Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the second fake U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, why the MSM doesn’t seem to notice the renaming of combat brigades to ‘transitional troops,’ the evidence of a substantial residual U.S. presence (air bases, Vatican-sized embassy, proposed State Department private army), the Obama administration’s attempt to broker a deal — any deal — to get Iraq’s government together and how Iraq’s escalating violence amid the political stalemate bodes ill for the future.
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