Jul -- News: The Iraq War is over! ^

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Posted on 08-20-10 12:45:37 AM

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Yea, finally we can put the money we will be saving to better uses, such as medical and environmental research, etc! =)

I never liked that war anyway...

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Posted on 08-20-10 01:42:17 AM

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Except we still have 50,000 troops there.

Better than nothing, but we've still got a ways to go before we get out of the Middle East, and it's likely we'll be there forever.

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Posted on 08-20-10 02:31:38 AM

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For real, this time. Though I guess we're going to have a lot of troops over there for a very long time.

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Posted on 08-20-10 06:44:40 PM

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It's not much to me, most of the money from there is just being moved into Afghanistan.

Why doesn't any US president read a book about Vietnam, realize we have no place as interventionist warmongers, and focus all that lost money into improving our economy/country instead?

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Posted on 08-20-10 07:18:22 PM (last edited by Terra at 08-20-10 04:18 PM)

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I believe that the USA should stop declaring war entirely.

The military's purpose should be defence and possibly helping out if a World War III occurs.

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Posted on 08-20-10 07:28:35 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
I believe that the USA should stop declaring war entirely.

The military's purpose should be defence and possibly helping out if a World War III occurs.

...Possibly? Who else is going to do it? Angry Teabaggers?

The military has a purpose, but the nation as a whole needs to realize that running a state with such high military cannot be sustained. It's a shame most of this is consequence from Cold War thinking.

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Posted on 08-20-10 08:12:08 PM

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Wait... My friend just left for a 10 month tour of duty in Iraq last week. As far as she knew, she wasn't part of a training force, she was supposed to be keeping the peace (and the people, she's a medic) alive in a northern province.

Strange. But good news regardless, I guess. We really should have never been there. Iran on the other hand... Maybe Bush spelled the name wrong in his letter to Congress asking for war to be declared.

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Posted on 08-21-10 08:01:59 AM

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50,000 troops are still there until next year for training (though I believe they can enter into combat if necessary, it isn't their main purpose).

So it's not "over", but it's a lot better than it was.

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Posted on 08-21-10 04:54:44 PM

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Hmm, must've ran out of oil. Pointless war.

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Posted on 08-22-10 05:05:26 PM

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I want to believe that future administrations will take not of the failures in the Iraq War and work to keep us out of foreign affairs. I understand that with a global economy complete isolationism is impossible but the Founding Fathers had the right idea by keeping America isolationist. We really need to return to those roots and get out dick out of everyones asses. Maybe they will like us better after that.

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Posted on 08-22-10 06:39:39 PM

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You greatly underestimate the power of the military-industrial complex.

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Posted on 08-22-10 08:54:38 PM (last edited by Friend2.0 at 08-22-10 05:55 PM)

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*sigh* One can always dream. As I said before, I WANT to believe that we will mind our own business, but I know that it will never really happen. I am glad our troops are coming home though.

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Posted on 08-23-10 12:12:38 AM

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We've been doing it since 1898, you'd think we would have gotten better at it by now. I hope Iraq and Afghanistan go the way of Germany, Japan, and Korea but I am more inclined to believe they will go the way of Angola, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.

We get it. Democracy is [theoretically] good and just. But putting countries in a camel clutch doesn't always make them humble. Sometimes they just get pissed.

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Posted on 08-31-10 09:34:01 PM

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As of an hour and a half ago, the war is officially over. Weird.

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Posted on 09-01-10 12:01:03 AM (last edited by saturos at 12-29-11 01:09 PM)

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Posted on 09-01-10 02:21:01 PM

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Originally posted by saturos
then that war should theoretically end sooner if all goes as planned.

It won't.

We'll either be over there long than we're being told, or the place will go right back to being a hell-hole. Fighting insurgents is extremely difficult.

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Posted on 09-05-10 10:48:01 PM

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Guess what guys, it's not!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq

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