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The Eddie Gallagher and Iraq Story

Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher of SEAL Team 7, a special operator the past 15 years who has deployed eight times, is living through a betrayal right now, imprisoned while awaiting trial for allegedly knifing an injured ISIS fighter during his last deployment to Mosul in 2017. Mosul is a major city in northern Iraq. Located some 400 km (250 mi) north of Baghdad, Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the east bank.

The SEAL has maintained that he was the scapegoat for more junior SEALs who did not like his leadership style.

Rear Adm. Collin Green made his intentions clear at a staff meeting Monday, saying he wanted to remove Gallagher's Trident pin, which designates him as a SEAL.

His other lawyer, Tim Parlatore, said: 'What I'm hearing is that the rear admiral said very disparaging comments about the president and stated his disagreement with the president's actions and said therefore I want to move forward in removing his Trident.'

Earlier, he told ABC it was the 'worst thing' they could do to Gallagher.

Parlatore filed an inspector general´s complaint Tuesday accusing Green of insubordination for defying Trump. He said Green should be fired and court-martialed.

Attorneys representing Gallagher say the plan to make him an ex-SEAL was 'retaliation' for his continued criticism of the U.S. Navy.

Gallagher's acquittals ended claims that he had fatally stabbed the ISIS militant in the photos, and that he had tried to murder civilians by shooting at them.

Attorney Marc Mukasey told DailyMail.com that his client's rights 'were violated over and over again. We exposed the misconduct and beat the fabricated charges at trial.'

'What the bureaucracy is doing to him now is pure and simple retaliation,' he said.

A court martial cleared him of murder charges when a medic confessed to the Afghanistan war crime after military prosecutors granted him immunity. He faced court martial charges over accusations of stabbing to death a captured and injured teenage ISIS fighter, then photographing himself with the teen's dead body.

Trump on Friday restored Gallagher´s rank to Chief Petty Officer after the Navy reduced it to Petty Officer First Class.

Why was USA in Iraq?

One of the biggest reasons of why the United States went to war with Iraq was because of the belief that Iraq was harboring terrorists in their country and were helping terrorists to hide from the United States.

The US invaded Iraq in 2003 because Iraq also posed a threat to the peace of the West. The decision was controversial at the time, but the reason was clear. Saddam Hussein, the brutal dictator of Iraq for 35 years, was the central threat to Middle East.

His war-mongering and invasions of neighboring Arab countries caused massive instability in the Middle East. At a time when these infant nations should have being forging political and economic alliances his megalomaniac, imperialistic ambitions caused widespread division and distrust in the region.

Did Iraq harbor terrorists and help them hide? Yes When did the idea of a regime change occur?

The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982.

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Life goes on.

What happened after Hussein?

The United States and others were wrong in concluding that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in 2002. Saddam wanted to give the impression that he had WMD, and he succeeded.

The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq began in December 2007 with the end of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and was completed by December 2011, bringing an end to the Iraq War.

Department of state, 2019, has listed Iraq as one of seven states that sponsor terrorism, but experts say Iran, Syria, and, at least in the past, Pakistan, all surpassed Iraq in support for terrorists. 

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