Iraqi VEEPAdel Abdul Mahdi answers Joe Scarborrough’s famous question.
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an “idiot decision” and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country’s future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday.
“Iraq was put under occupation, which was an idiot decision,” Mahdi said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Mahdi’s party, the powerful Shi’ite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was one of the exiled opposition parties consulted by Washington as it planned the invasion.