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  tadair91910 months, 1 week ago

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  i hope somebody throws his shoe at him.

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    ybdogsct10 months, 1 week ago

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    You mean like this?
    
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story...
    "Obama thanked soldiers for their 'extraordinary achievement' in turning Iraq into a fledgling democracy. He then added, to huge applause, that Iraqis need to 'take responsibility for their country.'"
    
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_re_mi_ea...
    "Inside a marble palace, Obama was interrupted repeatedly with cheers from the troops.
    
    'I love you,' someone in the crowd shouted out. 'I love you back,' the commander in chief replied. Scores of troops held digital cameras above their heads, snapping pictures and recording video of a day they would long remember."
    
    GET OVER IT!!! YOU LOST!!!
    
    LOL.

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    Sageparadox10 months, 1 week ago

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    Funny that it wasnt a safe-haven for terrorism until after we got there.

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    hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago

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    Yes Libs, Obama has made far too many compromises with the military imperialism of the bushie zioncons. Time to hold him to his promises to the electorate.
    
    Obama's Nightmare in Iraq
    
    With last week's announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, including an Iraq-like "surge" replete with 4,000 more U.S. troops and a sizable increase in private contractors, President Barack Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he somehow represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign policy.
    
    In the meantime, more reports have emerged that bolster suspicions that Obama's Iraq policy is but a downsized version of Bush's and that a total withdrawal of U.S. forces is not on the horizon.... In the latest episode of Occupation Rebranded, it was revealed that the administration intends to reclassify some combat forces as "advisory and assistance brigades." While Obama's administration is officially shunning the use of the term "global war on terror," the labels du jour, unfortunately, seem to be the biggest changes we will see for some time.
    
    While Obama -- and public attention -- shifted foreign policy focus last week to Afghanistan, lost in the media blitz was another important report that examines how taxpayers will continue to pay for the Iraq occupation for years to come, withdrawal or not. This report, released in March by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, provides a sobering look at Obama's "massive and expensive" Iraq plan, identifying several crucial questions that have yet to be addressed.
    
    ...Among the questions the Obama administration has yet to answer: How to dismantle or hand over the 283 U.S. installations in Iraq (including more than 50 large military bases); What to do with the 160,000-plus private U.S. contractors in Iraq; Who will provide security for the massive -- and likely expanding -- army of diplomats deployed in the country at the monstrous U.S. embassy in Baghdad?

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      hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago

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      ...It is very hard to imagine that the U.S. will simply walk away from large bases it spent years building. So, will they be turned over to Iraq? If so, to whom? What guarantee is there that they would not be used as operating bases for death squads? Will some be destroyed? What about the environmental impact?
      
      ... Despite his much-celebrated troop withdrawal announcement, Obama has said nothing publicly about what he intends to do with the 163,000 "security contractors" deployed in Iraq, whose ranks outnumber U.S. troops. This is most likely because, as the GAO reports, there is no plan...
      
      ... Another important figure included in the report that is anything but humorous -- and rarely talked about -- is the huge number of people imprisoned or detained by the U.S. in Iraq: 15,000. Many of these prisoners are being held without charge or access to due process. Under existing agreements between Iraq and the U.S., they are slated to either be turned over to Iraq's legal system or released.
      
      .... Perhaps the saddest portion of the GAO report relates to what should be done to address the massive suffering in Iraq and what the U.S. responsibility should be for paying for the tremendous devastation of Iraq's civilian infrastructure over the past 20 years.
      
      Before one more cent is spent on bailing out corrupt corporations that destroyed the U.S. economy, Iraqis should have clean drinking water. After all, it was the illegal U.S. wars that took it from them in the first place. And that is not logic based on lies.
      
      http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/03/31/obama39s...

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