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Fighting ISIS from Iraq...What about our allies...? (Original Post)
pbmus
Oct 2019
OP
Malignant Narcissistic Sociopaths dispose of people when they're done with them. nt
UniteFightBack
Oct 2019
#8
SterlingPound
(428 posts)1. What Allies?
All we have are customers!
brush
(53,876 posts)2. Exactly. trump has either deserted or run off our allies. Maybe he considers...
Russia an ally now.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)3. They're not even good customers in most cases.
The American taxpayer usually ends up footing the bill for whatever "aid" we send.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)5. Trump is renting our troops out as mercenaries to Saudi Arabia,
Trump is renting our troops out as mercenaries to Saudi Arabia,
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)6. If only we could just send Trump there alone and bring our troops home.
A medieval reprobate like Dumpster would probably love it in The Kingdom. He could grab as much P as he wanted and the woman would be blamed.
Richard Engel is doing a special on ISIS now.
That fucking man unleashed at least 65,000 ISIS followers.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)7. So we didn't pull out of the middle east at all.
There's no "he said he'd bring the troops home" angle here if he just slides them over into the next intractable conflict.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)8. Malignant Narcissistic Sociopaths dispose of people when they're done with them. nt
Sewa
(1,262 posts)9. This is nothing but disinformation
Mark Esper is full of shit, trying to save face. I bet these troops will quietly be pulled out of Iraq in a couple months