{"id":46212,"date":"2019-05-18T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46212"},"modified":"2019-05-18T14:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:03:32","slug":"iraqi-parliament-poised-to-evict-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46212","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Parliament Poised to Evict US Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2019\/05\/17\/iraqi-parliament-poised-to-evict-us-troops\/\">Iraqi Parliament Poised to Evict US Troops<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Talk of US attacking Iran has many Iraqi officials keen to get rid of them<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/author\/jason\/\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq has spent the better share of the last 16 years under US military occupation. Despite this, time and again&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/62be4d0567144d5eb7ed194ccb87b7aa\">US-Iraqi relations have come to be defined<\/a>&nbsp;by US hostility toward neighboring Iran, and Iraq\u2019s desire to not get mixed up in that.<br><br>So while Iraq\u2019s parliament was already bristling under Pentagon talk of staying in Iraq, and Trump saying that the US was staying in Iraq to \u201ckeep an eye on Iran,\u201d the recent escalation of US rhetoric about a war against Iran has sparked action within parliament.&nbsp;<br><br>On Saturday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/05\/17\/596189\/Iraq-parliament-bill-ban-US-military-presence\">Iraq will be voting on a bill that would aim to expel all foreign troops&nbsp;<\/a>from Iraqi soil, and singles out US troops in particular as needing to leave. The bill is endorsed by Iraq\u2019s top two Shi\u2019ite blocs, and is expected to pass fairly easily.&nbsp;<br><br>What happens then is the real question. Iraq\u2019s parliament is already being spun as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/outline.com\/pnzxKk\">pro-Iran factions<\/a>,\u201d and it\u2019s been a long time since US officials, Pentagon or otherwise, gave any indication that they thought staying in Iraq was up to the Iraqi government.&nbsp;<br><br>So while the Iraqi Prime Minister is warning the US that they can\u2019t use Iraq to launch a war on Iran, the US is browbeating Iraq over its government-aligned Shi\u2019ite militias, and doing everything they can to try to portray that Shi\u2019ite-dominated Iraqi government as effectively in league with the Iranians, and subsequently a threat to US interests. No matter what happens, it seems certain US-Iraqi ties will suffer for it.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Parliament Poised to Evict US Troops Talk of US attacking Iran has many Iraqi officials keen to get rid of them. Iraq has spent the better share of the last 16 years under US military occupation. Despite this, time and again&nbsp;US-Iraqi relations have come to be defined&nbsp;by US hostility toward neighboring Iran, and Iraq\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11541,441,442,13009,957],"class_list":["post-46212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-war-com","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-jason-ditz","tag-us-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46213,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions\/46213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}