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7 fucking years

And it's finally over. Thank fucking god. This just made my day, I hadn't even heard about this until a headline on common dreams caught my eye.
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09-02-2010 05:29 AM
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So... You think the Iraqi's can hold themselves together?

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i give it a few years before they get into another mess.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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Hell no, I don't think they can keep it together at all. But who the fuck cares?
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Thought Criminal Wrote:Hell no, I don't think they can keep it together at all. But who the fuck cares?

Good question. Not our business. By the way, I'm pretty sure we left 50k troops there.

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Well everybody around us learned their lesson with us *saving* them if they piss us off.

Maybe soon we'll go *save* somebody else.

I actually laughed my ass off when I see talking like we better the lives of the Iraqis.

We put in more tyrants and crooked police forces oh america FUCK YEAH!

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There are some cities in Iraq where before we invaded you could walk around at night and not worry about crime. But now with a millitary precence people are afraid to go outside even during the day.
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Thought Criminal Wrote:There are some cities in Iraq where before we invaded you could walk around at night and not worry about crime. But now with a millitary precence people are afraid to go outside even during the day.

Not to mention they also said they are leaving some military in iraq I guess to make sure things go their way.

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HeartofShadows Wrote:
Thought Criminal Wrote:There are some cities in Iraq where before we invaded you could walk around at night and not worry about crime. But now with a millitary precence people are afraid to go outside even during the day.

Not to mention they also said they are leaving some military in iraq I guess to make sure things go their way.

From what I hear it's 50 thousand troops or so.

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Yeah. It's supposed to be alot. They are ending COMBAT operatins. Which means they aren't on the offense against the Taliban anymore, just over seeing the community.
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Right now we're just focusing on training the Iraqi Army. Which is pretty much what we should have been doing all along instead of wasting billions hunting down what was basically an infinite supply of insurgents.

About fucking time, if you ask me. My respect for Obama has just increased by a significant amount.

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I'm glad the American public has gotten to the point were they don't think this is a horrible thing that needs to be reversed. Laugh Usually there is a huge clusterfuck over a move like this.

Oh, and what the fuck are we doing in Afghanistan again? Are we still chasing Al Qaeda? I've lost track of the wars...

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Thought Criminal Wrote:And it's finally over.

Actually, it's not. Only combat troops have been pulled from Iraq. Thousands of support personnel remain. And trust me, if sectarian violence reemerges combat troops will be sent back to the area.

Iraq is going to be just like Korea, Italy and Germany. We're going to have a peacetime presence there for many years to come.
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50k lol, that's basically double the size of the australian army.
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Ayliana Wrote:
Thought Criminal Wrote:And it's finally over.

Actually, it's not. Only combat troops have been pulled from Iraq. Thousands of support personnel remain. And trust me, if sectarian violence reemerges combat troops will be sent back to the area.

Iraq is going to be just like Korea, Italy and Germany. We're going to have a peacetime presence there for many years to come.
Yeah I know. It sucks :/
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Yeah, but what countries don't we have military in? Last time I checked, we were pretty much stationed everywhere.

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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Yeah, but what countries don't we have military in? Last time I checked, we were pretty much stationed everywhere.

Americunts! Americunts Everywhere!

Sorry couldn't resist.

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classclown Wrote:i give it a few years before they get into another mess.

A few years? I'd say more like a few minutes. At best.
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Cosbydaf Wrote:
classclown Wrote:i give it a few years before they get into another mess.

A few years? I'd say more like a few minutes. At best.

Specially since we still have that bullshit with north korea.

My cousin is stationed in south korea now.

Not to mention china..

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