{"id":1870086,"date":"2023-03-07T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20th-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:13:30","slug":"austin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20th-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20th-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin makes unannounced visit to Iraq as 20th anniversary of invasion approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustin-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-as-20th-anniversary-of-invasion-approaches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1870086&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_54618782\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"UN watchdog: Iran may have enough nuclear material for multiple bombs\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"World leaders can't stop Iran from stockpiling enough nuclear material to build weapons of mass destruction, according to the United Nations's lead nuclear watchdog. \"This is going to happen, because they continue to enrich, in a quite sustained way,\" International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi told reporters Monday. \"And so, it's a matter of time, where they get to one or more so-called 'significant quantities' ... which is the quantity ... for which the development of a nuclear weapon cannot be excluded.\"\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M59S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-06-07 16:20:19\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/thumb\/\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1027697.mp4\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_54618782\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1027697\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of Defense <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lloyd-austin\">Lloyd Austin<\/a> Unannounced Visit to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iraq\">Iraq<\/a>He also reaffirmed America&#8217;s commitment to the region over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Austin has become the highest ranking Cabinet official to travel the country in the years since the advent of the Constitution. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\">Biden administration<\/a>. He was able to speak with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani, and will likely meet other top officials during his stay in the country.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/austin-embarks-middle-east\">LLOYD AUSTIN EMBARKS ON TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST TO REASSURE ALLIES<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/07\/politics\/lloyd-austin-iraq-trip\/index.html\">said<\/a> He stated that he is in Iraq for the following reasons. &#8220;reaffirm the U.S.-Iraq strategic partnership as we move toward a more secure, stable, and sovereign Iraq,&#8221; The press pool.<\/p>\n<p>Austin&#8217;s visit is weeks before the 20th anniversary U.S. invasion of Iraq, March 2003. This resulted both in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein as well as the inauguration of Barack Obama. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pentagon-chief-makes-unannounced-trip-iraq-20-year-anniversary-invasion-nears-2023-03-07\/\">deaths<\/a> The Costs of War Project at Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies estimates that there are between 185,000 to 208,000 Iraqi civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Defense secretary is on a three-country trip, which includes stops in Jordan and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>This trip was designed to reinforce U.S. allies to the Middle East. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Click Here to Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/secretary-defense-austin-suprise-visit-iraq-biden-news\">Austin makes unannounced visit to Iraq as 20th anniversary of invasion approaches<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[16836,4143,5629,9230,10889,17259,20813,7241],"class_list":["post-1870086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-20th","tag-anniversary","tag-approaches","tag-austin","tag-invasion","tag-iraq","tag-unannounced","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}