State Dep’t: Withdrawal From Iraq ‘Not a Mistake’
‘I would remind you that the timeline was laid out by the prior administration. It wasn’t a political decision’
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State Dept: Withdrawal From Iraq ‘Not a Mistake’ (Washington Free Beacon)
Fielding questions about the deterioration of security in Iraq, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki maintained that “Obviously, the withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 was not a mistake.”
“So there are — there were factors that we could not have predicted five years ago — six years ago,” Psaki said.
“Right, but I mean, some people did predict that complete withdrawal, the withdrawal that happened in 2011, would lead to something like this,” answered Associate Press reporter Matt Lee.
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