Lost in the noise surrounding the Democratic National Convention last week, President Donald Trump announced that he will be removing all remaining U.S. troops from Iraq in the near future.
The Military Times reported this would be done without jeopardizing national security.
“We’re helping where we can. But it’s a separate country. They have a prime minister. They have people in office. They have to run their country. We’ve been in Iraq for a long time.”
“Frankly, I didn’t think (the Iraq War) was a good idea … Now we’re getting out, we’ll be leaving shortly.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared,
“The president has made it clear he wants forces down to the lowest level as quickly as they can. That’s the vision he has given us, and we’re working with the Iraqis to achieve that.”
President Trump has called the War on Iraq the “worst single mistake” in the history of the country, placing the blame squarely on former President George W. Bush and his cabal of neocons, many of whom are now Joe Biden supporters, who sold the public on a lie about WMD’s.
“To me, it’s the worst single mistake made in the history of our country. Civil war you can understand. Civil war, civil war. That’s different. For us to have gone into the Middle East, and that was just, that was a bad day for this country, I will tell you. Seven trillion [dollars], and millions of lives — you know, ‘cause I like to count both sides. Millions of lives.”
The president has also made candid comments about the military-industrial complex, the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy that lobbies for endless war so globalist defense contractors can keep cashing out on the blood of U.S. troops.
“I’m the one that talks about these wars that are 19 years and people are just there, and don’t kid yourself, we do have a military-industrial complex. They do like war!” Trump said during a Fox News interview last year.
“You have people here in Washington, they never want to leave!” Trump continued.
“If it was up to them, they’d bring thousands of soldiers in. Someday, people will explain it, but you do have… you do have a group, and they call it ‘the military-industrial complex.’ They never want to leave. They always want to fight. No, I don’t want to fight,” the president added.
Trump needs to follow his instincts and bring the troops home. There is no question that the Democrats are now the War Party. Obama was involved in seven different wars during his Presidency. Trump continues to fulfills his campaign promise to only use our young men and women to defend our national security. No new wars have been started during his Presidency. His GOP is now the party of peace and prosperity.