Thread by @HalaJaber

US President #Trump believes that the #US actually owns the US bases built inn #Iraqi territories, He is demanding #Iraq repays billions of dollars when actually ut’s the US that owes Iraq billions of dollars & here's a out as to why:

1- #US owes #Iraq for the invasion & destruction of infrastructure & country during it's invasion & occupation.
2-The corruption & theft during #Bremer’s tennure when nearly #17 billion dollars shipped from the Development Fund of Iraq in the US, miraculously disappeared.

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3- The US owes #Iraq, for the lives of hundreds of thousands of women & children killed during & post US invasion.
4- It owes Iraq for razing down the city of #Fallujah to the
ground, during it's offensive against #Zarqawi, & never fulfilling its pledge to rebuild it.

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5- The US owes #Iraq for the amount of depleted uranium, it's military used in Fallujah, now a cause for a high number of horrifying deformed children & incredible rate of cancer.
6/ For the villages it raided and destroyed, for the mammoth destruction levelled on Mosul.

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The US owes Iraq for invasion under the false pretext of WWMD -- which turned out to be the biggest lie of the century.
The list is endless & this is just in general terms to basically suggest that #Trump is wrong. Iraq owes nothing in monetary terms!

.7/ Now to the military basis that #Trump insists Iraq should pay for.
”US military bases in #Iraq were built during the GW #Bush presidency. When the #US pulled out of Iraq at end of 2011, whatever remained was considered Iraqi and already paid for, ” quoting @SajadJiyad

.8/ Below are copies of the agreement, clearly stating these #US military basis actually belong to #Iraq ,once the US withdraws & that all costs incurred, for building, renovations or what have you during the period under US use, will be covered by the US. Courtesy of @SajadJiyad