say to them well for more let's go to journalist mcgeady in baghdad what are the implications of this vote to end this u.s. led coalition to fight this. well it's complicated and people are still trying to figure out the legal aspects of the decision but as of now it seems like it would be more of a symbolic decision than an immediate expulsion of the 5000 u.s. troops the troops are here in iraq from a 2 dozen letters sent by the iraqi government requesting their present to say isis and. according to the legal agreements of that letter only the prime minister can expel them and right now the current ministers and acting prime minister he resigned from office a few weeks ago only months of protest so it's a new kind of in-between legals that so at the moment it seems like it's sending a strong symbolic message but nothing's going to happen immediately all right so potentially symbolic at least for the time being but overall what would you say that this decision means for the white of region who could step into the role that the u.s. has played in iraq i mean i think it clearly. iraq is