Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st

eldavojohn writes "President Barack Obama has announced that on August 31st the United States will cease all combat operations in Iraq, although 50,000 troops will remain until the end of 2011. It's been a long seven-and-a-half years, with no guarantee of this announcement actually signifying the end of violence. Pundits are already speculating on whether or not this withdrawal speech is 'Mission Accomplished 2.' It's possibly the most significant confirmation of and commitment to a withdrawal the world will hear from the United States in Iraq."

Comments

About freakin' time

[Pojut]

We shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Controversy generates ad revenues

[spun]

With which the owners of this site can buy technology, so yeah, it's technology related.

Re:What about Afghanistan

[mistiry]

Can't use nukes? All of a sudden they just won't go off anymore??? Oh, you mean because of international treaties and agreements...Nobody ever breaks those... The fact is that the title of this story is how troops are coming home, but the whole part about Hobama ordering 30,000 troops to Afghanistan is ignored. And that's 30,000 troops on top of those that are already there. Announcing something like this and slipping the "30,000 more are going to Afghanistan" part in when everyone's cheering about the troops coming back from Iraq...typical political maneuvering. What's sad is that he'll go up in popularity because 99% of people won't even know about the troops heading to Afghanistan until next week sometime.

Re:Finally

[afabbro]

If it involves taking people's income to pay for government services, it's socialism. You're just conditioned to it.