https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-troops-leaving-syria-will-go-to-western-iraqDefense chief says US troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq
U.S. troops leaving Syria will be relocated to western Iraq, where they will continue to conduct operations to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday.
Esper told reporters traveling with him to the Middle East that details regarding the U.S. military's efforts in western Iraq would be worked out in the upcoming weeks, The Associated Press reported.
The comments came after weeks of bipartisan scrutiny of President Trump's abrupt decision to pull roughly 1,000 troops from northern Syria ahead of a planned Turkish offensive in the area. Trump has repeatedly argued that it is time to get out of "endless wars" and promised to bring U.S. troops home.
But Esper said Sunday that many of the U.S. troops leaving Syria will be relocated to Iraq.
"One is to help defend Iraq and two is to perform a counter-ISIS mission as we sort through the next steps," he said, adding that the troop withdrawal would take "weeks not days."
"Things could change between now and whenever we complete the withdrawal, but that’s the game plan right now," Esper said.
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Ambassador William Taylor burned Trump to the ground.
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/22/20927322/taylor-impeachment-testimony-ukraine-quid-trump
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We are entering the phase, where stuff Trump says is getting just so way out of contact with reality, and so contrary to what his party can stand by, that we will see so much more of people like McConnell openly saying, he does not remember talking about the phone call with the damning qui pro quo, he is beginning to step away from the toxic guy.
Cristmas time isn't going to be so cuddly for the GOP