Iraq Basics

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The most-Googled questions on Iraq

Some basic facts important to understanding the situation in Iraq.

 

Couple of additions:

- The largest US embassy in the world is in Baghdad at 104 acres (5X larger than the 2nd biggest)

- The leader of HTS (al Nusra / al Qaeda in Syria), Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was also in Camp Bucca

 

Regional geopolitics (my 2c):

- The power struggle in the region is tribal, between: Persians, Turks, Gulf Arabs & Zionist Jews - Syria & Iraq are naturally vassal states, caught in the middle of this tribal struggle

- The Zionists & Persians won the Iraq war

- The Turks & Persians won the Syria war

 

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