Posted on 07/24/2011 6:26:52 AM PDT by KantianBurke
Pentagon officials want a new security pact with Iraq worked out as soon as possible, in part so they can extend support contracts to ensure U.S. forces remaining in that country have food and supplies.
Gen. Raymond Odierno, tapped to be the new Army chief of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee the sooner, the better in response to a question about how soon the military would prefer a new status of forces agreement be put into place.
Under the current agreement, all U.S. forces must be removed from Iraq by Dec. 31. Senior U.S. officials, however, have said recently they expect Baghdad will ask Washington to keep some forces there after the new year.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/iraqs-al-ahdab-oil-field-starts-production-at-around-40k-barrels-per-day-official-says/2011/07/23/gIQApPsBVI_story.html
bump.
...in part so they can extend support contracts to ensure U.S. forces remaining in that country have food and supplies...
Let’s get the hell out of there and never look back bump.
i am not sure it was a good idea to go in iraq in the first place;
it strengthened iran.
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