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US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year
mayberry42 writes with news that President Obama has announced an end to the U.S. military engagement in Iraq. All U.S. soldiers will leave Iraq by the end of the year.
"Mr. Obama said that as of Jan. 1, 2012, the United States and Iraq would begin 'a normal relationship between two sovereign nations, and equal partnership based on mutual interest and mutual respect.' In a videoconference on Friday morning with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Obama told him of the administration’s decision, which grows out of an inability of the United States and Iraq to come to an agreement on leaving a few thousand military trainers in the country. The United States had earlier agreed to exit Iraq by the end of the year and leave 3,000 to 5,000 troops in Iraq as trainers, with some members of Congress advocating the retention of a reduced fighting force as well. But Pentagon lawyers insisted that the Iraqi Parliament grant immunity from legal prosecution to the troops if they were to remain."
Sure we'll stay, as long as you give us the right to rape, pillage and murder with no consequences. Oh, you've decided it's time for us to go home? Well, we know it's gonna be a rough time, but of course we'll honor your wishes. OK, see you next decade!
(takes off and buries a couple WMDs in the desert so they can be "found" again when needed, should have done that last time)
If all they wanted was to go into a miserable situation and help people, they could have just spent their time working in a homeless shelter in any of the ghettos in america's largest cities. Nope, these guys and gals went to Iraq because they felt good about holding a gun in their hands and shooting "bad guys." There is nothing honorable about that.
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Riiiight, it don't have a thing to do with all that oil, and the shitload of minerals found under Afghanistan, perish the thought! Nope just helping brown people because inside every brown person is an American just waiting to get out....it seems like I've heard that before somewhere.
Oh and after the year is up they won't be "troops" they'll be advisers! yeah, that's the ticket!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I'd like to say "Fuck you" to the troops. If you had exercised your conscience instead of blind patriotism we could have avoided wasting a trillion dollars and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
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