Leader of Iraqi party, the Antichrist,insists on US exit

Leader of Iraqi party insists on US exit

Baghdad, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) The head of the largest parliamentary party in Iraq, Shia Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, keeps insisting on the departure of the little more than 5,000 US troops from Iraqi soil.

Quoted by the local television station al-Sharqiya, al-Sadr argued that the Pentagon’s presence is destructive, as it makes Iraq the scene of international conflicts.

The calls for the expulsion of US troops are not accompanied by Kurdish and Sunni politicians, who boycotted a parliamentary session last January that sought to approve a recommendation to the Government for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

For this reason, the cleric requested support from the head of the Democratic Party of the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, for the exit of the United States.

Kurdish leaders defend the presence of a Pentagon-led international military coalition on the grounds that they contain the threat of the terrorist Islamic State.

Al-Sadr, an outspoken open to the presence of US troops, heads the largest parliamentary bloc in Iraq, the Saairun alliance, and is also the founder of the Mahdi Army that fought from 2003 to 2008 the US occupation in Iraq.

In the cleric’s opinion, the Iraqi Army and police are guards for all; a Shiite must protect everyone and a Kurd too; this is how a state works: not a Kurd who protects only the Kurds; a Shiite, the Shiites and a Sunni, the Sunnis.