Posted on 02/25/2009 4:17:44 AM PST by dead
President Barack Obama is expected to order all U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said, closing the door on a war that has led to the death of 4,250 American soldiers...
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Do not expect the word "victory" from the AP or Obama.
4,250 American soldiers died in a winning effort to overthrow a hostile regime, liberate the Iraqi people, and establish a beachhead for democracy in the middle east.
A noble goal, achieved with great skill and honor by the American military. And their commander-in-chief will bring them home in shame, for his own political reasons.
Maybe I'm wrong... when will Obama schedule the ticker tape parade in NYC?
The story pretends that Obama will pull ALL the troops but it looks like Obama is hedging his bet.
Last night every time they showed the Joint Chiefs, they sat slump shouldered, they know b. hussein, is a poser / traitor to this country and the military is nothing more than pawns in his eyes.
I am just sick.
A noble goal, achieved with great skill and honor by the American military. And their commander-in-chief will bring them home in shame, for his own political reasons.
The victory is nothing short of amazing. I don't want to diminish the loss of any soldier, but invading a country, and staying to reestablishing a government, at the cost of 4250 Americans is a military efficiency never before achieved. We lost more American lives in the first 15 minutes of the Normandy invasion.
I thought Obama said that we are not quitters?
Bringing the troops home, O’Caesar? Is this wise?
That, and they will be seen here State side, working on Chairman MAObama’s “infrastructure” projects to create the illusion that the Fed is spending less.
As you know, it is not what he says, but how he says it.
...... and opening the door to terrorists who have no respect for Obumble.
2010. How appropriate. Right in time for the elections.
Nope, nothing to see here. Moveon....
Yes, isn't that amazing - according to Obama's own plan, he may leave more than a third of the force currently there in place for however long he feels like.
Yet the AP leads with the lie that he will fulfill his campaign promise to withdrawal ALL troops.
If McCain won the election, the exact same withdrawal plan would be headlined, "McCain to leave up to 50,000 troops in Iraq indefinitely."
closing the door on a war that has led to the death of 4,250 American soldiers...
Probably still less then the combined murders by illegal immigrants against American citizens during same time period yet not a peep from our always fair and balanced MSM...
ditto Japan 63 years
ditto South Korea - 55 years
The plan has worked exceedingly well.
For Iraq and much of the mideast to know peace, stability and prosperity in that part of the world, the US must continue the same policy. Otherwise Iran and/or Syria will in a short time take over our role and there will never be peace, stability and prosperity.
The complete withdrawal of American forces will take place by December 2011, the period by which the U.S. agreed with Iraq to remove all troops.
Military Assistance Groups don’t count. They are under the Embassy. That is why it is so large.
Just like the brigade of non-troops we have in Saudi under that Military Asssistance Group. Officially, we do not have “troops” in Saudi...
Or the personnel stationed in Denmark where the stationing of foreign troops is forbidden in peacetime. They count NATO as Danish and the rest are under the Embassy, either USDAO or ODC...
As for combat troops, there is no officially recognized distinction between “combat” and “non-combat” troops. It is whatever the politicians want to claim it is.
It has already been mentioned that some Brigade Combat Teams are to be redesignated as “training” brigades...
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