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on Twitter, quoting Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as saying that the letter had been a draft and that releasing it had been a mistake—but that it had been sent to the Iraqi military and then released by the Iraqi prime minister’s office. Whoops!Iraqi parliament’s unanimous vote
on Sunday calling for the country’s government to order the removal of U.S. troops from the country in the wake of the airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as well as a senior commander of Iraq’s state-backed Shiite militias. There’s no formal basing agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, like there was before the last troop withdrawal in 2011. U.S. troops returned to the country in 2014 to fight ISIS, and around 5,000 remain at the Iraqi government’s invitation.
Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi spoke in support of the measure, but the legislation isn’t binding, and it’s not clear how he would proceed with forcing U.S. troops out or how much he even wants to. President Donald Trump reacted angrily to the vote,Given that it’s not clear U.S. troops would actually be required to leave Iraq at this time, it would certainly be an odd decision for the U.S. to do it unilaterally. The U.S.
It would also be strange for the U.S. to accede to a major Iranian demand right now. The contest for influence in Iraq was, after all, the main reason for the recent round of tension and violence. Soleimani fought for nearly two decades to force the U.S. out of Iraq. Is the U.S. really going to grant him his wish just days after killing him?
The vagueness of the draft statement gives the U.S. a lot of wiggle room to avoid a full troop withdrawal. At this point, we should know better thanIt seems more likely the Trump administration is considering calling the Iraqi government’s bluff by keeping its troops in the country for the foreseeable future. It should probably figure out if that’s what it actually wants to do—and until it does, stay away from that send button.
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