Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies Saul Landau says
keeping U.S. troops in Iraq would lead to "a constant spark of irritation for
the people who just don't want invaders."
Landau told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Wednesday that the U.S. presence
in Iraq "is a permanent irritant as it would be in any country when you have a
foreign occupying army. So the best thing the United States can do is just get
out and get out quickly."
Landau said, "When you send in a massive technologically superior
army and wipe out the institutions that held this country together, you are
going to create a disintegration."
The Senior Fellow at Institute for Policy Studies stressed that
continued disintegration would take away the country's integrity.
Landau also told the U.S. Desk that Washington should admit that it
made a mistake in attacking Iraq.
According to Landau, "The U.S. occupation or invasion of Iraq began
with two lies. One that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction
which the U.S. president knew he did not have" and the second one was "that he
had ties to al-Qaeda which were also dubious."
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