Gee, You Think?

Kata'ib Hezbollah (no relation to the Lebanese Hezbollah) has announced that it will be suspending attacks on American troops in order to facilitate negotations between the US and Iraqi governments for the withdrawal of remaining US troops.

Imagine that.  You can get Iraqi insurgents to stop attacking American troops by giving them the reasonable hope that American Troops will be Fucking Leaving?

Now there is a fucking shocker.

We have spent about 20 years in Iraq, and our justification staying in Iraq is because insurgents keep attacking us?

The fucking self-licking ice cream cone needs to end:

A militia group that the Biden administration blamed for the deadly attack on U.S. forces stationed at a shadowy base in Jordan said Tuesday that it would stop targeting American troops in Iraq, a move that could clear the way for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers more than two decades after the 2003 invasion.

"We announce the suspension of military and security operations against the occupation forces—in order to prevent embarrassment to the Iraqi government," Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi, the leader of Kata'ib Hezbollah, said in a statement. "Our brothers in the Axis, especially in the Islamic Republic of Iran, they do not know how we conduct our Jihad, and they often object to the pressure and escalation against the American occupation forces in Iraq and Syria."

Pentagon officials have specifically named Kata'ib Hezbollah as one of the groups behind the drone attack on U.S. troops in Jordan over the weekend. U.S. President Joe Biden and administration officials have said they ultimately hold Iran responsible for the attack, accusing that country's government of funding and arming Kata'ib Hezbollah and other militia groups in the region.

Kata'ib Hezbollah's leader said in his statement that the group has launched attacks on U.S. forces at its "own will, and without any interference from others." Biden administration officials have admitted they have no evidence that Iran directed the Jordan attack.

We just need to get out.