Enough is enough! Bring'em on home!
This has to be one of the worst weeks ever for Republicans. Gaddafi is killed without spending American soldiers’ lives and hundreds of billions of dollars like it was water. The GOP presidential debates have reached a new low for childish behavior. Occupy Wall St. has returned the political discourse in the country, and the world, back to the real culprit of the Great Recession. No, not Obama, Barney Frank, gay marriage, abortion or any of the other ridiculous distractions the Right has thrown up to protect the real source of our woes: Wall St. and its influence on politics. All that would be bad enough but then this happened:
“I can report that as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,” Obama said. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.
“Over the next two months our troops in Iraq, tens of thousands of them, will pack up their gear, and board convoys for the journey home. The last American soldier will cross the border out of Iraq with their heads held high, proud of their success, and knowing that the American people stand united in our support for our troops. That is how America’s military efforts in Iraq will end… Today I can say that troops in Iraq will definitely be home for the holidays.”
And that’s it. The Iraq War will be over. A few thousand private contractors will remain to aid the Iraqi government in maintaining order but our troops will be coming home at last.
There will be those who will call this “surrendering” or “cutting and running”. Ignore them, those people are fools and war mongers and do not deserve a second of your consideration. If they really gave a good golly goddamn about America, they would have brought the troops home years ago. Obama is doing what’s best for America, not the military-industrial complex.
Promise fulfilled. Mission accomplished. Let the Obama Doctrine reign supreme!
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Bush invaded a broken nation that had nothing to do with 9/11. Obama got stuck with Bush’s costly, idiotic war that created an ally for Iran. The Iraqis are now free to make their own decisions and the U.S would be insane to accomodate their latest decision to deny our troops immunity from being under the control of their laws. Obama made the correct decision in ending this outrageous waste of our resources and the whining Republicans who endorsed this nightmare war or want to keep blowing our resources on it can shove it. I hope they enjoy the consequences but we’re no longer willing to pay for their stupid, costly mistakes.
All you wingnuts pointing out the status of forces agreement conveniently forget that your hero Dubya started this military misadventure in the first place! The worst strategic mistake ever made by our country, and you want to give props to the guy who made it? If you remember, during the last campaign McCain was for PERMANENT bases and accused Obama of wanting to “cut and run”, so no, no props for Dubya, or Republicans, the endless war party.
Shouldn’t you guys be over at teh Blaze having a circle jerk?
Yay, hooray, hallelujah, amen, shanti, salaam, om! This is a very good thing for us, and for Iraq. No model democracy by far, by far better than the chaos of 2004-2006. The threat from Iraq (which only arose in reality a year or more after the invasion) is now gone, far gone. I hope this means a large reduction in the monthly outlay by the military. Direct spending since 3/2003 now stands well above 1 trillion, more in real dollars than all of Vietnam (’65-’75) and Korea (’50-’53) combined (or over 100 billion a year, about 9 billion a month). Think of what we could have done with all that money. Bailed out all the States and kept a couple hundred thou teachers, cops, and others employed and paying taxes, put huge numbers to work while rebuilding crumbling bridges, highways, ports, schools. Shore up New Orleans and it’s people. Bolstered Medicare. Probably the largest part of all of the above
And if we hadn’t wasted all that money and several thousand lives, our deep economic drift may have been just another mild recession, or none at all. There have been serious recessions after every major US war since the Civil War, except for WWII (when we were the only industrial nation not largely blown to bits & exhausted of resources). Lets not do this again till at least the Quad-Centennial (2176), please, and then only the Wii version. . .