01-05-2020, 01:37 PM
** 05-Jan-2020 World View: Iraq 'votes' for US withdrawal
Iraq's parliament has voted to "call for" the withdrawal of US troops.
But it's non-binding, and the session was boycotted by the Sunni and
Kurdish groups, so only the Iran-backed MPs voted for it. It's
reported that these MPs are under enormous pressure from Iran.
Opposition figures in Iraq say that Iraq will no longer be able to
defend itself without the support of American troops and point to the
fact that ISIS took over 2/3 of the country the last time that the US
withdrew. Most Iraqis do not trust Iran-backed People's Mobilization
Forces (PMFs) to protect Iraq, and many consider the PMFs to be worse
than ISIS. Even those who dislike America's assassination of
Soleimani still trust America far more than they trust the PMFs.
Protesters in the Iraqi streets have been calling for Iran to
withdraw.
Iraq's government is in shambles, with the prime minister having had
to resign because of the recent massive anti-Iran anti-government
protests in the streets. The acting PM cannot do much until there's a
new election.
Iran's puppet Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah gave the usual
speech on Sunday about how horrible Americans are, but did not go
farther to say that Hezbollah would participate in the retaliation
against America. Al-Jazeera says that this omission is a surprise,
but it's happening because Lebanon's government is itself in shambles,
because of recent massive anti-government protests, and they don't
want Lebanon to be dragged into the clash between US and Iran.
In Washington, the hysterics continue. The idiots are no longer
predicting war by Monday, so the idiots have already been forced to
back down from that certain prediction. Now they're just saying that
killing Soleimani will turn out to be the greatest foreign policy
blunder in the history of the country, or possibly the world.
The basics that I've described in my last two articles have not
changed, in terms of generational attitudes following from the
extremely bloody Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, which killed 1.5 million
people. None of the idiots that you hear on TV take into account
Iran's history, Iraq's history, or that many Iranians hate Iraqis, and
that many Iraqis hate Iranians, after the atrocities they perpetrated
on each other in the 1980s.
As usual, if you want to believe stupid things, then listen to the
idiots in Washington. If you want to know what's actually going on in
the world, then follow the Generational Dynamics analyses that I've
been posting.
Iraq's parliament has voted to "call for" the withdrawal of US troops.
But it's non-binding, and the session was boycotted by the Sunni and
Kurdish groups, so only the Iran-backed MPs voted for it. It's
reported that these MPs are under enormous pressure from Iran.
Opposition figures in Iraq say that Iraq will no longer be able to
defend itself without the support of American troops and point to the
fact that ISIS took over 2/3 of the country the last time that the US
withdrew. Most Iraqis do not trust Iran-backed People's Mobilization
Forces (PMFs) to protect Iraq, and many consider the PMFs to be worse
than ISIS. Even those who dislike America's assassination of
Soleimani still trust America far more than they trust the PMFs.
Protesters in the Iraqi streets have been calling for Iran to
withdraw.
Iraq's government is in shambles, with the prime minister having had
to resign because of the recent massive anti-Iran anti-government
protests in the streets. The acting PM cannot do much until there's a
new election.
Iran's puppet Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah gave the usual
speech on Sunday about how horrible Americans are, but did not go
farther to say that Hezbollah would participate in the retaliation
against America. Al-Jazeera says that this omission is a surprise,
but it's happening because Lebanon's government is itself in shambles,
because of recent massive anti-government protests, and they don't
want Lebanon to be dragged into the clash between US and Iran.
In Washington, the hysterics continue. The idiots are no longer
predicting war by Monday, so the idiots have already been forced to
back down from that certain prediction. Now they're just saying that
killing Soleimani will turn out to be the greatest foreign policy
blunder in the history of the country, or possibly the world.
The basics that I've described in my last two articles have not
changed, in terms of generational attitudes following from the
extremely bloody Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, which killed 1.5 million
people. None of the idiots that you hear on TV take into account
Iran's history, Iraq's history, or that many Iranians hate Iraqis, and
that many Iraqis hate Iranians, after the atrocities they perpetrated
on each other in the 1980s.
As usual, if you want to believe stupid things, then listen to the
idiots in Washington. If you want to know what's actually going on in
the world, then follow the Generational Dynamics analyses that I've
been posting.
