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But as we at NPR and others have reported previously, going forward there will still be U.S. combat troops in Iraq and they will sometimes find themselves shooting at the enemy and being shot at. That would quality as combat by most definitions. So how is it possible to report that the last combat troops are leaving Iraq when there will still be combat troops there? Take this "last combat troops" news with a grain of salt. It's semantics.
The departing 4th Stryker Brigade had a specific combat mission, for instance, make contact with the enemy and destroy it. But most of the 50,000 U.S. troops remaining in Iraq will still be trained combat troops. Their ostensible missions will be the training of Iraqis, force protection, counterterrorism etc. If they are attacked, however, rest assured there will be combat. Indeed, insurgents may very well attack remaining U.S. troops to demonstrate that Iraq is far from stable and that progress is elusive.
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There are at least two big reasons the Obama Administration and military are pushing hard the line about the the last combat troops coming out Wednesday. The main one is that President Barack Obama wants to redeem his campaign pledge to withdraw combat troops from Iraq, which he has defined as the bad war, and and to redeploy them to Afghanistan, the good war, in his estimation.
man, it doesn't even matter anymore. it's over.
It matters to the thousands upon thousands of people who lost loved ones.
And it's not "over".
Not with 50,000 still there.
How can it be "over"?
Besides, they're not really coming "home"; most of them are only coming home long enough to prepare for deployment to Afghanistan.
More help in Afghanistan means we'll get work done their faster.
It matters to the thousands upon thousands of people who lost loved ones.
Besides, they're not really coming "home"; most of them are only coming home long enough to prepare for deployment to Afghanistan.
Anyone want to wager how long after we leave their country falls apart again?
:roll: the "civil war" was a creation of the media and an attempted creation of AQI. but you don't have to 'create' something that is inherent.
I would like to happy about this but I cant. Our troops are leaving Iraq but will either be injected into Pakistan or Iran.
I would like to happy about this but I cant. Our troops are leaving Iraq but will either be injected into Pakistan or Iran.
Excuse me. Let's get on with the "inherent" Iraqi civil war then.
What? Why do you say that? Are there plans in that direction?
yeah i'll just go ahead and chalk that up with 'the surge has failed'
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