Trump Threatens Iraq with ‘Very Big Sanctions’ Unless It Pays Back BILLIONS for an Airbase If US Troops Are Forced to Withdraw
- The Iraqi government should stick Trump with the Bill of: over 1 million Iraqi civilians dead by this illegal war of aggression based on false pretext, country destroyed, generations of Iraqi children deformed by the illegal use of Depleted Uranium rounds …
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US Forces Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is Illegal
by Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald, Scotland, March 30, 2003
British and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction. DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children.
– - Trump Threatens Iraq with ‘Very Big Sanctions’ Unless It Pays Back BILLIONS for an Airbase If US Troops Are Forced to Withdraw
by https://www.rt.com/
Iraq should brace for sanctions that will make the ones placed on Iran look weak in comparison if it kicks out the US troops without first covering the costs for an airbase, US President Donald Trump said.
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“We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base 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 told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday.
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The punitive measures that the US is ready to slap on its supposed ally in the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) will be even harsher than the crippling sanctions already in effect against Tehran, the president said.
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“If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.”
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Trump’s warning to Iraq comes after Iraqi MPs passed a non-binding resolution, championed by the country’s caretaker prime minister, asking the Iraqi government to expel foreign troops by cancelling a request for military assistance from the US-led coalition.
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