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Reports out of Baghdad confirm that the Iraqi government has given President Trump thirty days to vacate power or be removed by military force.

According to Hamari Humsa, Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N., The atrocities being committed during President Trumps ten days in office leave us no choice but to act to protect the sovereignty of the American People and the world at large.

At a recent press conference, Iraqi President, Fuad Masum, stated, The world cannot sit idly by and do nothing while a fascist chooses blind aggression towards his own people, as well the peace-loving world. Threatening to invade both Mexico and Australia, which would mean thousands of innocent lives lost, was the last straw. We will act on behalf of the entire civilized world and bring democracy to our friends in America.

The tension between the two countries came to a head last week when the White House refused to allow U.N. inspectors access to President Trumps tax returns. A violation of the Geneva convention. England, Australia, France, Germany, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have all pledged to commit troops to the invasion.

The stated policy of Iraq is regime change. ... However, if President Trump were to meet all the conditions of the United Nations, the conditions that I have described very clearly in terms that everybody can understand, and admit once and for all that his inauguration crowd was smaller than Obamas, that in itself will signal the regime has changed, and military action can be avoided, said President Masum.

While many Iraqis believe there should be more talks with America before going to war, a good portion believe its the right thing to do, considering the nuclear capability Trump possesses. However, an overwhelming number of Americans support the invasion.

The guys a loose cannon. If he doesnt like you, he will firebomb your house and throw your family in jail, said one American who wished to remain anonymous. No one should live with that kind of fear.

Some say Iraqs motivation is solely to get their hands on Americas oil reserves, which they took from Iraq back in 2003.

The invasion, dubbed Operation: American Freedom, will commence precisely at midnight, March 2nd.

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U.S. diplomats said that Iraq had wanted to sign two deals with GE that "could be negatively affected," a State Department memo obtained by Politico said. (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock.com)

President Trump's travel restrictions couldreportedly jeopardize some ofGeneral Electric's (GE) business in Iraq, making the industrial giant the latest company to potentially lose out as the White House takes a less globalist approach to the world.

Last month, GE said it had secured more than $1.4 billion in orders from Iraq to develop power plants. GE, in announcing that deal, said it has "over 40 years of presence in Iraq, and supports the country's infrastructure needs in power generation, oil & gas, water processing, aviation and healthcare, through diversified multi-business solutions and local presence."

U.S. diplomats said thatIraq had wanted to sign two more deals with GE that "could be negatively affected," a State Department memoobtained by Politicosaid, citing a top Iraqi official.

"The travel ban called into question whether GE and the U.S. could be reliable partners," the memo said, adding that relations between the two "would be hurt by the new visa policy."

According to the memo, the Iraqi government "wanted to expand Iraq's cooperation with GE into the health, transportation, and aviation sectors, as a well as sign a maintenance deal with GE worth billions of dollars."

Politico noted that it was not known whether Iraq's warning on the deals signaled a form of retaliation and quoted an analyst as saying that cancellation of the deals seemed unlikely given Iraq's power-generation needs.

Shares of General Electric closed down 1 cent at 29.68on the stock market today, near the lowest levels in nearly three months.The company, which makes oil equipment, turbines, locomotives, medical equipment, aircraft engines and many other things, generates more than half its revenue from outside the U.S.

Shares of Boeing (BA), which has a deal with Iran to sell 80 commercial aircraft, fell 1% to 162.26, still above a 160.17 flat base buy point cleared last week.

IBD'S TAKE: As General Electric girds for the potentialriseof U.S. protectionism, here's a look at other stocks from tech and retail that might be affected by Trump's immigration ban.

The executive order signed last Friday suspends visas and prohibits entry for people from seven largely Muslim countries: Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

While the White House has said the restrictions will give the U.S. more time to strengthen national security, they have drawn nationwide protests and created interagency confusion over how to carry out the order.

Analysts in the airline sector have also expressed concern that the executive order's suspension of the Visa Interview Waiver Program could discourage travel and prompt nations to hit back at the U.S. with restrictions of their own or other measures.

