Obama to Say U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq Will End Aug. 31, 2010 »
Posted By STONERS 10 months ago in Political NewsPresident Barack Obama will announce today that most U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, though thousands will remain behind to support Iraqi forces, two administration officials said.
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not2needy10 months ago
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He is a man of action, AND a man of his word! That's important to me, he started doing everything he promised he would do immediately and has kept the public aware of almost every moment of his day. He's held himself accountable to us, and he holds himself accountable to his wife and children, as well as himself. A true man of character, and so out of character of what we have been used to!
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Spadecaller10 months ago
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I am pleased with President Obama and his efforts; however I am reluctant to applaud a plan that leaves 50,000 troops for three years longer than he announced during his campaigning. With that many troops left in Iraq, their role will be more than "peace" keeping and I must suggest that this could easily become a formula that could easily lead to hostility and another escalation. I would hope I am wrong. Unfortunately, history has proven that when occupying a foreign country with a substantial military force, most often it becomes a source for further conflict and abuse. And I do not think that it is wise to keep Gates in charge. The suspect that the amount of bias feedback that Obama will get from him and military intelligence may jeopardize our ultimate goal of leaving Iraq altogether. Too many powerful entities in the military industrial complex have much to lose by leaving; their tentacles reach far and wide from Iraq to Washington.
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STONERS10 months ago
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Well said Spadecaller, I hate to agree and I'm also afraid you may be right, hope not but like you said ""Unfortunately, history has proven that when occupying a foreign country with a substantial military force, most often it becomes a source for further conflict and abuse.""
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Natureboy10 months ago
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"I am pleased with President Obama and his efforts; however I am reluctant to applaud a plan that leaves 50,000 troops for three years longer than he announced during his campaigning."
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Exactly, Spade. That's not a withdrawal plan, it's an IQ test, and most liberals are flunking it. All Obama is proposing is to draw down the occupation force in Iraq while increasing the troop strength and escalating the conflict in Afghanistan.
This is just the next step in America's game of empire. Iraq is just the beachhead, and that's how it was planned from the git. You don't build bases of the size we built in Iraq if you plan on leaving any time soon.
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Spadecaller10 months ago
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I am pleased with President Obama and his efforts; however I am reluctant to applaud a plan that leaves 50,000 troops for three years longer than he announced during his campaigning. With that many troops left in Iraq, their role will be more than "peace" keeping and I must suggest that this could easily become a formula that could easily lead to hostility and another escalation.
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RedRiverJ10 months ago
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I want them home too, I just hope the timing is correct.
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Some Democrats are not happy about this.
Washington Post Article
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/...
FTA-Initial reports suggest that the administration plans to leave as many as 50,000 support troops behind to provide training and perform some security functions after the bulk of the force departs Iraq. That's too many for the taste of congressional Democratic leaders.
In my opinion General Pataurus is the expert here and I feel Obama should rely on his judgement. -
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orndorffter10 months ago
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I'll stand beside the President, he has his reasons he talked to all those people so I feel he well do the right thing, I'am very prod of our president at last maybe not all, but our men and women are comeing home. Very good story STONER, but they aways are.
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jordan1110 months ago
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How about them?
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Do we need to get down to the business of breaking up terrorist cells, or not? Do we need to go to the heart of those terrorists, or not? Do we let them take control of Pakistan with their nukes, or not? Do we let them once again rule Afghanistan, or not? You got any answers?
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jimdoze10 months ago
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Iran is patiently waiting to create mischief in furtherance of their goals. Thank goodness the president has a national security advisor who appears to have a modicum of strategic wisdom.
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The troops are being drawn down not because of failure, but because of success. If the Iranians jump the gun before August 2010, you can bet the drawdown will not continue. Hopefully, the three competing factions in Iraq will, in the meantime, take full measure and motivation from knowledge of what the Iranians and the Turks will do to them if they don't collectively build permanent and defensible institutions before we are gone. -
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tadair91910 months ago
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funny that the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan was titled "The War on Terrorism." But now that we are only leaving Iraq (and not Afghanistan), then the title has changed to the "War in Iraq" and the "War in Afghanistan," where we can justify killing innocent people with impunity.
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The left rightfully complained about the endless war on terror, but (for reasons that remain a mystery) glee mercifully at the announcement of changing the terrain.
I wonder how many in the left have noticed that Obama used the same justification to bomb Pakistan in the last few weeks, that Bush used to bomb Iraq.
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lloydm6510 months ago
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You know that every US soldier who dies in Iraq from this day forward is an Obama casualty.The very same way Nixon was blamed when he was elected during Kennedy-Johnson war.I heard Obama say early on in his campaign he would shut down the war starting on day one.Day one has come,and gone.Looks like several hundred more day ones are in store for the troops.This dude has become a back tracker.Every he said or promised has not happened.I think this great gift is being unwraped,and unwraped,and so far just more wraping.The promise of a gift was was just like the gift itself,an empty promise.
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hypergate9 months, 4 weeks ago
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Hi frind, good news.
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