{"id":36442,"date":"2013-06-28T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36442"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:32:07","slug":"surprise-iraq-would-welcome-us-military-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36442","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Iraq would welcome US military assistance."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a few years ago when we completely withdrew from Iraq because this administration couldn’t work out a status of forces agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government? Well, now, according to the Associated Press<\/a>, the Iraqis say, yeah, they’ll take our assistance now;<\/p>\n

Ali al-Moussawi, the media adviser for Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, told The Associated Press that Baghdad would welcome increased arms sales and faster weapons deliveries along with U.S. training teams to help it confront rising regional instability and terrorist threats.<\/p>\n

“We welcome this kind of cooperation and we consider it a part of the existing agreement between us,” al-Moussawi said when asked about [Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin] Dempsey’s comments.<\/p>\n

“Because of the high risks the region faces, I think there should be bigger cooperation and coordination between all countries threatened by terrorism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, because that terrorism thing just started recently, right? Now, Marty Dempsey said that aid would not mean sending in troops – but that it might include training teams. I guess you guys on training teams aren’t really troops. It also means to me that there wouldn’t be any organic security, meaning that Iraqis would provide security for those training teams. Kinda scary. A country that didn’t want you there just two years ago is going to provide you with security? <\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that before the troops left Iraq, I made the prediction that we’d be back, but I don’t think even I believed it’d only be two years. Good thing Obama ended the Iraq War<\/a> for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember a few years ago when we completely withdrew from Iraq because this administration couldn’t work … Surprise! Iraq would welcome US military assistance.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}