Iraq: U.S. Sought Troop Presence To 2015 »
Posted By TimALoftis 10 months, 1 week ago in NewsBAGHDAD - The United States asked Iraq for permission to keep its troops there to 2015, but U.S. and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authorization to 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said. "It was a U.S. proposal for the date which is 2015, and an Iraqi one which is 2010, then we agreed to make it 2011.
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jordan1110 months, 1 week ago
Oh I see, the 'compromise' makes it look like the Iraqi's are calling the shots, & three more years looks good when compared to seven more years, & sort of makes you forget the cost of three more years not to mention asking for the rationale. Sort of like running gasoline up to over $4.00 a gallon, getting everyone upset, then dropping it juuuuust enough to make it look palatable in comparison, even though it's double 8 years ago. Quite the little game players, these CONS.
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Charlson10 months, 1 week ago
Is there a silver lining on body bags? And who's pockets is the silver in?
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Goppy10 months, 1 week ago
You know, the Iraq conflict is a central cog in the Military Industrial Complex' plan.
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They were DESPERATE to forego the so called PEACE DIVIDEND that Reagan touted as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union. There was a lot of pressure coming to bear upon them to explain why the Peace Dividend was not materializing.
George W. Bush, **** Cheney, and Donnie Rumsfeld ... Neo-Cons all ... devoted themselves to protecting this vast money sucking machine.
The Republican party has sadly evolved to be the party that cares little about our security .... or our soldiers .... but only spending an ever increasing quota of our tax dollars.
Just think ... we spend more on the Military than ALL OTHER NATIONS OF THE WORLD COMBINED!!!!
And that doesn't even count the Iraq and Afghanistan war!-
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CHAM10 months, 1 week ago
You got it Goppy> And wasn't this war to liberate the Iraqi's? I think we've liberated more than a million of them-forever. And there's those four million who have left the country.
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No telling how many have been injured permanently. But not to fear the DU will keep getting them for the next 1/2 billion years.
And don't I remember der Bush saying all they have to do is tell us to leave and we'll get out? The was two or three years ago. I do believe they've asked us several times since then. We're still there.
And there's that little matter of Oil. We haven't got control of all of it yet. As Bush said a couple of years ago. We can't go and leave all that oil to the terrorists. I'm not sure he meant Iraqi's or some others. Hey, he might not even know.
I heard McCain was looking for Iraq - somewhere up there between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Maybe he thought it was between Kashmir and China?
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MeanMotherUSA10 months, 1 week ago
8-27-08...Over 30 Countries Now Have Oil Packs $$ With IRAQ,i.e. US.Gov (El Presidente Bushsh*t) Is Simply Protecting (Covering) Their As*es...
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trez_5010 months, 1 week ago
I hear you!
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Lot of folks feel the same frustration.
There was a huge protest in Denver. Thousands protested the war outside the Democratic National Convention Wednesday. Chanting slogans... demanding U.S. troops out of Iraq.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26429975/
"Thousands stage anti-war protest at convention"
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Lurch10 months, 1 week ago
The Iraqis never wanted us there to begin with, have wanted us out for years, and are kicking AQ`s arse just as badly in places where the surge did not happen as where it did happen.
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The only thing the surge did was get more GIs killed and wounded while costing us more. The Awakening has taken care of AQ where there was no surge, with no GI deaths. -
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Tcaros10 months, 1 week ago
Once we get that Bush bstard out of the White House we'll get those troops home. It may take several months, but then we can start the long road of recovery.
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slate10 months, 1 week ago
Iraq has the right to decide when they will be able to take over IMO. It would be nice if they said they were ready now. I also hope they will help pay the large costs in money that has been spent in the process,
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rightfromwrong10 months, 1 week ago
U will find that when they pull out, they have left behind at least 50,000 troops like in Saudi Arabia. Don't forget that they went their for the oil so the 150,000 Blackwater mercenaries will still be there which of course will cost another 20B/yr. All funneling up to our buddy Cheney
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heresusie10 months, 1 week ago
That's long time. I'd like to see what will be after the end of election.
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vor10 months, 1 week ago
By the neocon belief we would never leave. Giving a date of 2015 is a canard to attempt an open ended presence. If McCain wins in November is he really going to agree to close the "permanent" bases we built way back at the beginning of the invasion? Not necessarily McCain but his neocon advisors? That would not fit their global strategy at all. And neocons don't change, don't compromise. The military advances we have made in Iraq came despite these people not because of them (give Petraeus real credit here). If they had their way we never would have talked to the Sunni Tribal leaders or indirectly to the Shia Militias. They call that "appeasement". All the more reson change must come to the White House.
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