[Sgt_Schultze]

It sure looks that way. The site accounts for deployments to Iraq in addition to those from other areas - so it would seem that those troops which might be stationed in Germany or Japan and have been sent to Iraq have been accounted for in the Iraq total.

Those troops would better serve this country as a wall against the waves of terrorists who must be sneaking across our southern border. But I hate it when I have to endure calls for an exit strategy from nincompoops and socialists. It is never thrown back in their faces that we are still in position 50 years after the end of their last really big war.

[Just A Nobody]

IIRC, there was talk a while back about closing the base in Germany. I have not seen anything more about that, have you? It was said that the removal of our base would devastate Germany's already fledging economy.

But I hate it when I have to endure calls for an exit strategy from nincompoops and socialists.
I feel the same way!!

It is never thrown back in their faces that we are still in position 50 years after the end of their last really big war.
Oh, it is, but one must be at the right place, at the right time, in the right environment to hear the fleeting comment, before it is deeply buried in anti-war rhetoric.