• Obama Praises Troops as He Ends the War He Opposed
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This war has gone on for so long, and has been embedded so deeply into the mind of society through the constant media barrage.... I almost thought it was normal for a little while, you know, to constantly be at war.
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;33722598]I almost thought it was normal for a little while, you know, to constantly be at war.[/QUOTE] The US and Britain have been consistently at war with one nation or another for at least 300 years. (well there was a short bit of breathing room for the USA just after WW2. As for britain you need to go back to the early 18th century to find a period where we weren't at war at all)
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And then war with Pakistan in a couple months.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;33720983]I wonder what it will be like when all of our "operations" are over, will we finally be able to simply focus on ourselves? Will we have the same progression we had in the Clinton era?[/QUOTE] I do agree with you, we should get out of all these wars, but citing Clinton as someone who refrained from foreign operations is entirely false. Black Hawk Down is a good example.
I'm glad this is coming to an end; hopefully the end to operations in the middle east will completely stop soon too. We should now focus on domestic issues, and repair our economy.
Why don't we just let these third-world countries burn to the ground? Restart everything, burn all the buildings, the people, it's all desert anyways. Glass the damned places. What is the POINT of sending OUR troops to die at the hands of some towelhead with an IED, all because of Bush's oil/weapons money grab. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism." - Seiteki))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723533]Why don't we just let these third-world countries burn to the ground? Restart everything, burn all the buildings, the people, it's all desert anyways. Glass the damned places. What is the POINT of sending OUR troops to die at the hands of some towelhead with an IED, all because of Bush's oil/weapons money grab.[/QUOTE] Did you seriously just suggest glassing an entire country?
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;33723584]Did you seriously just suggest glassing an entire country?[/QUOTE] You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723629]You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.[/QUOTE] I think we should let them solve their own problems, but suggesting annihilating an entire country full of people is nothing but malice. Sure, there are a lot of terrible, sickening excuses for human beings there, but there the majority of the inhabitants are innocent civilians. Besides,keeping an entire nation of people undestroyed and preserving the lives of our soldiers isn't a mutually exclusive thing.
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723629]You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.[/QUOTE] Wow really
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723629]You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.[/QUOTE] Roosevelt?
Obama fails to negotiate an extended stay with the Iraqi government, takes credit for the war ending
My unit left Iraq a few days ago... what they don't tell you is that they just sent them all to Kuwait.
Yeah this is awesome Brother's coming back from Iraq, first he apparently goes to Kuwait for 5 days then finally home 15 days later, it's back to Fort Hood. shit sucks, anyone have any ideas where he's going to be redeployed? I mean where are places they can send him
[QUOTE=Lazor;33726145]Obama fails to negotiate an extended stay with the Iraqi government, takes credit for the war ending[/QUOTE] He's just trying to grasp onto anything that could possibly help his chance of getting reelected.
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723629]You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.[/QUOTE] Your post made me a tiny ashamed to be Canadian. what the fuck man.
I'm ecstatic our soldiers are no longer being killed for this war. I'm very glad our soldiers will not be fighting in it anymore. It's pretty fucking depressing to look at the state of Iraq, today, and think "That's the best we could do." Have fun with your country, Iraqis. We tried not to fuck it up too bad.
and iraq kicked us out in large part due to a leak of a diplomatic cable by wikileaks about the US covering up civilian deaths in Iraq so suck on that if you derided the leaks as "useless"
what the republicans have to say [quote]Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Obama's one-time rival for the presidency, issued a particularly harsh verdict on his handling of Iraq. "I believe that history will judge this president's leadership with the scorn and disdain it deserves," McCain said on the Senate floor[/quote] [quote]To underscore the political significance, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of the leading GOP presidential contenders, addressed an open letter to Obama and sent it to the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer decrying the unemployment rate for veterans. Unemployment for veterans who served after Sept. 11, 2001, was 11.1 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Romney called such a statistic a "disgrace." "In the face of such economic hardship, fine words welcoming veterans home are insufficient," he wrote. "It is time for a fundamental change of direction. If you won't or can't lead our country out of the economic morass you've deepened, then I would suggest that it's time for you to go." McCain accused Obama of making a political decision, arguing that the U.S. should have left troops in Iraq to help secure the country. He said Obama was able to bring the war to a conclusion thanks to a troop surge in 2007 that Obama, as a U.S. senator, had opposed. "For three years, the president has been harvesting the successes of the very strategy that he consistently dismissed as a failure," McCain said.[/quote] source:[url]http://news.yahoo.com/obama-marks-iraq-wars-end-salute-troops-205305261.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723629]You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.[/QUOTE] And fuck the hundreds of thousands of completely innocent people who would die...
[QUOTE=Djentleman;33723629]You can think of it that way, I prefer to think of it as saving the lives of Canadian, American, and British troops.[/QUOTE] dumpass
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