Leaving Iraq
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- BattleAxe0
When there is no Base housing American Military personnel , then we are still in Iraq
- formed0
Tragic, just tragic. Sad that it'll all just go away, people will debate 'who lied' 'why this or that', etc., etc.
Nothing will change. History repeats itself.
- TheBlueOne0
“...for all our grief
we will hide our sorrows in our hearts,
for weeping will not avail us.”
- Homer, The Illiad
- flashbender0
Mission Accomplished! (again)
- georgesIII0
Some Iraki man could get freaking rich selling some
"GET TO DA CHOPPA" t-shirts to US soldiers,but on a more serious note, the US is never leaving Irak.
50000 troops left + thousands private contractors, doesn't mean you're not there anymore.
But fooling the public is always priceless
http://english.aljazeera.net/new…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/da…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/…
- TheBlueOne0
You know, I tend to read alot, and I've read alot of stuff by guys that formulated the US military's COIN policies, alot of them Vietnam era officer corp vets, and they were fucking horrified how 30 years of counter insurgency doctrine got thrown under the bus in Iraq (and Afghanistan)..
To quote, “Samuel Vaughan Wilson stares intently at the television news from Iraq. American infantrymen are kicking in a Sunni Muslim family’s front door, yelling and screaming and manhandling the father. Wilson grimaces. “This isn’t counter-insurgency,” he says. “This is not the right way to do this.”
Yeah, and Samuel Wilson was a bleeding heart hippie*: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam…
*snark
- Ramanisky20
2,666 days since mission accomplished
2,708 days since invasion
- utopian0
This is what most Iraqi children will remember about the U.S.A.
Way to win the "hearts and minds" of Muslims all over the world!
God Bless America and Oil too...
- ukit0
Not to mention that many were Army Reservists who probably never expected to see combat
- TheBlueOne0
C'mon man, have some respect for the absolute raw deal these poor kids had to deal with serving over there. This is going to make the Vietnam Vets look like they got a cushy deal. The tours of duty, the stress...I have nothing but respect for the guys that served there, although I think they got the raw end of the fucking stick...
- THIS!ItTango
- The US army of Vietnam was drafted. The US army of Iraq is volunteer.Continuity
- utopian0
Last American combat troop just raped an Iraqi woman and tossed a grenade at her children, just to say goodbye.
God Bless America!
- TheBlueOne0
The whole enterprise was a horrific waste of resources and life for nothing that I can see that was in our strategic national interest. Add there were plenty in the military and the intelligence services who saw it that way too that were simply purged Soviet style from duty.
Some people got very rich from this, and that's all that I think happened. And I think that's all that was supposed to happen, so yeah, mission fucking accomplished.
- ItTango0
Last American combat troop just passed into Kuwait.
- ItTango0
^Well, I no faith in the media, but as a member of the general populous... I am prepared to accept some responsibility for the future. I am embarrassed that we are so easily lulled to sleep.
- utopian0
"Mission Accomplished" - George W. Bush
- ukit0
Right but you know what, it shouldn't matter, should it? There's always the chance that a Dick Cheney or George Bush gets in power (and there was nothing to suggest Bush was such a radical during the 2000 election). It's up to the public and maybe even more importantly the media to use their fucking brain and figure out what is going on.