Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 12/15/2011 11:57:17 AM PST by thouworm
You will leave with great pride -- lasting pride -- secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people to cast tyranny aside and to offer hope for prosperity and peace to this country's future generations," Panetta told U.S. troops. But even as a U.S. military band played a medley of patriotic American tunes, the ceremony -- televised live in the 5 a.m. EST hour -- seemed one-sided without Iraqi participation or even a thank-you.
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Ron Paul is right!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Leon Panetta’s rather empty-sounding homily notwithstanding, one somehow gets the feeling that the Iraqi people don’t really give a rat’s *ss, except to the extent that they’re feeling somewhat impoverished to see Uncle Sugar taking his dollars home with him.
The Iraqis (Muslims) will thank Allah for sending the Infidels to get rid of the more secular Saadam Husein, and give additional thanks to Allah for getting the Infidels off Muslim soil.
Next up - Israel.- Tom
Yes, indeed.
When the crap hits the fan in Iraq, the MSM will be blacking out all the bad news lest it reflect poorly on Dear Leader.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Leon Panetta for the great job he’s doing as secretary of defense. I would like to thank him.....but I can’t. I can’t watch him on tv. Is he handing out ham in the chow line? Nobody hands out ham with as much panache as Panetta.
“Damnit! I hate it when Panetta hands out the ham. A jackass handing out ham. Where’s PETA when you need them?”
At least there are no photos of people hanging off helicopters
Reporters Notebook: Panetta Formally Ends U.S. Military Mission in Iraq
It was a far cry from my previous visits to the region.
During my first trip to Baghdad, Saddam Hussein was still in power and the U.N. weapons inspectors, also known as UNSCOM were being given the run around. I returned again in 2007 just after President George W. Bush announced the surge.
Baghdad was a mess. The drive from the airport was a game of Roulette
[snip]
The ceremony in Baghdad marked the completion of nearly nine years of war. Nearly 4,500 U.S. lives were lost. More than 30,000 U.S. troops were wounded. The death toll for Iraqis reached 100,000.
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The cost to the U.S. -- more than $800 billion.
Soon the Iraqis will be throwing shoes at the last of the departing troops followed by providing Iran with support and access to stage an attack on Israel IMO.
Maybe the Chinese will take over in order to protect their oil interest?
Truth be told, the Iraqis probably helped Iran down our drone. They hate us when we are there and they hate each other when we’re gone.
Remember the bullcrap. ‘being welcomed with flowers’, ‘oil is going to pay to it’, ‘mushroom clouds were about to appear’, ‘everyone knew they had WMD’, ‘it was doable’. It had all the trappings of today’s Iran stampede.
That will come later.
We celebrated the end of the Vietnam War in January 1973, and left in the helicopters in April of 1975.
Their...¨jest will savour but of shallow wit,
When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.¨ —Henry V
“When the crap hits the fan in Iraq, the MSM will be blacking out all the bad news lest it reflect poorly on Dear Leader.”
That’s already been going on for 3 years.
Big Media abandoned their almighty American casualty count and report American military dead as “NATO soldiers”.
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