Posted on 06/10/2011 3:56:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The US soldiers' role is to advise and assist Iraq's security forces in fighting insurgents
Iraq will ask the US to keep troops in the country beyond an end-of-2011 pullout deadline, says the nominee to be the next US defence secretary.
Outgoing CIA director Leon Panetta said he had "every confidence that a request like that will be forthcoming".
Mr Panetta was speaking at a US Senate committee considering his nomination.
The US currently has about 47,000 troops in Iraq, none in a combat role. Under a 2008 deal, they are expected to leave by 31 December 2011. Inducements?
"It's clear to me that Iraq is considering the possibility of making a request for some kind of [troop] presence to remain there [in Iraq]," Mr Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
He said that whether that happened depended on what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki might ask for.
But if Baghdad did make such a request, he added, Washington should say yes.
Mr Panetta did not say how many troops would be involved or what they would do.
He said there were still some 1,000 al-Qaeda members in Iraq, and the situation remained "fragile".
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OK cough up a 150 grand for each one a year and maybe we will talk
If they handed us the oil contracts instead of handing them out to those GD foreigners (aka China, france etc) who stood by the sidelines while we duked it out with terrorists in Iraq..
It’s costing more American lives than we can give. Enuff.
Oh Yeah? That right? When? And what will they offer in exchange?
Simple, show us the money!
We knew this a year ago.
Thanks MinorityRepublican.
Gosh, I wonder why they changed their minds?
Wait, let me guess.
Okay, I’ve written my guess on a hidden window.
Hint: “Flock of Seagulls”
Considering they just voted not to increase oil production at the OPEC conference - despite our wishes - we shouldn’t feel compelled to vote millions of dollars and precious American lives to garrison their country any longer. The job is done.
our job is done here. well done, soldier.
Funny, how the liberals decry us as occupiers when Bush was in charge and now we’re the good guys.
I heard that for full support of an army (with air support, tanks, aircraft, etc.) the cost is more like $2 million per year per soldier.
Here's what I have for ya...
My son went thru 3 tours liberating you from a demonic a$$hole. He survived 4 IED/EFP blast's. And I went through all the worry and phone calls to free your dumba$$ from the 7th century.
If the military would have let me go, I would have been there too.
You people need to stand up for yourself now, and take advantage of what the American soldier gave you!
“Hint: “Flock of Seagulls”
They’re so far away? ;)
So close.
OH! I KNOW NOW!!!
Alberta!! ;)
OK cough up a 150 grand for each one a year and maybe we will talk
My thoughts exactly. Why we are there for 10 years is ridiculous. We should have been out of there in 2003 IMHO.
About three years ago I posted it was time to leave, I got called a cut and runner. My response was no, finish and leave. In charlie wilson’s war movie it ended saying basically if only we had stayed and built schools and infrastucture all would be well, I do not believe that. These folks are what they are, it’s time to go. My kid needs to come home. Alive BTW.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the sons and daughters who went there and risked (or gave) their lives to alter the course of history for the people of Iraq, and to take away another hiding place from those who want to kill us and destroy our way of life.
Incidentally, the left continuously told us that we forced ourselves on the Iraqi people and that they didn’t want us there. Now that it’s their guy in the WH, I’m sure the left will sing a different tune.
Well said.
;’)
I really don’t even care about the plotics of Iraq, I know I know, the bottom line is it is time to go. If O baracko wants good poll #’s......GET OUT.
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