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عبد الناصر الجنابي والمجلس الوطني للمعارضة العراقية مع عضو الكونغرس جو ويلسون لرسم مستقبل العراق - AI Summary, Mind Map & Transcript | Maria Maaloof TV ماريا معلوف | YouTubeToText
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Europe people.
>> Uh can you speak about the Cong the uh
the national council
>> the national
working on 20 years ago
>> and we registered in in 2014 >> right
>> right
>> and now we have all the leaders
really exciting too is that uh his
family it's personal. Okay. Yeah. his uh
family is Lebanese and so and so see um
and hey they're
>> Lebanese. Yeah,
>> I was going to say that you I was going
to point out they're [laughter] Lebanese.
Lebanese.
>> I look like Lebanese or Italian.
Hey, but a fun fact, okay, is the
Lebanese in in my home community is a
Lebanese Syrian community. Okay, they
had a community club. They they were but
they assimilated so much that the club
doesn't exist anymore but it was over a
period of time
>> and that's American assimilation and so
and I've seen it with the Indian
Americans and so over and over again
and so the uh but thank you so much it's
beautiful it's really nice it's you
really it's our really I'm just I'm so
Yeah. But I just uh he's here to deliver
a message.
>> This message is from Dr. Abdas.
>> From Dr. Abdas Janari. Well, he's the
chairman for uh National Council for Iraq.
Iraq.
>> Well, hey, it's well obviously
with my uh two sons having served there.
I uh I I we want success. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> And uh and I uh free and democratic Iraq
and uh and then and then I'm very grateful
grateful
that I've worked very closely uh with uh
the Kurdistan regional government and
they're really grateful and you can
correct me but there has been progress
in in regard to um uh contracts with
American oil companies that's mutually
beneficial to Baghdad and
>> correct yeah we need this and we need
just to start from
>> well we don't need anything just support
us in social
>> in the media just we don't we we afraid
because the Arab government murder they
are murdered they kill all our people if
they make revolution there
>> well hey the bottom line I'm very happy
uh to do uh all that I can okay and and
we already issued statements recently that
that
>> the purpose is this organization they
have 150 suborganization under the big names
names
>> and they would they would like to
organize a big conference here in the US
and they want to invite you and we can
send you an email with uh like
>> it to me
>> yeah for you
guys this is so dear
>> maybe because let's see what happened
and this is just
>> I want you to see this now because you
this time and uh
>> attacking the envoy. And I just sent
this to the S. I like paper. Okay. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> Not everybody likes paper. I like paper. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> And so uh and so I um I want to get a
paper copy of this so that I can write
notes on it that I can actually hand it
to other people. Uh but it's uh this is
just startling. And then to see um the
uh Aram al kabi had a
>> a kabi
>> what was he
>> that he kabi is there in Iraq and uh
>> he's so not
>> and this uh threats made uh against
>> and also I think for you know
>> oh my gosh
>> this is oh how beautiful
>> this is from Turkey
>> oh this silk is silk it's from Turkey
this is silk yeah can I see it Beautiful.
Beautiful.
from Canada. You always go, "Hey, >> exactly."
>> I met this guy. Where is he? Over here. [laughter]
[laughter]
>> I came all the way from UK.
>> You did?
>> Yeah. To see you.
>> Oh, good. I came all the way
>> just for two days.
>> I came all the way from Houston. >> Houston.
>> Houston.
>> Yeah. And the wind chill was 70. [laughter]
[laughter]
fix your flag. Oh, always. That's my job.
>> Hello, Williams. We were there for
Christmas a few years back. It was like
out of a movie. All a sudden the snow
started coming down. They were singing
carols. I said, "Hey, this is like a movie.
movie.
>> Where's Jimmy Stewart?
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished
guests and dear friends. My name is
Maria Maruof. I'm on the behalf of the
Capital Institute. I'm honored to
welcome you to the special national
security and policy monthly reception
under the team the future of US Middle
East strategy under President Trump.
Tonight we gather to explore the most
urgent questions shaping the Middle East
uh today. questions that directly affect
American national security, our
alliances and the future of regional
stability. Our discussion will focus on
strengthening US Saudi relations, the
strategy of Iran containment, stability
uh for Lebanon and Iraq and the UAE
expanding role in the region and the
future of the Abrahamic Accords. Uh this
is a private and very special meeting.
