Invading Iraq was America’s fatal mistake

Bush admin estimated the war to cost $50bn, Iraqis turned it into a $5 trillion financial black hole

Iraq War was more expensive than WWII?

A thread 🧵 Real cost of war is complex matter to calculate given the inter-correlated factors involved:

First, there is the money already spent to conduct the war in Iraq.

Soleimani Koobideh Fifth Anniversary

His legacy is entering cities after being flattened by American and Russian airstrikes

Once he sent a message to the American Ambassador in Iraq:

“I swear on the grave of Khomeini I haven’t authorised a bullet against the U.S.” The New Yorker, which once exposed the horrors of Abu Ghraib, published a remarkable article in 2013 about Qassem Soleimani.

This piece, worth revisiting today, unveils the covert collaboration between Soleimani and the Americans before the invasion of Afghanistan and during the occupation of Iraq.

Here are some of the key revelations:

So many Green Flags referring to captured towns, total 2012 vibes.

Aleppo is critical, and losing it would be a major blow to the Assad regime. The regime will lose it forever this time.

What's happening is huge. The acceleration is unreal.

But how?

https://twitter.com/MaxedOutArab/status/1861725501200478631

Strategy:

The Syrian Rebels are pushing to control two key highways in the north and south, aiming to isolate Assad's forces and limit their movement.

The eastern road out of Aleppo is being left open intentionally, possibly as an escape route for Assad's forces.

Iran is stealing billions in Iraq

This is how Iran with tacit U.S. approval managed to rob Iraq a generational wealth!

A Thread 🧵 Iraq is the lungs in which Iran breathes, it’s the golden cow. Most of the foreign currency Iran has comes from its neighbour Iraq, through corruption and mass money laundering. It's safe to say that without Iraq Iran would be in a much harder financial situation.

Hence Iraq is Iran’s single most important foreign policy brief. Iraq is sitting on a sea of oil and gas, and other resources. Iraq contains the largest Arab Shia population in the world and Iran made it a mission to control them.

World bank statistics suggests Iraqi has a GDP of $285.5bn. With Iran factions in power Iran ensured a significant portion of this wealth is transferred into Iran since 2003.

Iran made the milking of Iraqi resources its most important political objective.

US officials met with Iranians months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq and followed Iranian instructions of destroying Iraq and its identity

The Iranian involvement in the invasion of Iraq. How Iran served the US prior the invasion of Iraq:

A Thread 🧵 Zalmay Khalilzad @realZalmayMK is a name Iraqis loathe and disgust, the former ambassador and special convoy to Iraq and Afghanistan was involved in the destruction of both countries.

In Iraq he was assigned with roles to unify the fractured opposition prior the 2003 invasion.
After the invasion he was assigned with identifying Iraq’s new “leaders”.

Iran’s Former President Bani-Sadr explains how Khomeini was a power-hungry maniac who survived on blood & hypocrisy and how inciting wars was his plan all along.

A Thread 🧵 Khomeini was prompted by the West; in Paris he was interviewed hundreds of times by westerner journalist. Made a name out of nothing and stole the revolution Iranian people made. He came up with the Great Satan story while having direct communication line with both Carter and Reagan.

Then he started a war against the intellectuals claiming that "we don't need them".

Hezbollah trained Iraqi militias to kidnap, torture, kill Palestinian Refugees in Iraq

Documented in video

A thread🧵 According to HRW, Shia militias (current Axis of Resistance; PMF) did not spare much time before attacking the Palestinian communities in Baghdad after the toppling of Saddam’s regime 2003.

Thousands have been murdered.

Hezbollah doesn’t believe in an independent Lebanon and wants Beirut to be a part of Iran.

Hezbollah is not a Lebanese party by any standards and definitions, it's an Iranian entity.

🧵A Mini Thread Hezbollah is a hybrid actor, as it’s a party that has enjoying state legitimacy in Lebanon and operating both within and outside the state without being accountable to the state.
Its loyalty doesn’t belong to the state of Lebanon. It belongs to a foreign country thousands of kilometers away that was responsible for its creation, Iran.

Gulf States: Treacherous Since Inception

Details of how Gulf monarchs coordinated with Israel to outset First Intifada – Ensuring efficiency of Zionist programs to expel, steal and starve Palestinians in the 1990s

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Shortly after the Gulf war, Palestinians residing in these countries found themselves under a siege similar to the one in Gaza and West Bank. A Kuwaiti official suggested they need to be eradicated as “every one of them is a ticking time bomb”

One might ask, why the coup in Kuwait went unnoticed by Western media? Answer: Kuwait is a complete British mandate. Similar to Al Saud, Al Subah Family, the saw first to the British policy in the region even if it meant betraying fellow Arab Palestinians, which they did.



The origin of House of Sabah is not even from Kuwait, which historically belonged to Basra province of Iraq. The British ensured Al Sabah a state after discovering oil there. Fun to point out that Mubarak the Great killed his own two brothers, a tradition in all Gulf rulers.

Iran, Al Qaeda & Abu Musab Al Zarqawi – How Mullahs helped Zarqawi murdering Iraqis, start civilian war and made way for rise of ISIS: a thread 🧵 Few months after 9/11, Iran managed to settle a large number of Bin Laden family member, key commanders, and an unknown number of rank and file fighters. Two of Bin Laden’s wives, Khairiah and Seham, and seven of his children including his nominal heir Saad and their families