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Off Topic / Re: [ALERT!] Terrorist Blows up Manchester Arena - Multiple Injured!
« on: May 24, 2017, 12:22:01 AM »it was actually bush that pre-arranged to have troops out of iraq by 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement
regardless of who did it pulling out was a dumb thing to do because we didn't properly give the new government enough training to deal with threats like CIA
and the US's involvement there wasn't very popular with iraqi citizens, which is fairly important if you're looking to overhaul a nation and have its citizens accept your changes. if citizens are unhappy with the people who set up the system, their sense of efficacy is probably going to be very low, which can naturally lend itself to unconventional protest like we know has happened since
I can imagine that Germany would not have been as keen to have us occupy them if it weren't for the East-West split
typically people would be mad at a certain country for occupying them after getting rid of their leader but I could see that changing for the better or for the worse depending on how conditions changed
and as the most powerful and bountiful nation in the world bar none I don't see the situation worsening for them unless we really didn't give a stuff, which was evident in us pulling out before the situation could change for the better