We are grateful to have with us
exceptional group of American European.
She will arrive soon and Middle Eastern
leaders. So I'm going to introduce first
uh our fellow Congressman Steve
Stockman. He's a respect respected
member of the Republican party and the
former US represent for Texas. He's now
running again. Hopefully he will win and
we're helping him so he will have a a
voice at the at the Congress. He's known
for his uh strong national security
positions and long-standing commitment
uh to American strategic leadership and
a big Trump supporter. Uh he carry
distinguished relationship with our
president. Uh we have a member from the
European Parliament Diana Susaka. She's
a member of um she is a powerful voice
of sovereignty, human rights and
European engagement in the Middle
Eastern affairs. She will arrive soon.
Also, um we have an Iraqi uh national
opposition delegation. We are honored uh
to welcome uh uh them. They are very u
important uh to speak about Iraq. Uh we
will um have Professor Abdul Nasal
Aljanabi. He's the president of the
National Council of the Iraqi
opposition. He will speak us with us uh
through Zoom on the screen. And we have Dr.
Dr.
uh Barbbouti uh he's the chairman of the
foreign relations committee. Uh we have
Dr. Sabah al- Khaz. He's a leadership
council member, member of the foreign
relations committee. We have Mr. Douglas
Cook. Uh he's a senior adviser for the
president. Uh Professor Riyad Jabar
Gazi, he's a senior adviser and
prominent Middle Eastern astronomer.
Uh we have Major General Dr. Abdul Wahab
Kasab. Uh he's a leadership council
member and head of the strategic studies
center. We have judge Muhammad Salmad
Abdul Wahib. He's a leadership member
and head of the council in Canada. Uh
Mr. Ram Ry Jabar also a leadership
member. Did I forget anybody? Everybody
is here. So your presence uh adds a lot.
Uh it's add deep depth, urgency and real
world perspective to our discussion on
Iraq's future. Uh now it's our honor to
introduce introduce a statesman, a
scholar and one of the most influential
voices advocating for Iraq's future,
Professor Abdul Nasar Al Janabi. He's
the president of the National Council of
the Iraqi opposition. He is a prominent
national figure uh whose career has been
defined by integrity, courage and an
unwavering commitment to the sovereignty
and unity of Iraq. Um his leadership
stands out uh at a historic moment when
Iraq is searching for a new direction
free from corruption, militias and
foreign interference.
uh today he join us not only as a
political leader but as a moral voice
calling for national reconciliations
institutional reform and the restoration
of Iraq's rightful place among the
community of nations. Uh please welcome
the president of the national council of
the Iraqi opposition and the future
Uh we have to thank Professor Aljanabi
for this powerful and important message.
Uh we would like to welcome our guest
Dana Luanichi Sasuaka. Is it correct?
>> Yeah, it's okay. [laughter]
It's okay.
>> You're the member of the European
Parliament. We're going to get back to
you, give you the floor to speak about
your comments. But first of all, I want
to open the discussion with a brief
inter uh interventions from our
distinguished guests. I'm going to start
with Congressman Steve Stockman. Um what
do you think and what is your
perspective on President Donald Trump
national security vision uh and how uh
it can intersect with the future of the
Middle East especially uh for Iraq?
Well, one of the things I know um as we
all know, Trump is working very hard for
peace and the fact that Iran has so much
influence and affected the politics uh
inside Iraq, I think is self-evident. In
fact, I can recall a story where uh they
pulled over a petrol truck that was
carrying supposedly gasoline and they
opened it and it had all the ballots
already filled out and it came from
Iran. So we know that to interfere in
the elections and we'd like to see
return to free elections without
interference from Iran. And the
president I think would also like to see
uh a disengagement from Iran. Uh they
lost power in Syria. They lost power in
in quite a few places now. Uh in in
Israel and and even in Lebanon, they've
been diminished quite a bit. But I think
that there's still a desire there to
interfere in Iraqis freedom and Iraq is
a separate distinct culture that needs
to be preserved. And I think that uh
fighting terrorism is paramount. Uh we
don't want to return to the state where
Iraq sponsors terrorism and uh anything
that we can facilitate a free Iraq free
of also of terrorism and free of
interference with Iran. Um now I was
talking earlier the Iranian people we
like the problem is not the Iranian
people so much as the Iranian regime.
