID-19 fear (Iran being demonstrabiy hit unusually hard) and all that.
Still not seeing any formal written notice for the U.S. to leave Iraq; looks like proxy war with Iran in Iraq is a go.
Pepe Escobar wrote of a quadrillion dollar oil derivatives bubble all but preventing war with Iran. All they had to do was shut down the Strait of Hormuz and the financial system would collapse, affecting the elites the most.
That oil derivatives bubble now appears to have been unwound. [under cover of the COVID-19 hybrid hoax]. Although in theory derivatives should cancel out when unwound in a more controlled demolition, there would be considerable losses.
Except, quadrillions of elite losses have been translated into trillions in civilian losses out of the hides of retail investors and institutional holders of equities.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/financial-n-option-will-settle-trumps-oil-war/5699905
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-markets-global-idUSKCN20M2F6
Its surprising they would do something that dumb, but whatever. The oil derivatives bubble [was probably becoming independently unstable] anyway, desire for war with Iran notwithstanding.