Leaving Iraq
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- 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/…
- BattleAxe0
When there is no Base housing American Military personnel , then we are still in Iraq
- flashbender0
Mission Accomplished! (again)
- TheBlueOne0
“...for all our grief
we will hide our sorrows in our hearts,
for weeping will not avail us.”
- Homer, The Illiad
- e-pill0
...this is how it was for my family, being Jewish living in Iraq for 26 centuries to be smuggled out of the country in the 1950s to escape religious persecution.. this is very exact story in detail of the lifestyle and history of my family.
the professor speaking is not related to me.
- do you feel safer now that US and friends steam rolled the place?Dodecahedron
- i am a new yorker born and raised, i can care less what happens to that region now.e-pill
- acescence0
of course there are what, 50,000 "non-combat" troops still there. just call them something else, mission accomplished!
- Well we still have 35,688 troops in Japan and that war ended, what? 60 years ago?TheBlueOne
- And upwards of 100,000 contractors http://www.guardian.…nuggler
- BonSeff0
MUSLINS!
- ukit0
And just seven and a half years after this bold prediction:
- MarleyMarl0
never should have been there in the first place
- ukit0
So can anyone honestly say they even know why we went there?
Do you think Obama knows? People in Congress? Did Bush even know?
Was the whole thing a strategic move to control oil resources, box in Iran or just a huge misjudgement?
- crackish addiction to oil combined with a sick dose of HUBRIS.ItTango
- we've established a permanent base there, we are never leaving.acescence
- and, of course, GREED.ItTango
- oil oil oil. thats it.iCanHasQBN
- ItTango0
@ukit -
Yep. 7.5 years at war without even the slightest declaration of war...
- raf0
It must be kept on, war is very good business for US companies with access to govt contracts.
The deal is simple: transfer as much taxpayers' money as possible to private accounts of companies producing weapons, ammo, parts and all sorts of supplies and services.
- Dodecahedron0
yay war profiteering! the banks and military industrial complex thank you.
- ukit0
Of course, you gotta remember the war had majority support when the whole build up was happening...so you can't just point the finger at the government. Oh yeah, and then they reelected Bush...
- sigh...those were dark timesmonospaced
- there was support because the people were LIED TO. we put trust into a government who was, after all, incredibly corrupt.iCanHasQBN
- Dodecahedron0
convenient that obama sent 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan
- I love how easily people fell for Obama's "good cop" role in this whole drama.raf
- um, what does that mean?ItTango
- To be fair though, he talked the whole election about reengaging in Afghanistanukit
- and he's a dick for itDodecahedron
- And Al Queda WERE in Afghanistan...but the policy is now too little, too lateTheBlueOne
- 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.