Iraqi President: US Has No Right to Use Iraq as 'Staging Post' for Attack on Iran

[Wyatt earp]

"It's easy to start a war but very, very difficult to end a war."
—Iraqi President Barham Salih

Iraqi President Barham Salih said Tuesday that the United States has no right to use his country as a launchpad for a strike against Iran.

Salih, in his interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, also talked about the adverse impacts his own country has felt as a result of U.S. imposed sanctions, stressed the need to prevent another war, and warned that tearing up the nuclear deal entirely "could be disastrous for the entire neighborhood as a whole."

"It's easy to start a war but very, very difficult to end a war."
—Iraqi President Barham SalihTheir conversation, as Amanpour noted, came amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, including new economic sanctions, the deployment of 1,000 more troops to the Middle East, and President Donald Trump's threatTuesday to "obliterate" areas of the country..

Salih said he welcomed Trump's last minute decision last week to call off an initially-approved strike against Iran because, the Iraqi leader noted, "there is no military solution to this problem."

Iraqi President: US Has No Right to Use Iraq as 'Staging Post' for Attack on Iran

"Tensions" with Iran ....

So?


Iraq is our puppet .

 

[blackhawk]

Trump has been very clear.

Really ?

Yes he has despite the claims from his critics he would get us into a war with either Russia, China or North Korea and now Iran we are not at war with any of these countries. In fact the only military conflicts we are currently involved are those we were in before he was President.

So when he says things like "met with fire and fury", "great and overwhelming force" and "obliteration in some areas", he's just bluffing right ?

It’s called rhetoric it’s been part of politics as long as there as been politics not unlike former President Obama’s red line.

 

[the other mike]

It’s called rhetoric it’s been part of politics as long as there as been politics not unlike former President Obama’s red line.

Just rhetoric like "death to Israel" and "death to America" ? You know they don't chant it out loud but they say they same thing in Saudi Arabia, but there it's okay right ?

 

[blackhawk]

It’s called rhetoric it’s been part of politics as long as there as been politics not unlike former President Obama’s red line.

Just rhetoric like "death to Israel" and "death to America" ? You know they don't chant it out loud but they say they same thing in Saudi Arabia, but there it's okay right ?

As I said it’s part of politics and it’s part of it all around the world if the reality of that is to much for you handle or accept that is your problem and might consider getting some help in dealing with the reality of the world.

 

[the other mike]

Israel and 8 other nations have nuclear weapons already, not counting that the US nuclear warheads are all over the place including over 200 of them in European countries ( Germany, Belgiam, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey)

List of states with nuclear weapons - Wikipedia

Shouldn't we worry about those first ?

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Yeah...blah blah...

The nerve to think his nation has sovereignty! Bwahahahah!
If he keeps it up he might just warrant another injection of freedom into his nation.

God...we are fucking evil.

Saddam kept Iran's ass in check.

If by, 'keeping them in check', you mean attacking them and starting a 10 year war which numerous nations covertly and overtly funded including the US...sure.

The M.E. is such a cluster fuck...why do we even bother? What good does it serve us? Oi Vey!

 

[the other mike]

If by, 'keeping them in check', you mean attacking them and starting a 10 year war which numerous nations covertly and overtly funded including the US...sure.

The M.E. is such a cluster fuck...why do we even bother? What good does it serve us? Oi Vey!

Good PR for China and Russia as well.
The US looks like the evil vampire in the room to the rest of the world as more and more truth surfaces . And if they take the Internet, which they will, we'll go back to paper....
and the streets.

 

[the other mike]

 

[Fang]

Sorry Barham, but your side lost the war. We can do whatever we want.

 

[the other mike]

Sorry Barham, but your side lost the war. We can do whatever we want.

That was no war. Saddam was a CIA asset who got greedy and tried to take Kuwait.
We wasted their electrical grid, destroyed their fucking hospitals under Poppy Bush, then 8 years of sanctions under Clinton killed another 500,000 civilians before Dubya's Shock and Awe in 2003.

That is an elephant stepping on a wasp nest repeatedly. Not war.

 

[the other mike]

 

[MisterBeale]

Relevant portion starts at 2:50

Did someone just fart ?

Gulf war syndrome files stores in Murrah Bldg. destroyed, letting the Pentagon off the hook for hundreds of billions in medical liabilities.

I think you misunderstood my post.

The point was, the folks in D.C. have admitted that they have no qualms with using "covert means against the Iranians."

 

[the other mike]

I think you misunderstood my post.

The point was, the folks in D.C. have admitted that they have no qualms with using "covert means against the Iranians."

I thought you were referring to this video which is only 2:27, so I wasn't sure what you meant.

Did they though? Did they really?

 

[RealDave]

Yeah...blah blah...

The nerve to think his nation has sovereignty! Bwahahahah!
If he keeps it up he might just warrant another injection of freedom into his nation.

God...we are fucking evil.

Saddam kept Iran's ass in check.

One of Bush's greatest gifts to Iran was invading Iraq.