Obama: Pulling Combat Troops from Iraq August 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama

it's been a hell of a war, gentlemen. this month will definitely be one to watch, as Obama has announced the withdraw of combat troops by the end of August (2010). However, he says that a 'transitional' force will remain, with numbers around 50,000, to train Iraqi forces. This is good news I think, as fielding thousands and thousands of men and materiel, comes with a hefty price tag. Instead of paying salaries, you're paying for fuel (seriously M1 tanks go through gas pretty quickly), munitions, batteries..basically anything that a troop can be expected to operate or use while deployed, on a daily basis.

The sooner we get out, the better. If the Iraqi forces start to shape up and show that they can walk on their own when we leave, that will be even sweeter.

 

Just bring our guys home, that all I care about.

 

what about the stability of a foreign country, whos government we uprooted and whos way of life we impeded upon?

 

What about the time-honored code of never leaving a soldier alone in the field of battle?

 

well there will be a 50,000 strong unit + Iraqi army to combat the insurgency

no one will be alone, just not without the 150,000 strong family supporting u

 

Get em' home. Fuck the bullshit. I didn't actually expected the troops to be pulled out for real since I think these kinda promises are full of shit.

 

damn them. they should have helped expelled the terrorist. also we was giving financial aid to pakistan and the pakistan was giving the money to the terrorist. so tuff shit for them. afganistan will soon be pakistans problem. the US was idiots for helping afgan during the war against russia and now the very weapons we gave them are the same ones they are using against us.

 

pakistan is real suspect

supposedly they're hiding terrorists while their government say otherwise, and keep taking our help

kinda like when ur best friend has his hand on ur babygirls ass, while saying 'its cool man'

 

It represents a good first step, but seeing is believing. The U.S.A is going to have a significant presence, military and diplomatic, in Iraq for some time to keep an eye on that side of the Iranian border. That is what this is about to be honest.

 

I'm sick to fuckin' death of the assumption that the U.S.A. just HAS to be "The World's Policeman".


With constantly decreasing appreciation or respect from ANY of the fiefdoms that Uncle Sam has looked after...
















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Afghanistan had other motivations, but Iraq I dont know. They kept changing our reason(s) for invasion, from Weapons of Mass Destruction to overthrowing an 'evil' regime. Watch the movie 'Green Zone,' when you get a chance. It's a throwback to the initial stages of post-Hussein Iraq, and how WMD evidence was bringing up paydirt when people investigated. That was a HUGE part of getting the US and her allies into Iraq ASAP, yet we've had so much trouble finding them.

wtf

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq_americans_head_home#mwpphu-container

looks like the Obama administration is trying to make good on its promise. Mind you, there will still be troops in-country for obvious reasons, but they won't be the 'tip of the spear' so to speak. They'll be leaving that to the Iraqis.

 

Let the whole thing implode. I'm so tired of the poor dying in wars that the rich wage. There is no good or bad anymore just rich and poor.

 

long way from the righteousness and necessity of our involvement in World War 2.

you know, back when the line between good and evil was one you could see and touch, because you were actually in some way affected by it. Whether you were Jewish watching a crazy Nazi gas your family, or if you were in Pearl Harbor when the bombs fell. Or perhaps you were in Alaska or the Philippines, when the Japanese invaded and seized territory. You knew what the deal was, and it was a life or death one. Rich, poor, it didn't matter. If you didn't fight, you died.

 

Back then you had to picka side it was country against country for world domination but like dude said in Austin Powers there is no more world only corporations and they run the show.

 

MSNBC devoted the majority of their primetime coverage to report on the U.S. military Iraqi withdrawal.

Fox News devoted 10 minutes.:smt102

 

I think this is huge for Obama and public support. Now the racists will have to find something else to drag him down with...like the fact that he's black or because he brushes his teeth for 10 seconds instead of 30

 

Yeah, they'll think of *some* cockamamie smear campaign somewhere, goddamnit.......:roll:























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personally I liked the 'he wasnt born here' party. No one said shit about Arnold holding the highest position in state government, even tho this motherhubba was born in Austria. All of a sudden, a black guy gets into office and it's a big deal. I understand the legality of it, president versus governor birth status, but still. Clearly racially motivated if you ask me.

 

Basically.

I'm just waiting for the next event to be staged in order to provoke another war of some sort, in addition to the post-war changes that occur afterward.

It will be another case of "here we go again..."