UK will leave Iraq if Baghdad asks us to go: defense minister

[turbinetree]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JANUARY 7, 2020 / 11:31 AM / UPDATED 13 MINUTES AGO

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants to keep its troops in Iraq but will pull out if Baghdad so demands, defense minister Ben Wallace said on Tuesday.

Iraq’s parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave after the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport.

“We are ... trying to get them to say that it’s in your best interest for us to remain,” Wallace told parliament. “(But) we will respect Iraqi sovereignty. If they require us to leave, that is their right and we will respect it.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-britain-military/uk-will-leave-iraq-if-baghdad-asks-us-to-go-defense-minister-idUSKBN1Z61ZE?il=0

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And then there was the letter from the Marine General stating that the US will honor the Iraq vote to remove all US troops from Iraq.................................

[yaesu]

1. so, we will and the world will soon find out who really runs iraq, the sovereign government or the

US fascist state.

[pandr32]

2. +1

[progree]

3. I'd bet they will be delighted to leave, and I don't blame them nt

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. With regard to that letter:

"That letter is a draft. It was a mistake, it was unsigned, it should not have been released ... (it was) poorly worded, implies withdrawal, that is not what's happening," Milley said.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/politics/us-troops-iraq/index.html