Daily Mail: 'Betrayed' Kurds pelt US troops with POTATOES as they pull out of northern Syria and Turkey's President Erdogan warns he'll start wiping out 'terrorists' tomorrow after Trump's ceasefire ends
* Cameraman filmed more than 100 vehicles crossing the northeast tip of Syria
* Turkish President Erdogan has agreed to pause his offensive for five days
* Turkey said the truce will expire on Tuesday if Kurds don't move from 'safe zone'
* Around 1,000 troops are crossing into Iraq to continue campaign against ISIS
* Erdogan said that the West was 'standing by terrorists' for supporting Kurds
This is the moment Kurds hurled potatoes and abuse at a withdrawing convoy of US troops as they passed through a Syrian city on their way to Iraq.
Footage shows armored vehicles passing through the city of Qamishli and residents shouting 'No America' and 'America liar,' in English. The clip then shows the residents throwing potatoes at the convoy.
'Like rats, America is running away,' one man shouted in Arabic, according to a translation of the clip.
Another man shouted obscenities and talked of babies in Kurdish-held areas who have died in the Turkish offensive.
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More News On The Kurds Pelting U.S. Troops With Potatoes As The Pull Out Of Northern Syria
Residents of northeast Syria city pelt departing US troops -- AP
Syria: Civilians pelt US army vehicles with potatoes in Qamishli -- BBC
Syrian residents pelt retreating US troops with food and insults -- The Guardian
Video appears to show US troops being pelted with stones and rotten fruit as they pull out of Syria -- Business Insider
‘America is running away’: Irate Kurds pelt withdrawing US forces with vegetables (VIDEO) -- RT
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President Donald Trump on Monday offered a confusing description of his foreign policy priorities as commander in chief — insisting that he was working to bring home American soldiers while warning the U.S. may soon enter into new military conflicts.
“I'm trying to get out of wars. We may have to get in wars, too. OK? We may have to get in wars,” Trump told reporters at the White Hous
In a gut-wrenching series of videos, Kurds holding signs confronted a convoy of massive U.S. tanks and trucks rolling out of northern Syria and into Iraq.
“Thanks for U.S. people, but Trump betrayed us,” read one sign.
Trump made a simple and excellent point today. "The original plan was for the US to stay in Syria for three weeks - it ended up being 7 years. We never promised them we would be there forever."
It was time to rip the band-aid off of Syria and move the SOCOM units out. Very sorry if the Kurds are now flinging salad at passing MRAPS.
It was not a desired ending. Nonetheless, more effective than the red watercolor paint line in Syria's wind blown boiling hot sands. ISIS is greatly diminished and Iran has and continues to get black eyes from their Syrian adventure with Russia allegedly now telling them with overt acts they are not welcome.
As Trump says in his usual pragmatic and plain as day talk manner...three weeks turned into years. Enough. I can support that.
They still should have got a state, we should have helped that become a reality before we left them to fend for themselves. They deserve it far more than those Fakeistinians who receive more aid than any other group in the world and the only group that are allowed to pass refugee status onto their children, and their children and so on..
Exactly why we should have let the Turks have at this long ago.
What the world is learning, yet again, is that some nations are simply great at creating turmoil and then backing away. What is disturbing is that some see that as a reason to be proud.
In less then a year there will likely be a need to get back in there maybe because Russian gains a bit too much from the mayhem, and never mind that in the mean time, so called allies of America get needlessly killed.
Those who defend America's decision to abandon there "allies" the Kurds will piss and moan if/when the Kurds decline the next US offer of so called friendship.
At least be honest and admit that the US never considered the Kurds to be allies in the true sense of the word but merely convenient partners in their (the US) time of need to be tossed aside on a whim of a most whimsical president.
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