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'Welcome home,' Obama tells troops from Iraq

Macamus Prime

Macamus Prime

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This is a lie. Obama brought them home long ago (18 months after taking office) just like he promised.

However, I will consider it done when we no longer have US troops fighting in Iraq. Time will tell if the ones he left behind are still doing combat patrols like they are now.
 
cybrsage said:
This is a lie. Obama brought them home long ago (18 months after taking office) just like he promised.

However, I will consider it done when we no longer have US troops fighting in Iraq. Time will tell if the ones he left behind are still doing combat patrols like they are now.
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your statement contradicts itself. not sure if serious...
 
When the troops are only providing embassy security, such as in Russia or Saudi Arabia.
Any other support to the Iraq security forces is combat under another name.
 
So when are we going to bring all the boys home?

Big props to anyone that posts that image showing all the us bases in the middle east. I would but im on my mobile.

Also how many soldiers came home as a result of leaving iraq? And how many contractor mercenaries are we replacing them with to guard the new super embassy?
 
hailing their service to help a people they didn't know as an example of what makes America great.
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*sigh*...

It's sad that people actually buy this.


Spikesoldier said:
So when are we going to bring all the boys home?

/QUOTE]

They will probably find themselves in rotation for Afghanistan, Syria, or Iran soon enough. This is tantamount to GWB doing the whole mission accomplished thing on the aircraft carrier.
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EagleKeeper said:
When the troops are only providing embassy security, such as in Russia or Saudi Arabia.
Any other support to the Iraq security forces is combat under another name.
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I don't think advising them, training them, or supplying intelligence is "combat." Combat is combat. If they go on a mission and we help them by firing a single shot, then yes, it's combat. The only shots we should be firing are in protection of our own embassy if or when it is attacked. If we're firing shots in other situations, then we're still in combat.
 
OBL had very little to nothing to do with Iraq. This is a well touted left wing talking point...shouted from the rooftops in every city.
 
Yawn.

I think it is funny how he has taken longer than the BOOOSH time table and he is acting like he is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
 
Patranus said:
Yawn.

I think it is funny how he has taken longer than the BOOOSH time table and he is acting like he is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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The funny thing is I agree with this, but then again, the tendency is for people to believe that a POTUS takes ownership of everything - good and bad - that happens on his watch, regardless of what happened before. I think Obama is taking too much blame for a recession that he inherited, which was worse than just about anyone had predicted. Likewise, he probably gets more credit for the Iraq withdrawal than he deserves. As a person of the left, I'm quite happy with him getting no credit for Iraq and no blame for the recession. If I was a conservative, however, I wouldn't take that bargain.
 
This quote from Obama
That's part of what makes us special as Americans. Unlike the empires of old, we did so not for territory or for resources. We do it because it's right.
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So we have to tell the many thousands of dead men and women that they didn't die defending this country or defending our freedom, not defending the safety of their families or their fellow American's families. They died because we had to do what was right... in IRAQ?

This sort of foreign policy is acceptable in America? Americans accept this?
 
momeNt said:
This sort of foreign policy is acceptable in America? Americans accept this?
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And how!

They went as far as renaming French Fries as Freedom Fries, because France wasn't supportive of our invasion of Iraq!

Fries dude. FRIES.

Some of these "good'ole boys" were so God damn blind with pride and drunk with the prospect of contractor money they even swept over the name of french fries.

Really, fries!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
 
cybrsage said:
How many Americans died fighting in Europe in WW1?
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Is that designed as a retort to my statement?

Consider the circumstances surrounding WW1 and Iraq. Consider also public sentiment towards each situation.

To answer your question, ~115k dead, and 200k wounded.
 
Let me just say this,

I was in that hangar when he gave that speech on pope air force base (apart of fort bragg) and while I don't agree personally with his views (collectively). He is still my commander in chief and it was a honor to see and watch him speak.

I got home from Iraq last year and I said it before and ill say it again, ill go back if told. it was a great experience.
 
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Slufa111 said:
Let me just say this,

I was in that hangar when he gave that speech on pope air force base (apart of fort bragg) and while I don't agree personally with his views (collectively). He is still my commander in chief and it was a honor to see and watch him speak.

I got home from Iraq last year and I said it before and ill say it again, ill go back if told. it was a great experience.
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Best wishes and welcome back!
 
woolfe9999 said:
I don't think advising them, training them, or supplying intelligence is "combat." Combat is combat. If they go on a mission and we help them by firing a single shot, then yes, it's combat. The only shots we should be firing are in protection of our own embassy if or when it is attacked. If we're firing shots in other situations, then we're still in combat.
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Here is the washington way of putting it:

We as a military are no longer in a combat role in Iraq; meaning that we aren't out looking for a fight. We are or shall I say, were, in a Advise and Assist role which means we are at the disposal of the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army Security Forces.

If we are engaged, that is self-defense.
 
Slufa111 said:
Let me just say this,

I was in that hangar when he gave that speech on pope air force base (apart of fort bragg) and while I don't agree personally with his views (collectively). He is still my commander in chief and it was a honor to see and watch him speak.

I got home from Iraq last year and I said it before and ill say it again, ill go back if told. it was a great experience.
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I had to tell my fiancee this. obama is CIC of the armed forces, and the GI's showed up because their unit was ordered to have the 'honor' of witnessing this historic address, simply because he's their boss.

btw: find map attached. a few down, many more to go!

1.-us-bases-in-the-middle-east-a.jpg
 
Spikesoldier said:
I had to tell my fiancee this. obama is CIC of the armed forces, and the GI's showed up because their unit was ordered to have the 'honor' of witnessing this historic address, simply because he's their boss.
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Ordered or not, it is what we do as soldiers.
 
airdata said:
*sigh*...

It's sad that people actually buy this.


Spikesoldier said:
So when are we going to bring all the boys home?

/QUOTE]

They will probably find themselves in rotation for Afghanistan, Syria, or Iran soon enough. This is tantamount to GWB doing the whole mission accomplished thing on the aircraft carrier.
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So? Units are given specific missions, and our units have executed those missions damned well indeed. The President saying "mission accomplished" to these troops doesn't mean he agrees with the war or that every single thing that needs to be done has been done. It is simply honoring these troops (and their long-suffering families) for executing their missions.

Kudos to President Obama for doing his duty, honoring these and all the troops' accomplishments rather than ignoring them or sending a general to make this speech. If in the process he is taking credit for an accomplishment to which he gave little help and much opposition, as Wolfe says every President assumes responsibility for everything he inherits, and damned few will credit their predecessor where due.

Slufa111 said:
Let me just say this,

I was in that hangar when he gave that speech on pope air force base (apart of fort bragg) and while I don't agree personally with his views (collectively). He is still my commander in chief and it was a honor to see and watch him speak.

I got home from Iraq last year and I said it before and ill say it again, ill go back if told. it was a great experience.
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Thank you for your sacrifice and service in completing a difficult and largely thankless job in an exemplary manner. Thanks to you and your fellows in arms, over thirty million fellow human beings now enjoy the basic freedoms and liberties we so often take for granted, free from government rape rooms and secret police and summary execution. It's not a perfect country - no conceit of man every is - but you have given them the freedom to make of it what they will. Well done!
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