US officials say that Patriot Missile systems and two other anti-missile and anti-aircraft systems are operational in Iraq now, following weeks of deployment. They are meant to protect US troops and their coalition allies.
Recently, bases with US troops in them have come under rocket fire, and this is meant to react to that, along with hypothetical attacks from Iran that almost certainly would only happen if the US attacked Iran again.
The US hadmissiles initially installed at Ayn al-Assad airbase and at a site in Irbil, Kurdistan. Others were installed at Camp Taji, near Baghdad. Further east, the US withdrew from some bases to avoid having to defend it.
There have been more reports on deploying the US missiles than rocket attacks in recent weeks, and officials no doubt want to emphasize action being taken amid allegations of a possible fight with Iraq or Iran.
I have been saying for years that we are never leaving Iraq NO matter what Iraqi administration tells us, or the people there, we are there to stay. It is an occupation. So, of course our soldiers are going to be attacked.
The patriots will be ineffective like the ones in Saudi Arabia…!
Our patriot missiles can end up on Assad’s Sunday dinner plate if we so desire to. They are that accurate.
Taxpayer money well-spent, I’m sure. NOT.
At least 30 Iranian guided missiles hit Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, home of the United States Air Force and largest base in Iraq. The pentagon now admits 109 casualties, there are many dead and the cover up is a disgrace.
Trump threatened to murder the PM of Iraq, ordered the Marines to murder protesters and ordered the murder of Soleimani while he was on a peace mission. Crimes don’t get worse than this. The death of the top CIA officer Mike D’Andrea “Prince of Darkness” involved in the US assassination of prominent Iranian General Qassem Soleimani is justice served.
As the Iraqi Prime Minister explained……..After my return from China, Trump called me and asked me to cancel the agreement, so I still refused, and he threatened me with massive demonstrations that would topple me. Indeed, the demonstrations started and then Trump called, threatening to escalate in the event I did not cooperate and do as he asked.
This is what led to the US Attacks on Iraqi Military and PMU Hundreds of Miles from the “Incident” at K1 base. The attack Trump claims to be retaliating against was against an Iraqi base, not an American base, an attack by ISIS where an American oil worker was killed on an Exxon oil facility…where oil has been stolen from Iraq for years. This is Trump escalating the situation in Iraq as he threatened to do.
The base which was attacked housed not just Iraqi regulars but PMF units, who were also attacked, the same units Trump says staged the attack. The attack was using a Romanian built 122mm rocket, that was supplied to ISIS by the US. The BBC admits that the K1 base housed PMF militias who were there to protect K1 from ISIS. Trump used his ISIS proxies to escalate by attacking K1. Trump then bombed PMU forces in northern Iraq who were actually fighting ISIS which then led to the US embassy being attacked, Trump then escalated further by murdering General Qassem Soleimani in the most despicable way possible
Impeach him and present him to the Hague….To all those people who support Trump, you are no better than he is.
The US deployed multiple batteries of Patriot Missiles to the base in May in case of such an attack. America’s air defense ships in the Persian Gulf stood down, no AEGIS or Patriot protection for 5000 US troops stranded in Iraq by Trump’s criminal insanity. With US forces on high alert, and billions of US air defense equipment on site we do not have one video of an incoming missile taken down when ballistic missiles are supposed to be the easiest to intercept.
If Trump retaliated the US troops would of been slaughtered. This is how Iranians saved Iraq from the Western backed terrorists. They put their lives on the line for Iraq and saved the country, that is why Iranians in Iraq are heroes, And that is why Trump murdered these Generals, and ISIS celebrated.
The disgrace is Democratic calls for war against Iran, just because it allows attacks on Trump.
The Democrats and Republicans are just two cheeks of the one corporate arse……Big corporate control of Government is Fascism.
Both Democrats and Republicans rely heavily on campaign donations from the military-industrial complex, so that’s who they take their orders from. They want to keep foreign wars going for as long as possible.
“Officials say missiles will defend US and coalition troops”
Of course, this is “defense”. why are the trops there after being asked to leave by a “sovereign country” you saved in 2003?????
Because Iraq is not a sovereign country, it is an occupied country and has been since 2003.
Those antiaircraft missiles are operational against what?
The only aircraft or drones bombing in Iraq are US and Israeli. The missiles certainly won’t stop those.
Iran only has ballistic missiles that these weapons failed to stop in the past, and drones they could not stop according to their own accounts of the attacks on Saudi oil production.
So just what are these doing in Iraq, other than keeping Americans in Iraq?
They are providing profits for the military-industrial complex, which is mostly what US wars are all about. And oil, of course.
Iraq has been an occupied country since 2003.