And former Defense Secretary holds Obama responsible for the deteriorating situation in Iraq
And former Defense Secretary holds Obama responsible for the deteriorating situation in Iraq
Posted 03/10/2014 09:38 AM
Attacked and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama, saying that if he listened to his advice about the need to keep American troops in Iraq for Things were deteriorating so quickly, accusing the White House of “letting drop the” former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, of the task of reaching agreement that would allow American troops to stay, and warned of turning Iraq into something like Afghanistan during the Taliban rule her.
Panetta said, in his memoirs, published next week: “To this day, I still believe that keeping American forces are limited in number in Iraq was a help in guiding the instructions of the Iraqi army on how to deal with insurgents linked to al-Qaeda, as well as sectarian violence that has gripped the country.”
He said Panetta said: “Who would have supported our point of view it was considered that the White House was eager to get rid of the burden of the Iraqi file to some extent ready to pull the full forces instead of entering into an agreement that allows us to keep Bnfozna and our interests,” stressing that many of the senior officers in the American army and the region were in favor of point of view.
The minister added former American, in his book, which will be available in the market starting from next Tuesday under the title “fights worth fighting”: “The officials want to reach an agreement that would allow to keep the troops in the event that the officials at the Departments of State and Defense who did it, but the absence of the president’s initiative enables Maliki to escape, and failed efforts to reach an agreement. ”
He said Panetta that the speed of the deterioration of security in the Iraqi squandered all the gains that Washington had achieved over the years and the presence of its troops in Iraq, saying: “news from Iraq bothering me to the fullest extent, from my point of view, the attack waged by organizing Daash increases significantly the risk of turning Iraq to the safe haven of the base, much like the development of Afghanistan before the attacks of September 11 / September. ”
He added: “After all that we’ve done in order to hit the top leaders of al-Qaeda and destroy the basic nucleus, our efforts have all been in vain under any circumstances allowed the organization to re-build a base of operations in the Middle East.”
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