Remember Iraq?
This just in…
US military starts drawing down mission in Iraq, officials say
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has begun drawing down its mission in Iraq under an agreement inked with the Iraqi government last year, officials said Wednesday.
Washington and Baghdad agreed last year to wind down the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by September 2025, with U.S. forces departing some bases where they have stationed troops during a two-decade-long military presence in the country.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement Wednesday that the U.S. “will reduce its military mission in Iraq,” reflecting “our combined success in fighting ISIS.”
The move “marks an effort to transition to a lasting U.S.-Iraq security partnership in accordance with U.S. national interests, the Iraqi Constitution, and the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Framework Agreement,” he said.
The statement added that Washington will maintain close coordination with Baghdad and coalition partners to ensure a “responsible transition.”
Minor details such as the number of troops withdrawn thus far, or when the transition would be completed are left unsaid.
Category: Iraq
We still have people in Iraq?
Why?
They are embassy guards. You might question why it needs so many? It is the largest embassy in the entire world.
Ahhh…..TY.
I was thinking of Ground Pounders, Tread Heads, Gun Bunnies, Sig, and REMFs.
Embassy makes (some) sense.
They’re not just embassy guards.
There’s a pretty significant number of conventional joes, but who they are and why they’re there is not the internet’s business.
There are lots of people that work at embassies with fight club credentials.
I’m not talking about guys at the embassy.
I think we left Taji a few years ago. The unit that relieved us left in 2020 and the ANZACs that were in charge of the base left then also
My last deployment to Iraq was 2021-2022, and we had one single infantry battalion spread out guarding logistic airfields across the country. There were support units as well. Mostly intel and signal.
No idea what they got now.
Will there be footage of the last man out boarding a helo
on the roof of the Embasy?
Depends upon how much smoke is rising from the embassy. That tends to block out the best shots.
Or people falling from taxiing aircraft as it prepares for takeoff?
I’m hoping to see “Bagdad Bob” on the air saying; “don’t believe them! The Americans were never here! Saddam is still in charge and we are winning!”
From Wikipedia:
“Al-Sahhaf said that he had surrendered to United States forces, had been interrogated by them and then released”
He should have made a deal with SNL.
So long as he stuck to his story he was gonna be ok.
Dammit!
I thought we were supposed to be the empire building conquistadores, the imperialists set out upon world domination.
You know, the nation that conquered Germany twice, Japan — in fact most of Europe twice — much of southeast Asia, only to bring our troops home and wish only for peace and prosperity to those we defeated at the end of the conflict.
Empire Builders and Imperialists should be made of sterner stuff.
Not only that but turns out we don’t even need the oil.
But but but I thought we were there for the oil…