Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Newsmax on Friday that pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq would be like “deja vu all over again.”

“A guy named Lloyd Austin, Gen. Austin, attempted to do a withdrawal in Iraq under [Barack] Obama,” Shaffer told “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “And guess what? It didn’t work. As a matter of fact, when there was a contemplation of leaving Afghanistan, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Joe Dunford, went into Obama and said, ‘You pull out of Afghanistan without regard to conditions, you will see another Iraq.’ So we’ve already tried this once.”

His comments came amid reports the U.S. has reached a deal to pull U.S.-led coalition forces out of Iraq beginning next year. According to the report, hundreds of troops would leave Iraq by September 2025, and the rest would be out by the end of 2026.

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