Full Iraq War pull out by end of year 2011

[caseagainstfaith]

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, a White House official said on Friday, after failing to reach a deal with the Iraqi government that would have left a significant force of military trainers in the country.

"Today the president will announce that we will fulfill our commitment and complete the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year. This will allow us to say definitively that the Iraq war is over," the official said after Obama spoke via video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

source - www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-iraq-usa-obama-idUSTRE79K4LR20111021?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Wow, well 1 down 1 more to go. This is awesome news though!

[worlder]

Oct 21, 2011 11:57:11 GMT -5 caseagainstfaith said:

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, a White House official said on Friday, after failing to reach a deal with the Iraqi government that would have left a significant force of military trainers in the country.

"Today the president will announce that we will fulfill our commitment and complete the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year. This will allow us to say definitively that the Iraq war is over," the official said after Obama spoke via video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

source - www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-iraq-usa-obama-idUSTRE79K4LR20111021?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Wow, well 1 down 1 more to go. This is awesome news though!

Hey! I thought we were finished with that place months ago.

[Old Viking]

We won! We won! Didn't we?

[caseagainstfaith]

Oct 21, 2011 14:49:33 GMT -5 Old Viking said:

We won! We won! Didn't we?

I dunno did we win Vietnam too? I would say the 2 wars are on almost equal footing.

[m52nickerson]

Oct 21, 2011 15:22:48 GMT -5 caseagainstfaith said:

I dunno did we win Vietnam too? I would say the 2 wars are on almost equal footing.

How do you figure that?

[caseagainstfaith]

Oct 21, 2011 15:25:50 GMT -5 m52nickerson said:

Oct 21, 2011 15:22:48 GMT -5 caseagainstfaith said:

I dunno did we win Vietnam too? I would say the 2 wars are on almost equal footing.

How do you figure that?

see - www.progress.org/2004/fpif48.htm

[ltfred]

Oct 21, 2011 15:22:48 GMT -5 caseagainstfaith said:

Oct 21, 2011 14:49:33 GMT -5 Old Viking said:

We won! We won! Didn't we?

I dunno did we win Vietnam too? I would say the 2 wars are on almost equal footing.

Vietnam was quite a bit more bloody, but Iraq was less honest and more corrupt.

[Her3tiK]

We're all missing the important question here.

Who's next? Which group of brown people needs liberation now?

[m52nickerson]

Vietnam also had the US leaving and the Saigon getting taken by the North.

Iraq does have a new government and it is not controlled by those we would consider the enemy.

[ltfred]

Oct 21, 2011 15:41:40 GMT -5 m52nickerson said:

Vietnam also had the US leaving and the Saigon getting taken by the North.

Iraq does have a new government and it is not controlled by those we would consider the enemy.

A shaky, undemocratic government that might not last a month. And it only cost 3 trillion dollars and a million Iraqi lives.

To be honest, who knows what will happen in Iraq now? I don't. I don't think anyone does. All we can be sure is that Iraqis want the US to piss off and let them work it out alone.

[m52nickerson]

Oct 21, 2011 15:50:18 GMT -5 ltfred said:

A shaky, undemocratic government that might not last a month. And it only cost 3 trillion dollars and a million Iraqi lives.

To be honest, who knows what will happen in Iraq now? I don't. I don't think anyone does. All we can be sure is that Iraqis want the US to piss off and let them work it out alone.

Well let's hope it works out well.

[Damen]

I find it rather telling that a condition of the USA staying at the Iraq government's request was immunity. Iraq didn't give the military immunity, so we're leaving.

[ltfred]

Oct 21, 2011 15:53:28 GMT -5 m52nickerson said:

Oct 21, 2011 15:50:18 GMT -5 ltfred said:

A shaky, undemocratic government that might not last a month. And it only cost 3 trillion dollars and a million Iraqi lives.

To be honest, who knows what will happen in Iraq now? I don't. I don't think anyone does. All we can be sure is that Iraqis want the US to piss off and let them work it out alone.

Well let's hope it works out well.

It already hasn't.

[brendanrizzo]

While I'm glad that no more American soldiers' lives will be in danger (not counting the ones stationed in Afghanistan, of course), it really makes no difference. We'd been pulling out for months; by this point their presence is pretty negligible. And you all know my opinion on wartorn countries... I doubt they're gonna be able to work anything out now. Just saying.

[Jodie]

I was going to make a joke about a taking a very long time to pull out but...