Trump threatens sanctions on Baghdad after lawmakers call on US troops to leave
Monday 06/January/2020 - 11:54 AM
US President Donald Trump threatened sanctions against
Baghdad on Sunday after Iraq’s parliament called on US troops to leave the
country, and the president said if troops did leave, Baghdad would have to pay
Washington for the cost of the airbase there.
“We have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase
that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build, long before my time. We’re
not leaving unless they pay us back for it,” Trump told reporters on Air Force
One.
Trump said that if Iraq asked US forces to leave and
it was not done on a friendly basis, “we will charge them sanctions like
they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat
tame.”
