Trump Administration Begins Drafting Possible Sanctions Against Iraq

The madness has no end.

Senior administration officials have begun drafting sanctions against Iraq after President Trump publicly threatened the country with economic penalties if it proceeded to expel U.S. troops, according to three people briefed on the planning, reports The Washington Post.

Got that?

The Trump administration is drawing up plans to sanction Iraq because they don't want the United States military in their country.

Notes The Post:

Such a step would represent a highly unusual move against a foreign ally that the United States has spent almost two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars supporting...

Thousands of American troops have died fighting the war in Iraq, and the United States has spent about $1 trillion on that conflict.

“I’m astounded by what’s even being discussed,” said Peter Kucik, who served in the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which implements sanctions policy, under the Bush and Obama administrations. "You don’t typically use force against your allies. We are threatening to use extreme coercive policy tools against countries with whom we are allied.”

 The Treasury Department and White House will probably take a lead role if the sanctions are implemented, the officials said.

Most United States presidents have been bullies but Trump is certainly the most transparent in his moves to bully the world. But judging from the Twittersphere, there still remains a large number of Americans who support the president in his actions.

 -RW