Obama said he would have all troops out of Iraq by today

this should be front page news for the rest of the year. any guesses when the troops will actually be fully pulled out?
 
amy31416 said:
But, but, but BUSH started it! It's the evil Republicans! We're helpless in the face of their evil! Obama wants to do the right thing, but there'd be chaos if he pulled out! And, and, he's playing chess and we're too stupid to understand the game.....ARGHMF&&$$^&*I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! FAAAAAAACK! Michelle Obama is the epitome of grace and is Jackie O and Princess Diana all in one beautiful package! Their kids are adorable, OMFG, so cute! Ignore everything else!

P.S. Libertarians suck and are all racists!

P.P.S. Still hire Blackwater mercenaries? YES WE CAN!

(Shit, we're all screwed.)
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Epic post!

Obama refused to promise to have the troops out by 2013 when he was asked that question by Tim Russert. But then he lied and claimed he'd have them out in 16 months. I tried to explain this to my friends who are Obama supporters during the election, but most kept saying "He's promised to have the troops out in 16 months". It's like the neocons who kept clinging (and in some cases still keep) to the Bush lie that Saddam attacked us on 9/11. Folks just believe what they want to hear.
 
I think we can all agree that this is a good thing since war stimulates the economy. Our economy has gone up, up, up since we invaded Iraq: high employment, falling prices, low home foreclosures...

Destruction = Production
 
i'm shocked that no one has made a high production quality youtube video exposing Obama as a liar and a fraud with regards to this Iraq war thing. the one with ron paul is pretty awesome, but that's like the only one out there. you would think there would be hundreds of various youtube videos that people would throw together.

there's got to be so many clips from various obama speeches where he talks about ending the Iraq war and where he criticizes bush and mccain and he just comes off looking such such a liar and a fraud and it would be so painfully obvious to everyone when they hear his old speeches and remember how they supported and believed this puppet.
 
eric_cartman said:
i'm shocked that no one has made a high production quality youtube video exposing Obama as a liar and a fraud with regards to this Iraq war thing. the one with ron paul is pretty awesome, but that's like the only one out there. you would think there would be hundreds of various youtube videos that people would throw together.

there's got to be so many clips from various obama speeches where he talks about ending the Iraq war and where he criticizes bush and mccain and he just comes off looking such such a liar and a fraud and it would be so painfully obvious to everyone when they hear his old speeches and remember how they supported and believed this puppet.
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That's a good idea, I've never made any youtube videos but I'm looking to get into it...lacking that technological vigor.
 
There once was 170,000 troops there. No it isn't zero yet, but numbers are going down (and no, I do not expect them to go to zero either).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2010-02-16-iraq-troops_N.htm
Posted 2/16/2010 9:07 PM


U.S. troops at lowest level in Iraq since 2003 invasion

BAGHDAD (AP) — The number of American troops in Iraq has dropped below 100,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
The U.S. military plans on maintaining its current 98,000 troops on the ground in Iraq through the March 7 elections, said 1st Lt. Elizabeth Feste, an army spokeswoman in Baghdad.

That's in line with what Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has said would remain in place until at least 60 days after the election — a period during which he has said Iraq's new government will be at its most vulnerable.

President Obama has ordered all but 50,000 troops to leave Iraq by Aug. 31. The remainder will pull out by the end of next year under an Iraqi-American security agreement.

"The withdrawal pace remains on target for about 50,000 at the end of August 2010," Feste said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is running for re-election on a campaign promise to make Iraq independent from U.S. military help. At a campaign rally Tuesday, he said the United States cannot expect to use Iraq as a launching pad for military action in the Middle East.

"We also confirm to all our neighboring and friendly countries that our constitution stipulates to not let the Iraqi territories be a springboard to harm security and interests of any state," al-Maliki told supporters at a Baghdad hotel.

During the height of the invasion in May 2003, about 150,000 U.S. forces were in Iraq. That number quickly dropped off by January 2004 as American troops moved from a combat to occupation role.

The troop levels ramped up in October 2007 as part of a troop surge ordered by President Bush. At the peak of the surge there were roughly 170,000 troops on the ground. Violence dropped dramatically as a result, but the Pentagon has warned that attacks may increase in the weeks leading to the election.

The Pentagon has said it is concerned that tension between the Shiite-dominated government and minority Sunnis could reignite sectarian violence that was tamped down by the troop surge.

Thousands of angry Sunnis protested Tuesday in Fallujah against comments attributed to a Shiite lawmaker who allegedly insulted a companion of the prophet Mohammed revered by Sunnis. The demonstrations in Fallujah west of Baghdad followed a similar protest of hundreds of Sunnis in Baghdad on Monday over the comments by lawmaker Bahaa al-Aaraji.

On Tuesday, a string of bombs targeted Iraqi army patrols and a police crime lab in Mosul northwest of Baghdad. In the first attack, a car bomb exploded outside a side entrance of the lab, said Lt. Col. Salim Ibrahim, an area commander. It killed two people.

Later, two roadside bombs struck separate Iraqi army patrols in eastern Mosul, killing two soldiers.
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Are these contractors military forces- armed and fighting? Somebody building housing and schools is not the same as a soldier. What are the contractors doing?
 
The date may not be correct but the intention to get troops out of Iraq still seems to be in effect and progress towards that has been made.
 
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