Obama salutes promised end of US combat in Iraq
 

ATLANTA – Nearing a milestone in the long and divisive Iraq war, President Barack Obama on Monday hailed this month's planned withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops — "as promised and on schedule" — as a major success despite deep doubts about the Iraqis' ability to police and govern their country.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama


https://gfy.com/image.php?u=30699&dateline=1280114743

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cant wait to see the gfy mini limbaughs come in and try to spin this one...

so did obama keep word?



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No he is late. Lets see if it really happens. I hope it does.

Just get our guys home ..... who cares about the rest.


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I'm waiting to see what Glenn Beck has to say about this important event before I make my official statement.

"A transitional force of 50,000 troops will remain to train Iraqi security forces, conduct counterterrorism operations and provide security for ongoing U.S. civilian efforts. Under an agreement negotiated in 2008 with the Iraqis, all American troops are to be gone from Iraq by the end of next year. "

That's the end of 2011. Not the end of this month.

Ummm... yeah I'd say he's pretty late and him bringing the troops home has nothing to do with him pushing for it and everything to do with the contract signed by Bush back in 2007...

I see, Bush is the true hero here. Thank you Bush !

That's not what I said at all douche bag... I'm tired of people on this forum putting words into other peoples' mouths...

Read it again ...where in there did I say anywhere that I even remotely liked Bush as a person or a president or that he was some kind of savior?

Now go fuck yourself.

I couldn't agree more, and nothing else matters.....................:2 cents:

The plan is for us to never NOT have troops there. They will just call them something other than combat troops.

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding sir. Have an exceptional afternoon.

Spin on words for the idiots, it's an election year, read AMP's post.
Don't celebrate till all the troops are coming home

I would think that it's a step in the right direction, but hardly makes up for the added troops he sent to Afghanistan, I wonder how many of the Iraq troops will get sent there?

It's called SPIN
They need to just bring home all the troops from that place

Bush was also the guy who headed up that multi-trillion dollar stimulus package, but everyone lately seems to think Obama was behind it. They never want to give Bush credit.

Hey shit for brains, only two people have permission to use that photo, and last I checked , you're not on that list

It's been said many times here..We still have troops and bases in Japan,Germany and Korea. We will have bases and troops in Iraq for generations to come.

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no they only want to blame obama for the whole financial mess....





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the troops are never coming home.. they will continue to get shifted around..

we will put more troops in pakistan and will also probably go to war with iran in the next 5 years..

i just think the whole two sided fighting is always good for a chuckle...




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I am so sorry, GED dropout. I found it here while googling word "idiot".

http://www.gfy.com/image.php?u=30699...ine=1280114743

Obama lies to everyones face and people eat it up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10839342

:Oh crap

It's funny how quickly people forget, Iraq was everyone's problem, not the fight in Afghanistan. Suddenly people are saying don't fight terrorism anywhere.

He did say advisors and not combatants. Don't forget guy is a lawyer

You can not fight a tactic or ideology.

You don't read well do you?

Where is the lie moron? The combat troops ARE pulling out. Using YOUR logic we are still "fighting" in Korea, Japan and Germany because we have troops there.

Lets not forget that we are fighting the war in Afghanistan for womens right now.

If your country had US troops on each side of your country like Iran does, would you be inclined to listen to the US?
It's a fucking mess over there and they need to just pull out, unless we can get oil or lithium, it's not worth just getting shot at, our troops can do that in Arizona on the border

What a fucking moron, you don't need google, just look in a mirror
GED dropout, you said you're a college grad? What? Are you running for congress now?

QFT

They renamed the troops, nothing more, nothing less.

So changing the name to "COMBAT TROOPS" and calling good is OK with you? WTF, I thought you were smarter than that?
Korea, Japan and Germany the TROOPS aren't getting shot at

Well for one, he said Aug 31st this year. Second during his campaign he said we would be out in 18 months. So thats lie number one.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...q-troops_N.htm

He also has a 18 month plan for Afghanistan.
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...944599,00.html

Ha,
Lets see how many Americans are killed monthly AFTER the combat troops are gone!

ALL TROOPS weather they are Labled Combat, Cupport, What ever need to come home, and not sent out to Afgan. We have way to many problems here to be worried about other places, no matter who started the war for what reasons, or promises made.
Bring our guys home, take care of America!

right on.

mission accomplished.

I agree completely

What mission was that again? :1orglaugh

WMDs? The establishment of a nice cozy little puppet government? Winning over the indigenous peoples? Burning billions of taxpayer $$? Rooting out evil from the nomad goat herders? "Defeating terrorism"?

what a complete waste everything connected to Iraq has been. :disgust

Spin, spin, spin. Spin around, spin around.

All Obama's fault.

I like when people miss a point just to focus on one word. Brings so much to the conversation. Iraq in hindsight was completely pointless and sunk the US into another depression. Afghanistan you can argue for or against that war but there was at least some measure of reason to the fight.

too throw a whole country against the wall and smash it to show the world who's boss.

mission accomplished.

now on to afghanistan.

50,000 troops will remain and the rest is being farmed out to private military companies.

That's better than nothing. Bring the boys home.

So says the fresh propaganda...

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/au...-808092808.jpg

no, its not...

do you know how much a govt contractor makes vs a soldier...

i say kick out the contractors and let the troops stay..

the last i heard, we still have an all volunteer military...

when people sign up for service they know there is a chance they will go to war..

even if the war is a total mistake, i am not down for getting my tax dollars spent for over priced security guards...


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Really? How many 9/11 terrorist came from Afghanistan?

I don't think I'm missing the point, I think you are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...080100999.html

Looks like he is fighting a tactic. We can not even rid LA of gang violence yet somehow we are going to be able to change a whole political and religious culture of the entire region and Obama thinks that is a modest goal....

So what are the steps to make sure that we stop "Afghanistan from returning to being a terrorist haven"?

We'll never leave Iraq. We are still in Germany, still in Japan, and still in South Korea. We'll be in Iraq for the next fifty years. Same with Afghanistan.

I just read through all of this, and it is my belief that this girl will be up on BoobieMovies.com by tomorrow or Wednesday...

http://www.BoobieMovies.com/Previews...tasia_n_01.wmv

You are correct. Of course, we also have a large number of volunteers that have never picked up a newspaper so apparently were unaware that they might get called into a war zone.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your uneducated souls"...

that should be the new motto of the armed forces...







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:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup Exactly. Bring them home now. End the war in Afghanistan too, unless the US wants to be the first country to remap a region based on cultural allegiances and embark on cultural modification :party-smi

I thought thats how it was.