Last Combat Troops Leave Iraq!

[Bob]

how many countries, other the the usa, invade and occupy other countries?

 

[Lynnie]

I think many, Bob. We aren't occupiers......although, I know many Americans believe we are.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Understood. But hasn't our mission there for a very long time to support/train Iraqis and protect US citizens? Which "combat" operations have ceased compared to six months ago.

I thought I heard Rachel Maddow say last night that as of Sept 1, the state department is taking over responsibility from the DOD. If this is true then I can better wrap my brain around something changing other than reducing the numbers of troops.

Maybe I am being too cynical.
:idontno:

Thx for setting me straight on the numbers, Shopper.

Maybe so, but frankly, a little cynicism is not out of order IMO considering all that has happened in the last seven years. I think we have been drawing down combat troops for a few months; this was just the last of them.

 

[scooterbug44]

how many countries, other the the usa, invade and occupy other countries?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm#Armenia, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, the Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

They also had troops there.

 

[Bob]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm#Armenia, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, the Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

They also had troops there.

you mean the coalition of the unwilling? how about china and tibet?? i guess that's like us invading texas.

 

[beachFool]

Armenia, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, the Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

They also had troops there.

Those 53 Lithuanians were a big help, I bet.

 

[ugabuga]

mission accomplished?!?

 

[futurebeachbum]

Speaking as someone who had a family member in Iraq, we should never have gone in the first place. I'll be amazed if the country we know as Iraq even exists in 10 years.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Speaking as someone who had a family member in Iraq, we should never have gone in the first place. I'll be amazed if the country we know as Iraq even exists in 10 years.

I agree that the war was a huge mistake, based on deliberate lies. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the men and women in uniform for their service--but, they should never have been sent to invade a country that had done us no harm. I pray that it never happens again and I am happy that so many returned safely; at the same time, my heart breaks for those families who can not celebrate a homecoming for their loved ones. Until one has stood in an airport hangar and watched young troops walk bravely to a plane loaded with equipment and weapons...and then spent the next weeks or months or years praying that the plane will bring them back again alive, until you've done that, you can not really appreciate what a person who has done that is going through...nor, can you fully appreciate the meaning of war. It is bad enough when it is a war to defend our country against an enemy, it is worse when it is a war that did not need to happen.
Senator Bob Graham was the chair of the Intelligence Committee and one of the few senators to vote against the war. Here are his comments on the end of the combat from last night:http://www.clicker.com/tv/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/As-war-winds-down-a-look-back-1055176/. I think he sums it up pretty well.

 

[Bob]

let's see now, we have 52k troops left in iraq. i wonder how long they will stay there, and what the annual price tag for their never ending deployment will be? i'm sure conservative voices will bemoan the wasteful spending there.