This week,GE CEO Jeff Immelt also said in an interview with Bloomberg that he isn't worried about deals in the region but warned that a more open international trade policy that had been in place for generations might be coming to an end.

Immelt, who is on a panel that advises Trump on manufacturing, said the president's attempts to shore up U.S. manufacturing jobs were a good thing, but relationships with the rest of the world were still important.

"Inherently, we don't think things like walls are good ideas," he told Bloomberg, adding: "It's up to me to speak about how important it is that the U.S. have good relations with our potential customers around the world."

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Iraq has roundly rejected US President Donald Trumps recent remarks that Iran is taking over the neighboring Arab country.

Trump had tweeted on Wednesday that Iran is rapidly taking over more and more of Iraq, prompting a harsh reaction by Saad al-Hadithi, the spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadis office, Iraqs private satellite channel al-Sharqiya reported.

Iraq is an independent country, and not influenced by any other state, Hadithi said in a statement.

When taking decisions, Iraq acts freely and independently, said the Iraqi official, adding that the countrys territorial integrity was respectable.

The statement further said the Iraqi government brooks no invasive or interventionist measure against the Arab state by any other country.

We have reciprocal relations and interests with many other world and neighboring countries. These relations, however, have not been shaped based on negligence for Iraqs territorial integrity and independence in decision making, the official added.

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Iran was among the first countries that rushed to Iraqs help when the Daesh terror group in 2014 unleashed a campaign of death and destruction in the northern and western parts of the neighboring Arab state.

At Baghdads request, Tehran has been providing military advisory assistance to the Iraqi forces, enabling them to make numerous gains against Daesh terrorists on the battleground.

The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 based on allegations that the country harbors weapons of mass destruction. The claims were later proven to be groundless, but the invasion and the ensuing chaos went on to kill and displace thousands across Iraq.

Last month, Germanys Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said in widely-reported remarks that the United States wars and its flawed interventionist policy had destabilized the Middle East, causing an increasing number of people to flee the region to seek asylum in Europe.

The US president, himself, acknowledged in the tweet that the US has squandered three trillion dollars in Iraq.

Despite the experience, Washington and dozens of its allies formed a military alliance in 2014 with the declared aim of rooting out the Takfiri Daesh terror group. Now in its third year, the mission has failed to fulfill the avowed goal.

In recent weeks, the new administration in Washington has adopted a tough line in dealing with both Iran and Iraq.

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Last week, trump slapped a 90-day ban on the entry of Iranian and Iraqi citizens, among those of five other Muslim-majority nations, drawing strong condemnations from Baghdad and Tehran.

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DETROIT (WJBK) - The leader of a mosque in Dearborn has confirmed to FOX 2 that a man who claimed his mother died in Iraq after being barred from returning to the United States under a ban instituted by President Trump this weekend, lied to FOX 2 about when her death occurred.

Imam Husham Al-Hussainy, leader of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, says Mike Hager's mom did not pass away this weekend after being barred from traveling to the United States. The Imam confirms that Hager's mother died before the ban was put in place.

After the story aired on FOX 2 and was posted on FOX2Detroit.com, we received many questions about the validity of Hager's claims that his mother died waiting to be approved to come home. FOX 2 has confirmed that his mother died five days earlier.

According to Al-Hussainy, Hager's mother had kidney disease and was receiving treatment in Michigan - where she lived - before traveling to Iraq to visit family. The Imam said she passed away on January 22, 2017, five days before President Trump instituted the travel ban.

On Tuesday, Mike Hager told FOX 2 that he and his family were stopped while trying to return from Iraq to Michigan. He said that he was allowed through because of his American citizenship but his ailing mother and other family members were not. He then claimed that his mom passed away in Iraq on Saturday, as he was traveling to the United States.

Travelers from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia are banned from traveling to the United States for 90 days so the country can detect "individuals with terrorist ties and stopping them from entering the United States."

FOX 2 is continuing to try and contact Hager for more details.

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