The people itself have rose up several
times against Iran and uh I just wish
United States at that time was under a
different administration were more
supportive of that uprising and I think
things would have turned out
differently. Uh on a final note, uh I
know that um the uh the Iran Iranian
government threatened to kill President
Trump and he had an opportunity to kill
them and kill the leader. He sent over
those B5 uh not B-52 B1 bombers and they
had quite enough equipment to and they
knew where he was and they could have
sent in three or four more waves that
would have absolutely destroyed they
could have destroyed all the
infrastructure and uh he didn't but in
return now Iran is saying they're going
to rebuild their nuclear weapons and
they're just gone back to being
belligerent and I think that uh Iran
needs to realize that uh at some point
uh Trump could do that again and but we
want to see a secure uh Iraq. I I toured
it and had a beautiful time there and it
was really wonderful.
But um I really Yeah.
So in in the conclusion, I just want to
say that anything we can do uh in fact
the president of of the National Council
of Iraq opposition point out something
that was really critical. He said he
wanted to work with Kurds, Christians,
Shiites, and Sunnis to set them all on
equal footing and uniting them in
opposition to terrorism and to
interference by Iran. And I want to
thank Maria for having putting this fine
program together. I think she's an ever
ready bunny. She's always going. I'm not
like that. I flew in and got up at 1 and
I'm here, but she never seems to sleep.
She's wonderful. So, I appreciate you
and thank you for coming out and all of
you guys. I don't know what it is in
Arabic. Could you help me in Arabic?
>> Keep Iraq free. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. [music]
[music] [bell]
>> I'm going to pass like a few
contribution and then we can open a uh
like open the debate. Um we're going to
get back to you soon. Um, I want to hear
Soc.
Call me Diana. [laughter] It's okay. I
don't want to kill it.
>> And if it's easier for you, Yvanovich.
>> Yeah. Uh, just I have a question. You
were known for your strong position on
sovereignty. And uh I want to ask you
how do you see Europe um role evolving
uh in supporting stability in the Middle
East particularly regarding Iran uh this
stabilization activities and the future
of democratic forces in Iraq especially
when we hear uh someone like uh
professor Ajanabi saying some he have a
good plan for Iraq a free Iraq
>> what's your plan
>> well uh I'm a deputy in European parliament
parliament
um I entered in European parl Parliament
last year in 2024. I was senator in
Romania from 2020 to 2024. I'm the
president of SOS Romania Party, the
newest party. It's a nationalist party,
sovereignist party, and it's the only
opposition in Romania. I'm in opposition
also in European Parliament. And I'm a
member of Union of Mediterranean States
in European Parliament of Mashrek uh states.
states.
>> Mashre. Yeah. So, um,
regarding the European Union, European
Union now it's in chaos. >> Mhm.
>> Mhm.
>> Uh, you saw we have problems with, uh,
freedom of speech. Um, we have a lot of
persons who are put in prison because of
their freedom of speech. You don't know
how to treat the problem in Middle East
because you have some groups who support
Iran. You have some groups who supports
Iraq and the others and depends on who
is leading and the interests of some
countries in European Union especially
the countries who are leading Germany,
France, Italy and you saw uh now the the
action of Georgia Maloney. Yeah, she
tried to enter in this space of Middle
East. So
uh I participated to some meetings with
presidents from uh uh Middle East and
and
>> do you do you see any influence of Iran
in Iraq and that has to be stopped there
are fueling
>> in European Union? No no I don't see
this kind of uh of influence. I saw the
um some trying to uh influence from
European Union in some countries.
Uh but I asked them okay you send some
aids, you send some uh money but what
else you are doing there
>> because we have to do actions.
>> But I saw them staying in their place.
>> Uh and you have to understand that that
is very difficult in Europe. we have a
lot of uh migrants from all the states
from Middle East.
>> So if you say something about Iran,
maybe some people from Iran which are
not guilty for what is happening there,
they are in Europe, they might react. If
you say something about the others, they
will react. So especially in Germany
when this migration is so in a in a
growing level and I don't know there are
millions there they have a problem to
interfere. So if you expect that
European Union to be involved like
President Trump, no, don't expect that.
