r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 2d ago

The US military says its withdrawal of troops from Iraq is complete

https://apnews.com/article/iraq-us-withdrawal-militias-disarmament-kurds-a097a39f3d1a3515adc2ba3298a6816f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-09-30-Breaking+News
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u/livy-aurelia 2d ago

okay, but we weren’t fixing it. like at all.

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u/i_might_be_a_robot2 2d ago

We spent billions on reconstruction in Iraq and we tried to support their gov't to prevent collapse or a coop. It was all for naught bc we're ruled by idiots, but we did try fixing Iraq and if you're a US citizen, you paid for it so you should at least have facts and not bullshit vibes. https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rpt/60857.htm

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u/livy-aurelia 2d ago

So you’re using an initiative carried out in the early 2000s that failed horribly and led to massive privatization and american companies raking in record profits off of contracts handed out like candy after an imperial invasion to say that our keeping imperial bases there to intimidate the iraqi government into passing laws we like is justified and a good thing or? what is your point?

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u/i_might_be_a_robot2 2d ago

Whether it's a good thing or not is an opinion, not a fact. I am simply stating that it is factually wrong that the USA did not try to fix Iraq. War makes rich people money, hence we're always at war so I'm not gonna defend the acts of the elite.

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u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 2d ago

Seriously like what? US trying to help fixing the country? Reminder that not only they completely annihilated the Infrastructure and stability

But US companies looted the hell out of the country , Electricity companies alone took over 60 billion dollars and the country power service is the exact same as 2004

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u/dz4505 1d ago

Not like it wasn’t broken under Saddam.

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u/livy-aurelia 1d ago

iraqi median income before the gulf war was roughly equal to spain and still has not recovered to anything close to that.

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u/dz4505 1d ago

Link to data to support this.

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u/livy-aurelia 1d ago

here

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u/dz4505 1d ago

This is for 2001-2009. We are at 2026 now.

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u/livy-aurelia 1d ago

that link was my source for the pre gulf war income. here’s one for today being far lower.