Did you miss the article posted here where one of the glowies/spooks/whoevers there admitted he was intentionally fucking around with paperwork to make it look like those guys had gotten moved out? And before you go "Trump should have known!" yes, technically he should have. Buck stops there after all. But when you have the guy who's supposed to double-check your shit helping you sign off on it because Deep State bullshit, actually following up becomes quite difficult. Half of those guys (on the low end) got to where they were by making inconvenient facts disappear in dark holes all with a few forms being filed.Why is anyone surprised by this, Trump was withdrawing troops from Iraq as a campaign stunt If he was going to actually pull of the region, he would've done it long ago instead of doing retarded agitation with Iran, occupying oil in Syria, or just moving the troops to neighboring countries like he did with KSA and Kenya. All of the shit about military convoys going into Syria happened under Trump too. Blame it on Trump and the GOP for doing nothing but saber rattle about China and Russia for four years.
We're never going to leave these places.