So the man says combat operations are finished in Iraq, and the nation shrugs. Like anything is going to change.
This doesn’t feel like the end of Vietnam. We were all so over Vietnam. Nobody wanted to talk about it, once it was really over. But Iraq isn’t Vietnam — no draft, no 58,236 U.S. military deaths, far less news coverage. Most Americans were not directly impacted by Iraq, and so it was more of an abstraction for most than Vietnam was.
Well, discuss, if you like.
I’m confused! Did we win?
The only things I can be certain of is that the 50,000 combat soldiers who remain in Iraq are not combat soldiers….they’re just soldiers with guns who look like combat soldiers, but they’re really not combat soldiers providing they don’t get into any combat. And that George Bush loves America, and appreciates all the men and women died for the WMD’s that never were.
Shame on Obama.. He knew that he was going to have to eat a shit sandwich for Bush’s Iraq debacle .. It could have been a bit more palatable if he put a dressing of honesty and dignity on it to help it go down. Let’s just turn the page..Like it never happened!
It was a sad non-ending for the most needless war and occupation in our history. ‘Georgies Big Adventure,’ or ‘Georgies Oil Grab’ was a horrendous and tragic flop that we will be paying for for generations.
And the coffins won’t stop coming. The troops remaining there will not face even close to the same circumstances that the troops did that were left in Europe, Japan, or even South Korea.
For what he’s done, I thank Obama, but I’d feel at least a little bit better if the architects of this, this tragedy, were facing charges at The Hague. Thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s, dead or wounded, millions displaced, and the only price they’ll pay is having to be careful what countries they visit because maybe someone other than the United States will decide to prosecute them for the war criminals they are. I could only hope…
Swami — I googled to find out who won. It was the Yankees over the Oakland Athletics, 9-3.
And young Phil Hughes got his 17th win!
The war is winding down, at least for our soldiers, but the effects on Iraq’s people will last for generations. We’ve generated a lot of bad will in the country and made Iran a much stronger player in the region.
Most of the world doesn’t share our memory failures, so don’t expect the phrases “Abu Ghraib” and “weapons of mass destruction” to be forgotten anytime soon.
The projected cost of dealing with the trauma to our soldiers is in excess of four hundred billion dollars. Think about that, and then consider the thousands more who are dead in a war that did not need to be fought.
The war may have had low visibility in the big city, but in small towns you couldn’t miss the Welcome Back Pvt X and Good Luck Sgt Y signs on local businesses. I grew up in the big city, so even the Vietnam War was almost invisible, but in some areas it has been easy to ignore, but never invisible.
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plain
And the women come out to cut up what remains
‘jes roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
and go to your God like a soldier,
A soldier of the Queen!”
We thank you all for your sacrifice based on a pack of rediculous lies, and we will not prosecute the war criminals, because, that would be just plain rude.
Now run along…..