Not with the lion as a commission.
>> President Trump mission of for peace in
the Middle East and his peace plan that sign
sign
>> in Europe.
>> No, the peace plan for Gaza and for
stability in the Middle East.
>> Well, we voted in European Parliament.
We voted for uh this plan. We voted for
existence of two states.
Uh but uh you have to understand
something that in European Union we have
a very big influence of Israel
>> and uh now they have a problem with the
lion and with European parliament
because they do not agree this kind of
two states
>> um solution. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> So we are again in the middle of a
problem with Europe divided into parts.
There are voices. I'm a lawyer and uh
there are voices who are asking okay we
have two states but where are the
borders what will happen to Gaza because
if Gaza won't stay in Palestine we will
have a continuous war
>> what happened with West Bank because if
we don't have West Bank to Palestinians
it will be a continuous war
>> so if I think M president President
Trump is alone in this process
>> I I don't see anyone with his courage
and to to the uh to this uh uh position
and this force and to this u willing to
have peace
>> uh in other states because they are
afraid and maybe they say okay we
support Mr. Trump but how you support
Mr. Trump how you support USA
>> we need more action I'm going to go turn
to Dr. Sabah aluzah Dr. Sabah, with the
growing strategic alignment between the
United States and Saudi Arabia under
President Trump, what opportunities do
you see for Iraq to reconnect with the
Arab world and benefit from Gulf
economic leadership?
>> Thank you very much for this question.
It's very pivotal question if I may say.
I think the US and Sudi's partnership
under President Donald Trump and um his
excellency Crown Prince Muham Muhammad
bin Salman leadership
um marks a pivotal opportunity
for Iraq to escape
um Iranian militia
interference, reclaim Arab centrality
and uh thrive.
economically and securely. I think um
the US Saudi defense agreement, the SDI,
SDA, I think
>> uh bolster deterrence and burden sharing
enabling trilateral from bilateral to
trilateral maybe in the future, I don't know,
know,
>> uh packs that dismantle proxies and
foster Arab unity. I would like to add
that the joint strategic vision on defense,
defense, energy,
energy,
and counterterrorism emphasizing
emphasizing
deals over conflict. And this is what
President Trump's policy prevailing in
the Middle East. It's a big chance for
Iraq, by the way, to say no to Iran and
its military or militias, if I may say,
>> curbing Iran's re regional disruption
and eliminating its obstacles,
Iraq will transform from proxy battlefield
battlefield
to prosperous pillar and will join the
rich and safe Gulf family.
Iraq will enjoy, I believe, real
security, prosperity, and peace. But
only only if Iraq kicks out Iran's
militia and chooses its Arab brothers.
This is my answer to your question.
>> Uh so what how you can desri describe
the mission for Maxavaya? Uh he's coming
to Iraq soon. What what you can say?
What is your message? We heard Professor
Aljanabi putting a plan to free Iraq
from Iran. So is there any details we
can discuss here?
>> Well, I I do commend, you know, this
envoy mission to Iraq, you know,
Maxabay, he's an Iraqi, you know, and he
knows very well. I hope the community in
Iraq, but I do advise, if I may, I want
to pass a message to him. Please listen
to the right people. And I think we are
not only we are among the right people,
the right you know source of information
because the calamity in Iraq, the
disaster in Iraq is being brought from
outside Iraq and the problem is the militias
militias
which is against sovereignty.
The militia and Iran influence in Iraq
is unbelievable. I mean, if you want to
build Iraq, if you want to stabilize
Iraq, if you want to help Donald Trump
and Republican
to deise a new Iraq, we need to put
priorities that militia should not be
there. So, Maxabaya should work should work
work
very hard in order to get rid of the
militias and the influence of Iran. um
the government was supposed to be
established after the last you know the
latest election on the 11th of November
haven't been born yet and the reason is
very clear
>> because they want to put a prime
minister who is a proxy of Iran
>> or or he's at least biased to Iran
interest in Iraq which stays you know
for the last 22 years from 2003 up to
now we don't want this if you want to
create a new Iraq
stability, freedom, freedom. Okay. No
killings. There should be no militia.
