Strong ties to iran you remember right all right well now according to the times Iraqi Military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started that spiral of events saying that they believe its unlikely that the militia of the United States blamed for the attack by hezbollah carried it out because the rockets were launched from a sunni muslim part of Kirkuk Province the tory is this province is notorious for attacks by the Islamic State a Sunni Terrorist Group which would have made the area hostile territory for these shiite militias like the the top hezbollah from in fact some of those same iraqi intelligence officials well they dont have direct evidence believe the attack was more than likely carried out by. Wait for it. Because not only did isis carry out 3 attacks near the base just 10 days prior but a key yeah kiya pickup truck used in the attack was found less than a 1000 feet from an isis execution site. You know it did reminds me of somet
Come to a resting place where theres been able to be harmony throughout these governments and i would agree with you that it is just completely difficult to have this kind of long term intervention at this point i would i would certainly agree limiting the u. S. Footprint but the problem is 2 things one you know that resolution is obviously nonbinding its sort of a sentiment from the legislature weve still got reality on the ground of being able to do things and i think the u. S. Doesnt want to have. You no longer term iranian influence whether a certain extent stand without having something i would also dispute isnt it but isnt that really up to the iraqi people i mean why should someone sitting in washington d. C. Determine what kind of friendships a foreign country a sovereign country like iraq should have it seems very heavy handed and i dont see how it adds to American Foreign policy interests go ahead. Well i think youre i know you are right i mean the fact is theyve already had
Say peace loving after after the attack so its the iranians feel its the other way around but more importantly i think the iranians believe that the americans have made probably the biggest mistake. That theyve made among the many mistakes that theyve made over the past decade and that is that theyve turned the iraqi people against the United States theyve turned the iranian people against the United States and theyve united iran in iraq in a way which we havent seen before you know chris youre in iraq war veteran i mean talk about that because thats essentially whats happened and if you look at whats coming out of the pentagon and other places of power in washington d. C. What where does democracy actually stand now in iraq because it was invaded under the auspices to bring democracy to iraq now they have a parliament in the form of the Parliament Says thats time to go home but washington says on not so fast so what is the value of the democracy that was forced upon the iraqi people i
He is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate well let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and what not you know a ran his decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead. I think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. Launch the missiles all of them passed through the the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them. So that was a major success and i think that was a signal to washington that all the
York times is now reporting my friends that when it came to the justification for the late december airstrikes that killed 25 members of an Iraqi Militia group in the assassination of reign in military leader general case im still the mahdi the United States may have gotten it wrong. Remember when we were originally told by the u. S. Military Industrial Complex u. S. President donald trump u. S. Secretary of state might and most of our lovely u. S. Mainstream news media that the original rocket attack on the k. One military base in iraq that wounded 6 and killed one u. S. Contractor back in december was conducted by an evil Iraqi Militia group with strong ties to iran you remember right all right well now according to the times a rocky military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started that spiral of events saying that they believe its unlikely that the militia of the United States blamed for the attack by hezbollah carried it out because th