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Iraq
What Does Withthrawal of US Troops Mean?
2010-08-20
The departure of the last combat brigade from Iraq is full of symbolic weight.

1. President Obama, to his credit, dropped the nonsense from his candidacy about promising withdrawal by March 2008 and stuck to the Bush-Petraeus plan.

It means US troops emerge from Iraq as victors, having completed an operation that should have been completed in 1991.

Make sure you tell liberals we can place one in the "W" column. They'll hate that.
Posted by:Beavis

#5  ION WMF > "WEN WEI PO" HONG KONG MEDIA: US-ALLIED REGIONAL MILEXS [ROK = South KOrea, JAPAN, Vietnam] IN THE CHINA SEAS MAY BE A DIVERSION FOR IRAN ATTACK IN ONE YEAR [Summer 2011]???

* CHINESE MILUITARY FORUM > US, JAPAN PLAN NAVAL EXERCISES AT DAOYUS IN DECEMBER | JAPAN, US PLAN NAVAL DRILL IN DISPUTED ISLETS.

* WMF > US-JAPAN PLAN DECEMBER JOINT MILITARY DRILLS IN DAOYUS [Kapan = Senkaku Islands], + SW ISLANDS FROM OKINAWA TO KAGOSHIMA NEAR TAIWAN. PREMISE OF AREA MILEXS IS MILITARY-LED "RECOVERY OF ISLANDS FROM CHINA/CPLA".

* WMF > JAPANESE MEDIAS: US-JAPAN MILITARY DRILL IN DAOTUS + JAPAN'S SW ISLANDS IS INTENDED TO TO ILLUSTRATE TOKYO'S DESIRE TO EXPAND JAPAN'S
"SPHERE OF INFLUENCE" VIA ECONOMIC TRADE, IMPROVED JSDF FORCES + CAPABILITIES, AND DEV + PROCUREMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. JAPAN'S DESIRE FOR EXPANDED NATIONAL COOPERATION WID CHINA + MAINLAND ASIA.

* WMF > POTUS OBAMA'S NEW NSS STRATEGY CALLS FOR THE US TO COUNTER RISING CHINA'S "STRING OF PEARLS" ISLANDS STRATEGY WID ITS OWN "CHAINS" OR SPHERES OF US-CONTROLLED ISLANDS + REGIONAL ALLIES. US MILBASES ON OKINAWA AND GUAM ISLAND AS THE CENTRAL "AXIS OF MOVEMENT/MANEUVER" BETWEEN US EASTPAC + WEST COASTS, + US ALLIES IN EAST-SOUTH ASIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-20 21:35  

#4  Don't fergit NETTERS > POTUS BAMMER "BIRTH CERTIFICATE" + "OBAMUSLIM" Controversies = WATERGATE-LITE = 1975 "FALL OF SAIGON" II = US CAN'T ANDOR WON'T BE ABLE TO UNILATER DEFEND ITS ALLY(S) CONTRARY TO PRE-EXISTING AGREEMENT OR OBLIGATION, etc. as due to PC/PDENIABLE
"EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES".

D *** NG IT, America = Amerika, the OWG MIghty USSA = OWG Weak Global SSR, IS ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY UNDENIABLY CATEGORICALLY.......@ETC.
"ATTACKATREATING", + DON"T YOUSE ever Ever EVER E-V-E-R EEEEEEEVVVVVVEEEEERRRRRRR EVAR! FORGET WHAT WE NEVER TOLD YOU!

So there.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-20 19:14  

#3  There's still going to be 56,000 troops in Iraq.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-08-20 18:25  

#2  It means Iraq becomes an Iranian province. Next question.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-08-20 01:37  

#1  It means the Taliban will lie their asses off screaming "WE WON, WE DEFEATED THE AMERICANS AND SENT THEM RUNNING" and other similar LIES.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-08-20 01:35  

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