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APNewsBreak: US drops keeping troops in Iraq
Yahoo (AP) ^ | 10/15/11 | LARA JAKES and REBECCA SANTANA

Posted on 10/15/2011 5:45:45 PM PDT by DemforBush

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential for instability...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afreakinqueen; daysnotweeks; illbehome4christmas; iraq; mymuslimfaith; obamabinbiden; troops
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To: Hugin
I don’t see this as a valid comparison to Vietnam. We lost there.

Not actually. We won decisively in military action. The lying bastard Water Cronkite falsely reported that we lost, and the rest of the MSM (sole source of information then) played along.

Even the South Vietnamese did well at holding the line and forcing the North to retreat, UNTIL the DemoRat traitors in Congress cut off their funding and ammunition.

The Rats have been traitors since WWII.

41 posted on 10/15/2011 6:59:35 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

“The Rats have been traitors since WWII.”

Good Post, but actually traitors since WWl, Woodrow Wilson l.


42 posted on 10/15/2011 7:08:34 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: dfwgator

Deja Vu all over again. Dayum!

Marxist, Muslim bastard.


43 posted on 10/15/2011 7:09:51 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Navy Patriot

I followed it all and do remember it vividly. The RVNs did well with US air support. When we withdrew it they crumpled. It is true that Congress cut off aid at the end, but they still had huge stockpiles in place. In any case, the whole goal of the NV was to bleed us until the American public got sick and demanded a withdrawal. They had a lot of help from various people on the left, but more than anything people just got sick of the war. Personally I blame Johnson for getting us into a war with no real plan to win. I just don’t see any comparison with Iraq.


44 posted on 10/15/2011 7:10:15 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: DemforBush

Did we ever fight such a long, costly and important war and then pull out completely in 8 years?

Where next? South Korea and the DMZ perhaps?

hmmm


45 posted on 10/15/2011 7:14:45 PM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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To: Hugin
The NV goal was to take SV and create a united communist state. Our goal was to stop them.

A significantly large portion of the DemoRat party (in power at the time), American media, entertainment industry and unions goal was to create a Communist state right here in the USA and everywhere else they could.

We had no common goal.

46 posted on 10/15/2011 7:16:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: dfwgator

I doubt it. Iraq is stronger than that compared to its enemies.


47 posted on 10/15/2011 7:30:42 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: rockinqsranch
actually traitors since WWl, Woodrow Wilson l.

You are, of course, correct.

Early in the 20th Century, Communists promoted their cause openly, and there is proof that Joe Stalin funded numerous Communist front groups (ACLU), Lenin had sent operatives as well. The New York Times had Soviet reporters that fully informed them of Stalin's genocides, and they published not a word.

Before WWII they all went to ground because they were attracting the attention of anti communists, and continued with the infiltration and sabotage to this very day ("environmentalists").

48 posted on 10/15/2011 7:31:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Hugin

Sisyphus didn’t have it as hard as someone trying to disabuse folks of comforting myths.


49 posted on 10/15/2011 7:32:45 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: DemforBush

15 MAR 2003

 

 

50 posted on 10/15/2011 7:55:06 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Wow for once we agree. He will try to fulfill the rest if his malfeasance just in time for the election.


51 posted on 10/15/2011 8:04:30 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: Hugin
Actually, the comparsion is very valid.

We did not lose in Vietnam.

We signed a peace agreement and then pulled our troops out.

It was the refusal of the Democratic Congress, after Watergate, to honor our commitment to S.Vietnam when the Communists (surprise) broke the peace agreement.

52 posted on 10/15/2011 8:14:16 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
I feel like they are doing this preparation for an Obama campaign ad

First thing I thought of when I saw the headline.

The denial shows this is being floated and of course will be market-tested.

I'd say this admin's obviousness is shocking, but the Occupy folks prove that doesn't matter.

53 posted on 10/15/2011 8:22:59 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: Darkwolf377
You are correct. Just a ploy by The Messiah to make himself look like a great military leader. If it works and peace comes over Iraq as our guys leave then The Messiah gets 4 more years. If the place erupts in a blood bath and Iran moves in and takes control he is in worse shape than ever.

And don't think for one minute that he hasn't cut a deal with the weird beards in Iran to keep things quite over there until after the 2012 election. He'd do that in a heart beat. You keep a lid on things and we won't blow up your nuclear bomb program.

54 posted on 10/15/2011 8:49:47 PM PDT by Flint
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To: Flint

This action is chilling to anyone with a working brain. He would literally sink Iraq back into chaos just to insure four more years of golf.

How terrifying is that?


55 posted on 10/15/2011 9:15:39 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: mazda77
Bring them home in time for a Christmas break so they can be in the new theatre of Uganda chasing Christian freedom fighters wanting to rid their country of the radical Islamists.

What makes you think the Lord's Resistance Army are freedom fighters? I guess that depends on how you spell freedom:

The LRA is accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children and forcing children to participate in hostilities.

56 posted on 10/15/2011 9:21:02 PM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: DemforBush

Now taking bets that “Gitmo” will be closed within the next 6 months.....

I’m just sayin.


57 posted on 10/15/2011 9:21:18 PM PDT by CWSNTEXAS (Am I'm the ONLY Conservative Jew in America? What's wrong with you other schmucks?)
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To: Iron Munro

The “Dark Continent” is more pro-American than the Arab World. You Americans have spent the last ten years wasting blood and treasure on ingrates.


58 posted on 10/15/2011 9:31:02 PM PDT by AfricanChristian
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To: upchuck
The LRA is accused of widespread human rights violations,

Now just set there for a moment and think about your comment.

Question 1: Who is making the accusations?

Question 2: Once identified, do they have a hidden agenda?

Question 3: This is Uganda; Link

Question 4: Do you really think that after reading the above report that anything of reports coming out of this country should be the basis for our best being subjected to picking a side to fight on?

59 posted on 10/15/2011 9:55:02 PM PDT by mazda77 (and I am a Native Texan)
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To: Jim Robinson

Right on brother! Bring them all home!!!


60 posted on 10/15/2011 10:15:42 PM PDT by ImpBill (196th Light Infantry Brigade - DaNang PhuBai/Hue - Little "r" republican!)
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