Officials: New Trump travel ban removes Iraq from list

[karynnj]

12. Great observation -- and the fact that so many Iraqis have worked and are working with the US

comes into play. I think they were embarrassed when US military vets spoke out for Iraqi national translators who were being denied entry to the US because of the original version of the ban.

I think the fact that they eliminated the permanent Syrian ban shows that this is a PR move. I suspect that this is designed to allow them in three months to announce that -- unlike Obama before him -- he nows has extreme vetting in place and he is thus protecting America. In fact, I doubt he will find much to really change. Still, it will be a Trumpian victory that his masses will claim is part of making America Great. In fact, all it did was create a hateful, anti- Moslem, zenophobic wave that has terrorized many people in this country.