I don’t think that we will ever leave Iraq fully. I was stationed at Balad and it sure doesn’t look like a temporary base. They were putting up permanent buildings when I left in late 2005. I imagine we will do to Iraq exactly what we did in Germany or Korea, it we just be another overseas duty station.

Mord on March 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM

Post of the day. We are not leaving.

See this lefty site. Interesting stuff

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/photos-embassy-iraq/

AubieJon on March 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM

There, fixed it for yah.

We’re supposed to kill the Taliban, but only some of them. We’re pulling out, but building up at the same time. The presser was about strategy, but there was no discussion of it? The boldest move he’s made is to change the name from Global War on Terrorism to Contingency Operations?

In the words of Ed Grimley, “We’re as doomed as doomed can be.”

the area to service the equipment in situ that price is stable. If you perchance ‘bug out’ the orders of exit will be at the brigade level irrespective of the logistics. So when materiel gets state side for repair the specialists may not be there for the repairs. So now you are transshipping either materiel or personnel for the repairs till the logistics get rebalanced.

Dr. Dog on March 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM

In rolling stock alone, it outnumbers the soldiers there. It they had to bug out quickly, we’d be leaving some Hummers behind.

There is not a better story watching a soldier surprise their kids at school when they come home.

getalife on March 26, 2009 at 10:26 AM

See that once in a movie did ya?

It’s pretty moving in real life, with real soldiers when it really happens. It also feels good when the sentiment comes from people you know really mean it and not just the useless tools who think it’s okay to like the military now that their guy is in power.

I liked you guys better when you were saying that you hated us and were wishing for us to fail. At least then you were being truthful. Now you feel like youi have to go along with the act your president is putting on.

Let me clue you in. There are no plans being discussed at my level to make me think after we get back from OEF that we won’t still have a deployment to OIF. You’re smoking crack dude, dudette whatever you are if you think you idiot in charge has this thing wired. And if he was so f*cking smart, why didn’t he oofer some advice when he was a Senator? By the way he was talking, he was going to have us home at the end of this year.

Idiots, parrots, disengenuous unpatriotic assclowns.

Earlier, Obama talked about a 19-month timetable for withdrawal.

That was drawing from his vast military experience, of watching M*A*S*H* reruns.

It’s as if Major Frank Burns got a tan and became President.

These things would go on, on a different time line, whether we withdraw too quickly or not. The cost would have to be paid.

burt

It is a matter of logistics. If the materiel and men are in the area to service the equipment in situ that price is stable. If you perchance ‘bug out’ the orders of exit will be at the brigade level irrespective of the logistics. So when materiel gets state side for repair the specialists may not be there for the repairs. So now you are transshipping either materiel or personnel for the repairs till the logistics get rebalanced.

I always wonder what surviving WW2 vets think of what’s going on today.

ErinF on March 26, 2009 at 10:42 AM

Since they are dying at the rate of about a thousand every day, it’ll be just a short time before there will be no one to speak from personal experience.

All of our enemies, foreign or domestic, are patient.

myrenovations on March 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM

I think it’s close. It will be a Civil War and worse than the last one. There are still millions of people (counting on their monthly checks) who adore him.

stenwin77 on March 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM

That’s how I’d do it – make sure the military is deployed and then slowly sapped of strength – then make my move.

No surprises here. Obama is not up for this. I hope the OJT picks up some speed before he runs this thing into a ditch.

The date is set.
They are coming home.

Define “they”.

The Iraqis. They’re coming home to Michigan.

The surrender date is set .

buyavowel on March 26, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Fixed it for ya.

That retreat from South Korea is still going on over 50 years later–the names have changed, but the situation stays the same. Is South Korea the model for Iraq?

Can’t troops just pay for their own flight, ship, or road trip back to the US? You want them to pay for their insurance so you might as well go all the way.

And as for all the equipment just leave it their since your so awesome at diplomacy we’ll never have to fight another war anyway.

Oh, BTW. I hear now that obamas in charge, it’s in vogue to volunteer for USO Shows again. Sources tell me they’re lining up now to comfort the troops. Couldn’t do it last year. Nosiree!

hawkdriver on March 26, 2009 at 11:33 AM

That makes me sick. If I was in the military and some hypocrite two-bit performer showed up just because Obama is in charge, I wouldn’t attend. I truly detest Hollywood.

Ares on March 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM

My full whiteness is ashamed of his white half. Happy now?

Liberal ethics=Situational outrage=JOKE

Oh, BTW. I hear now that obamas in charge, it’s in vogue to volunteer for USO Shows again. Sources tell me they’re lining up now to comfort the troops. Couldn’t do it last year. Nosiree!

Then they either expire ~or become like silly putty.

His teleprompter says that troops will withdraw from Iraq not in Barry’s promised 18 months, but within 2-3 years.

While a residual force of “support” personnel, numbering 25-30,000, will remain in country for a decade, or more.

(Very quietly… since the Dems pointedly won’t “notice”.)

TOTUS rules!

Obama fools.