This is my, you know, this is my my, you
know, my note, if I may say, my letter
>> or my message to Mr. Maxabay.
>> I will turn to uh uh Mr. Cop. Thank you.
Uh Dr. Sabah, you're awesome. uh as a
senior advisor uh to the president of
the national council of the Iraqi
opposition, how does the council under
professor al- janabi uh position itself
as a credible alternative for Iraq?
The strategy, the strategy of making a
one Iraq, uniting Iraq by focusing on
the true Iraqis is the the way forward
and his his strategy,
which is to to take the example and the
leadership provided by the president on
a new strategy for Iraq is to form a
group of trusted, true Iraqis and form a
true Iraq, a one Iraq. So Iraq that
existed before 2003 reemerges
and that is his vision and his plan.
>> That's wonderful. Professor Razi, would
you like to add any comment in this regard?
Thank you. Uh, Major General, Dr. Abdul
Wahabas, would you like to add some remarks?
remarks?
>> Uh, okay. Thank you. Well, uh, I might
add a certain points to the picture
which have been drawn by my colleagues.
I know that Iraq fall
Iraq fall a victim for uh a very
concentrated Iranian influence
which um
uh took out uh its sovereignity, took
out its personality as a state and uh uh
brought damage to all uh aspects of the
Iraqi uh life. So what is needed here is
try to concentrate all our efforts
and by the um uh uh help of uh President Trump
Trump
just to
uh reestablish
the Iraqi personality
first, the Iraqi state second, and the
Iraqi role in the area as a balancing
ing a figure balancing factor between
all various of the uh power aspect which
are uh uh I mean working in the main in
the place if I may dwell on this point
>> uh I may say that uh let us look there
is a triangle Iraq Iran and Turkey there
is a quad
with Iraq Iran Turkey and Saudi Arabia
And there is a Pentagon which is Iraq,
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and
Egypt. So if you try to to to study and
analyze and look deeply in the Iraqi
role on these, you will find Iraq here
will be the stabilizing factor. And uh
just to to defend my point of view, let
us look at Iraq before 203 where it
blocked the way uh uh uh to Iran to you
know infiltrate to the west. When when
this when this portal which we call it
the portal the eastern border of the
Arab world had been demolished by the invasion.
invasion.
You see that the Iraqi the Iranian
influence uh filtered to the all and all western
western
uh uh area of the Middle East first
arrived to the shores of the
Mediterranean second go deep to the
Babel Mander to Yemen.
>> So this all came to be materialized
because Iraqi personality and Iraqi
state had been damaged. So what we are
looking for here
with the help imminent I mean help which
is expected uh by President Trump that
create a new a new state in Iraq free
from the sectarian division first free
from the Iranian influence second free
from corruption free. So there are three
three main factors which we uh have to
to work upon to bring a new Iraqi state
which can stand in its place as a part
of the international [clears throat]
community and a very good and sincere
ally to the United States which will uh
bring prosperity to the country itself
and prosperity to the American interests
in the area.
>> Thank you for your opinion. Uh, judge
Muhammad Abdahed, you'd like to say
something? Uh, I would like to ask you
about uh what uh the mission of Mark
Savaya will drive his work today and why
does it matter
um now more than any time or uh any moment
moment
more than ever? Why it's important?
>> U uh that's a very complicated question.
Thank you. Uh first of all um uh I want
to say in the name of God the most
gracious, most merciful and um on behalf
of the National Council uh of Iraqi
opposition and uh on also on the behalf
of Professor um Sheh Abdas Janabi, I
would like uh uh to thank you on having
us here today.
uh and uh it's a great opportunity and
therefore I would like to take advantage
of this great opportunity to convey the
message first uh to the um great people
of America and also to the president u
Donald Trump. Uh I like him. I am his
one of his fan. And not only that, I
only I also pray for him every day uh on
his great job that he's doing of
cleaning up the mess of the previous or
and also fix the mistakes of the
previous presidents and to
clean up and make uh America great
again. And we the and because we share
the same values and uh with the
president uh Donald Trump and the
Americans, true Americans, uh we uh
would like him to uh help the Iraqi
people to make Iraq great again. And how
we can do this? by spreading the peace
and bring stability to Iraq because Iraq
is the heart of the world. And once Iraq
is stabilized, the region, the whole
region is stabilized and therefore we
can have more econ uh economy prosperity
and uh business and peace and this is
what we want actually and Mr. Mark
Sevaya um since he is um delegated by
the President Donald Trump we are 100%
sure that he will do a great job because
Mr. Donald Trump he does not choose any
person he knows what he's doing and
therefore uh we pray also for Mr. Marxaya.
