Trump meets US troops in Germany after Iraq visit
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have greeted American troops in Germany, the president’s second visit to US troops overseas in the last day after he visited US forces in Iraq.
According to Press TV, on his way back from meeting US troops at Al Asad Air Base in west of Baghdad on Wednesday, Trump stopped at Ramstein Air Base in Germany for refueling and met with service members there.
Trump slowly made his way down a rope line at the US Air Force base in southwestern Germany, shaking hands, chatting and posing for photos.
The president’s earlier visit to Iraq was his first to US forces overseas. Both visits were unannounced.
Iraqi political and militia leaders condemned Trump’s visit to US troops in Iraq as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.
Iraqi lawmakers said a meeting between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi was canceled due to a disagreement over venue. Trump had asked to meet at the Al Asad Military Base, an offer which the Iraqi leader declined.
“The American leadership was defeated in Iraq and wants to return again under any pretext, and this is what we will never allow,” said Falih Khazali, a politician allied with Bina Bloc in Iraq’s Parliament.
Qais al-Khazali, the Leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq fighters, said on Twitter, "Iraqis will respond with a parliamentary decision to oust your (US) military forces. And if they do not leave, we have the experience and the ability to remove them by other means that your forces are familiar with."
“We won’t get anything from America,” said Baghdad resident Mohammad Abdullah. “They’ve been in Iraq 16 years, and they haven’t given anything to the country except destruction and devastation.”
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