Wednesday, January 08, 2020

"We're not leaving until you pay us back the billions we spent!"

In News Thud, Paul Goldberg reports,
Just days after Iraqi parliament passed a bill to expel US forces, Iraqi prime minister indicated he may already be backing down, now specifying training and logistical support for the Iraqi military could stay.

President Trump warned that the United States would not leave Iraq until the country paid the United States for the military base built there.

“We have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it.” Trump said.
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