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2009-02-27 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2009-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Ah, yes. The late Friday afternoon press release. Always a sign that skullduggery is afoot.

My guess: All the combat troops are coming home. Hooray! Obama has single-handedly ended the War In Iraq. P.S. All troops currently in theatre are reclassifed as support elements and will stay for another couple years.

Posted by SteveS 2009-02-27 00:46|| 2009-02-27 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 how about getting those troops that have had back to back tours of duty some stop-loss compensation? now thats change i could believe in. The pols would sooner concern themselves with the PR implications of Gitmo, than with the welfare of soldiers.
politicians say they love our troops, pure phoney baloney. the egomanical ones whove never actually been enlisted, wouldnt be so egotistical if they had.

Posted by GinzaNoodleGirl35 2009-02-27 01:07|| 2009-02-27 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 ...capture and kill bin Laden...

Both? Really?

Posted by Parabellum 2009-02-27 08:57|| 2009-02-27 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "P.S. All troops currently in theatre are reclassifed as support elements and will stay for another ~~couple years~~" decades. There fixed, with permanent troop rotations like another South Korea, with its force of about 35,000 US Troops. Just a guess.

Posted by Haveanoodle55 2009-02-27 09:06|| 2009-02-27 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 how about getting those troops that have had back to back tours of duty some stop-loss compensation? now thats change i could believe in

Coming to a theater near you in... due time (just before the next election).

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-27 09:36|| 2009-02-27 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 What I have heard so far is that Obama intends to remove the bulk of the troops on a fixed timetable that essentially matches both the Iraqi demands and the Bush estimates from last summer/fall, and includes the caveat that the current path of progress continues. There's no change.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-02-27 09:53|| 2009-02-27 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 All troops currently in theatre are reclassifed as support elements and will stay for another couple years

Got it in the 1st try, SteveS!

My ACR is going over(again)in the near future as a "Convoy Security Company".

actual quote from a moonbat aquaintance follows:
Whiny moonbat/
But I thot The Iraquians were at peace?
/Whiny moonbat

Posted by N guard 2009-02-27 09:57|| 2009-02-27 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 CNN > POTUS OBAMA has just announced before US Marines that the US COMBAT MISSION IN IRAQ will effec end next August 31, 2010 wid the planned departure of approxi 100,000 US troops from Iraq, leaving behind another 50,000 to advise and train Iraqi forces.

WITH THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, BASICALLY ALL RADICAL ISLAM NEEDS IS TO CONDUCT LIMITED-SCALE LOCAL ACTINS WHILE WAITING FOR IRAN, ETC. TO PC DEV AND INCREASE ITS NUCLEAR ARSENAL. WIth the US -World economy in alleged pervasive "recession" [or "Great Depression II"], and repor worsening, Radical islam can prob wage that the remaining 50,000 US troops in Iraq will decline even further over time.

ITS WHAT HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI "DIVINE APPEARANCES" ARE MADE FOR.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-27 17:54|| 2009-02-27 17:54|| Front Page Top

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