Tijdens
het debat voor de democratische voorverkiezing van de kandidaat voor
de presidentsverkiezingen in 2020, stelde Joe Biden plompverloren dat
hij verantwoordelijk was voor de terugtrekking van de VS troepen uit
Irak in 2011 en dat hij daarmee een eind had gemaakt aan de illegale oorlog
die de VS in 2003 tegen dat land begon, een oorlog waar hij NB voor stemde………
Deze
terugtrekking van troepen, 150.000 militairen in totaal, was al
gepland door de Bush administratie en niet de Obama administratie,
waarvan Biden deel uitmaakte…..
Lees het
ontluisterende verhaal over Biden, in feite een oorlogsmisdadiger,
immers hij was als vicepresident van de VS mede verantwoordelijk voor
de illegale oorlogen die Obama begon, zoals die tegen Libië en Syrië,
voorts droeg hij mede verantwoordelijkheid voor de gewelddadige
opstand in Oekraïne en de daarop volgende oorlog tegen de burgers van
Oost-Oekraïne…….. Burgers die terecht boos waren dat de door hen
democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj werd afgezet en NB werd
vervangen door een neonazi-junta onder Porosjenko, de door de VS
geparachuteerde leider, die geen bondgenootschap wenste met Rusland,
maar met de EU en de VS……..
Een paar
kanttekeningen: van een daadwerkelijk einde aan de oorlog in Irak is
nog steeds geen sprake en voorts zijn er nog steeds VS militairen in
Irak….. Verder is de VS mede verantwoordelijk voor de vorming van
IS en de steun voor terreurgroepen die tekeergingen tegen sjiieten en aanhangers van andere geloven in
Irak en Syrië, waar deze terroristen (naast IS o.a. Al Qaida) in dat
laatste land m.n. streden en nog strijden tegen het democratisch
gekozen bewind Assad……
Overigens laat het hieronder opgenomen artikel nog eens zien, hoe belangrijk het klokkenluiden door Chelsea Manning was en is, en dat we blij mogen zijn met Wikileaks, zodat we een groot deel van de uiterst smerige machinaties door de VS hebben kunnen achterhalen, zoals de moord in 2006 op een aantal Irakezen, t.w, 5 kinderen en 4 vrouwen die in 2006 geboeid standrechtelijk werden geëxecuteerd door VS militairen en niet zoals de VS verklaarde waren omgekomen bij een (lucht-) bombardement……. De wereld heeft er totaal geen baat bij dergelijke zware oorlogsmisdaden van de VS onder de pet te houden, integendeel!! Yankee go home!!!
Het hieronder weergegeven artikel werd geschreven door Kevin Gosztola, verscheen
eerder op Shadow Proof (SP) en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
Joe
Biden Took Credit for Ending the Iraq War During the Debate
June
28, 2019 at 6:37 pm
Written
by Kevin
Gosztola
(SP) — Former
vice president Joe Biden took credit for withdrawing 150,000 United
States troops from Iraq during the Democratic presidential debate.
But the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq was part of a status of
forces agreement (SOFA) President George W. Bush established with the
Iraqi government.
As
the Washington Post reported in November 2008, “The Bush
administration agreed to a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
by the end of 2011.” The agreement also placed “additional
restrictions on how U.S. troops conducted missions,” and required a
“pullout from Iraqi urban areas by July 2009.”
In
fact, in early 2011, Obama and his advisers planned to
keep a residual force in Iraq, but they didn’t tell Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki or the American people.
According
to James F. Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Iraq,
“Washington had to determine the size of a residual force. That
dragged on, with the military pushing for a larger force, and the
White House for a small presence at or below 10,000, due to costs and
the president’s prior ‘all troops out’ position. In June, the
president decided on the force level (eventually 5,000) and obtained
Mr. Maliki’s assent to new SOFA talks.”
MSNBC
host Rachel Maddow said to Biden, “You made your decades of
experience in foreign policy a pillar of your campaign, but when the
time came to say yes or no on one of the most consequential foreign
policy decisions of the last century, you voted for the Iraq War.”
“You
have since said you regret that vote. But why should voters trust
your judgment when it comes to making a decision about taking the
country to war the next time?” Maddow asked.
“Once
Bush abused that power, what happened was, we got elected after that.
I made sure—the president turned to me and said, Joe, get our
combat troops out of Iraq. I was responsible for getting 150,000
combat troops out of Iraq, and my son was one of them,” Biden
declared.
Biden
was referring to this moment, which Antony Blinken, Biden’s
national security adviser, recounted for
The Atlantic. “We were sitting in the Oval Office one day and
talking about [the troop presence], and Obama looked at Biden and
said, ‘Joe, I think you should do this. We need sustained focus
from the White House. You know Iraq better than anyone.’”
But
what he oversaw was meetings and negotiations within the framework of
the SOFA from the Bush administration.
In
October 2011, it was reported the
Obama administration would stick to a December 31 withdrawal deadline
set in 2008. The administration would not leave thousands of U.S.
troops in Iraq.
The
reason U.S. troops did not stay in Iraq past the withdrawal deadline
had nothing to do with ending the war. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
and other top military officials demanded a
deal that included immunity for personnel from prosecution for war
crimes.
CNN
reported, “The Iraqis refused to agree to that, opening up the
prospect of Americans being tried in Iraqi courts and subjected to
Iraqi punishment.”
“The
negotiations were strained following WikiLeaks’ release of a
diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children,
were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an
airstrike as the U.S. military initially reported,” CNN
additionally reported.
A
diplomatic cable disclosed by
Chelsea Manning and published by WikiLeaks revealed details of a U.S.
military raid that killed several women and children.
The
classified U.S. State Embassy communications log from Philip Alston,
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or
Arbitrary Executions, detailed how American troops approached an
Iraqi man’s home on March 15, 2006. They handcuffed residents and
executed all of them. An air raid was called in to destroy the house.
“Iraqi
TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims
(i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit.
Autopsies carried out at the Tikrit Hospital’s morgue revealed that
all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed,” the cable
indicated.
The
Bush administration avoided responding to any communication related
to the matter, Alston told The Guardian, as the cable impacted
negotiations with Iraq.
Given
that, the credit for forcing the completion of the withdrawal of U.S.
troops should also go to Chelsea Manning, who is in jail for refusing
to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks, and WikiLeaks
and their founder Julian Assange, who faces extradition for
publishing classified information.
Manning
and WikiLeaks sparked a moment that led to the end of the Iraq War.
It is unclear what Biden did to ensure troops did not remain in Iraq
past the 2011 withdrawal deadline.
By Kevin Gosztola /
Republished with permission / Shadow
Proof / Report
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