Marxaya.
He's an Iraqi
also. So we pray for him to save Iraq
and save the whole world, save the uh
Middle East and bring peace once again
and also stop the sufferings of the
Iraqis, Syrian, Lebanese and uh um all
the people uh in the region. Therefore,
u uh I pray uh um and I strongly support
what again once again, Mr. uh Donald
Trump, God bless you. Uh you are a great
man and we need your help now and um I I
also pray long life for you. And also I
would like to thank all the good nice
people of America. They're great people
and we know them that they like Iraqis
and we like them too and therefore let's
make history of bringing peace once
again. Thank you.
>> Perfect. Thank you so much. I will
before I close the session I will ask
Dr. David Ad Barbbouti the chairman of
the foreign relationship committee at
the national council for Iraqi
opposition. My question is if professor
Janabi become president of Iraq, how he
make can rebuild trusted
relationshipship with the United States
under President Trump.
>> First of all, I want to uh talk about the
the
Mark Savaya mission and also what uh Mr.
Trump what he do and what he think about
the Iraq how he put Iraq in peaceful
position or uh peaceful in this countries
countries
>> it's very hard you know because it's not
just for militia our problem is just not
just militia it's before 22 years the
Iraqi people in the mind Iran work for
destroyed the education and also to feel
they are belong the nationality of Iraq
This is very hard mission you know
because this is in the 22 years now we
have generation
from zero age now they are 22 years old
>> and now in his in their mind they have
darkness you know we have no education
in Iraq and how you can lead people with
this opinion it's very hard it's it's a
it's not just to lead Iraq. It's not
just to kick up militia Iran militia
from Iraq. If we know now militia is not
there and Iraq now it's a free and
somebody came to lead the Iraq
first of all start from education very
important and education
uh start to to uh make a people feel the
nationality this is also now we didn't
feel if you go to Iraq Now many people
if you ask them they say two things Iran
our brother and [clears throat]
uh religion talking and it's nothing
else if you ask him about the what's the
history what is the
future what you do in your life he don't
know he cannot answer and you know
before the 2003
our Iraqi people they are the highest
education people in the
Now we are lowest. Now you go to to
school, schools destroyed.
>> Nobody can say okay it's easy mission.
Kick off the militia and start to lead
the Iraq. It's very hard.
>> This is my opinion. I don't know. Maybe somebody
somebody
>> I wish that will happen.
>> Yeah, of course. Of course. But hard
hard mission. Of course we will. But we
need because the first of all the America
America
own the key.
Okay. the door it's open but when
>> we need help
>> when yeah when they open the door all
the militia from Iran came to Iraq and
start destroyed if this key lock it
again and America take this key again
and give to some leader to lead Iraq
like Abdas Janabi of course it will be good
good
>> great decisions
>> yeah but but we need
>> it's going to take time
>> this is very important for us Uh do you
want any Dr. Sabat you want to add some?
>> Yeah I I do appreciate what we've heard
you know so far. Um but there are it's
not one way system it's two-way system.
There is some responsibilities and obligations
obligations
of the Donald Trump President Donald
Trump and Republican let's say
administration to do in order to save
Iraq. But the other is we, the Iraqis,
anything inside Iraq, this is our
responsibility. Our responsibility is to reestablish
reestablish
Iraq once again. Just open the door for
me. Get rid of the militia and get rid
of Iran and the rest leave it to me.
Thank you very much. And the other
thing, we have to establish a nice
lovely exclusive
treatment with the USA.
I mean people all over the world they
pray to God to have a nice lovely
relationship with the superpower
America. Now, if we are lucky enough,
you know, to have sided or the the US
administration sided with the Iraqi, new
Iraq, we
>> do think it's now or never, this is the
right time. It's the only option and
it's the only uh way to get through it
and Iraq could be great. I mean, under
President Trump, there is decisive actions.
actions. >> If
>> If
believe me, if President Trump says yes,
everything will happen. of course in the
will of God. This is no argument about
it. I am a believer. But in the end of
the day, if President Trump says yes,
come on, go to Iraq. Okay? Salvage Iraq.
