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| US trainers will stay in Iraq , sez Maliki | |
| 2011-12-22 | |
In a press conference, held today, he added that they will be in their barracks, with possibilities to decrease this figure. Parliament foreign relations MP Sami al-Askari said, earlier, that the number of diplomats will reach to 1500, while other employees do not have US citizenship and have no immunity. Governmental responsible sources stated that 15.000 employees will remain in the US embassy after US forces withdrawal. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 The trainers are in Iraq w/ the embassy and have diplomatic immunity. Better than a SOFA but doesn't prevent them from being targets of Sunni terrorists or Iranian stooges. |
| Posted by: Ulose Munster2089 2011-12-22 20:21 |
| #4 "Obama would be a fool to send those trainers in." Then he'll send them, ZF. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-12-22 17:53 |
| #3 Without a SOFA covering them, Obama would be a fool to send those trainers in. What everybody forgets is that Maliki is an Islamist leading an Islamist party. It's kind of amusing how GWB ended up replacing a secular Sunni dictatorship with an Islamist Shiite-led democracy that is about to become an Islamist Shiite dictatorship. My bet remains that in the next decade, Iraq will revert to dictatorship, but this time, an Islamist one that is explicitly anti-American and expansionist rather than a secular one that merely has territorial ambitions in the region. It also looks as if we are about to replace a secular Alawite dictatorship in Syria with an Islamist Sunni dictatorship. The years ahead ought to be good for oil producers and arms manufacturers, as the Mid East prepares to fend off would-be Caliphs or Mahdis who now have resources of entire countries at their disposal, thanks to US. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-12-22 17:12 |
| #2 I don't disagree with the Iraq war, I felt we needed to give Islam a reasonable chance at democracy (and killed a lot of Jihadi who were drawn in like roaches) and Iraq was the best case scenario for that. I now feel we can turn our back on the entire region with a clean conscience. They can stand or fall on their own. Although, in hindsite, it might have been better, practical speaking, to smash Islamoids on the peripheries where Arab-imperialism is something we could have gotten support against. Little Turkish support for their brand of Islam to counter Wahhabism and we might have cut the worst of the cancer out of areas east of Pakistan. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-12-22 11:13 |
| #1 Get them out of there, now. I smell hostages, in fact if not in name. We should have left after crushing their army, and should never have tried to civilize them. Crush, rinse, and repeat as required. Screw this pacification/rebuilding/democratization crap. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2011-12-22 04:16 |