Despite the Iraqi parliament voting to make American military forces leave the country, the Pentagon is fighting them on this. They have said that there is no plan to remove forces out of the country.
The United States has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq and will assess the postings of American forces worldwide, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said yesterday.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered “a zero-based review” of the disposition of U.S. forces worldwide, Hoffman told reporters on Thursday.
“We’ve been going through this for many months now,” Hoffman said. “He’s sitting down with each of the combatant commands to walk through what is the right force posture; what are our right goals; what are the right countries we need to be engaging; what are the right challenges; and where can our allies and partners participate more?”
The U.S. remains in discussion with Iraq about the status of the roughly 5,000 American forces there, following reports that the country’s caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said the next government will decide whether to enforce a nonbinding vote in parliament to disinvite the U.S. troops.
“We’re still in conversations with our Iraqi host,” Hoffman said. “We continue to want to be a friend and partner to the sovereign and prosperous Iraq. At this time, there are no plans by the U.S. military to withdraw from Iraq.”
So America spent trillions of dollars to invade and occupy Iraq for the purposes of installing a democracy. The Iraqi parliament as part of this democracy demands American military forces leave the country. But instead of honoring the will of the Iraqi people, they are doing everything possible to prevent the will of the Iraqi people becoming a reality.
This just shows that the whole idea that we invaded Iraq to bring the Iraqi people freedom and democracy was a lie. The truth is, we invaded Iraq to benefit the security interests of Israel which benefits when the surrounding Arab world is in chaos and at war with one another.