Get rid of the militias. Get rid of Iran influence.
influence.
Get Iraq back to to the Gulf, to the
brothers, to the Arab
>> life. Everything will be okay. Inside
Iraq, this is our responsibility. And we
have by the way we have in our you know opposition.
opposition.
>> What makes you different than the others?
others?
>> What? Which one?
>> The opposition. This
>> the opposition. Because
>> what makes you different than everybody?
>> Because we have because we have interim
government. We have a government a
shadow government >> ready.
>> ready.
>> Ready. All ministers are ready. All the
um papers all works is ready. You just
name it. We've got every single things.
All the programs are available. As soon
as the change happens, we can take over
and then everything will be smooth. It
takes times. Yes, I know that. But this
is our responsibility. Otherwise, we're
going to sit back and say, "Okay, USA,
come in, change the things, and we'll
come pop in." No, it doesn't work like
that. You know, we will we will
appreciate, you know, the help of the USA,
USA,
>> but in the end of the day, the burden
the burden is on our shoulders, the
Iraqis. Yeah,
>> we going to do everything we can in
order to get Iraq once again.
>> Yeah, I'll give you the the floor for
you to make the closing and uh because
you're the only congressman here. Yeah,
we still have relation with the Congress
and Joe Wilson promised us to to meet
him soon. So,
>> this what my concern is is that I think
maybe everybody here is not aware. the
Iraq government just made an agreement
with the United States to leave Iraq.
And I think that's a very serious thing
because uh Trump doesn't he's taken a
lot of flack for wherever he goes now if
he asserts there's a part of the party
that's really against any activity
military. It's retrenching. It's part of
what I call the libertarian wing uh like
the Ron Paul wing that doesn't want to
get involved in anywhere in the world.
They want to get rid of NATO. I mean,
it's everything. So, the the problem is
is that the first administration had a
very strong central security. Now, it's
it's pushing the other way. And my
concern is that you don't have a big
enough presence here in Washington
because if you could tell your story,
people like me, members, could
understand your story. But if you don't
communicate with a congressman, he has
no idea what you're doing or what you're
saying. There's no presence here. I was
on foreign affairs and very rarely did I
ever get an Iraq delegation saying,
"Hey, we want you to do this. This is
our problems. This is how we succeeded
and the Iraqis has no chance until
>> Well, it's because like again there
there was uh heavy lobbying by uh the
the Turkish ambassador who's a very good
friends with Donald Trump. In fact, he
was the head of the inaugural ball uh
back in 2016.
So, we need a champion here in DC to
champion your cause. We can't hear you
if you're not here.
>> You know, if you're in a relationship, a
husband and wife, and your wife doesn't
hear you and your wife's talking and you
don't hear,
>> you're going to have problems in your relationship.
relationship.
>> We need extensive work.
>> Yeah. We need you suggest
>> I think you need to open up a presence
here and literally go have Joe Wilson
will open doors for you.
>> Let him open doors for you. He's your
He's your He's your key. But you have to
have an office or something here to go
with them. And never let up because as a
congressman, we have a thousand things
on our plate. Like Europe, all these
troubles around the world, you're not
the only one. Everybody says, "Trump,
you got to solve it. You got to solve
it." And he kind of throws fire on there
because he goes, "I solved eight wars."
By the way, in Cambodia and Thailand,
they're fighting again. And Africa,
they're fighting again.
>> Thank you so much. your insights have um
helped advance our uh shared purpose,
strengthening America's leadership,
supporting a more stable and pro
prosperous Middle East. Uh I would also
like to extend our gratitude to the
management and the staff of Trump
National Golf Club, Washington DC for
their excellent hospitality. Uh a small
gift was uh given to you, a small token
appreciation. Uh and also we want you to have um we would like to invite you for
have um we would like to invite you for dinner and to explore the facility.
dinner and to explore the facility. Thank you so much again for being with
Thank you so much again for being with us here tonight. God bless you and God
us here tonight. God bless you and God bless the United States. [applause]
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