Thursday, August 19, 2010

Combat Troops Out of Iraq

To all who fought in Iraq… THANK YOU. 

Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama’s Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there.

(6) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0739 hrs
Foreign Affairs + Military + Politics + Politics - General

  1. I like how they say that it was well ahead of the deadline.  Unless they set the deadline a month ago and it only took half as long…I’m not that impressed by a 12-day difference.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 19, 2010 at 1304 hrs


  2. Gates and Obama got it done-on time

    Getting our is every bit as important as getting in.

    That’s especially true when it was a war that virtually all of us can agree that if the full facts were known at the time,Bush would not have started.

    (Not so with Cheney, but I’m giving Bush credit here )

    Declare Victory and leave.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 19, 2010 at 1356 hrs


  3. I think obama made a correct decition,i hope it will be a peaceful world!

    Posted by Juicy Couture on August 19, 2010 at 2243 hrs


  4. Gates and Obama got it done-on time

    Possibly the only thing that Obama deserves credit for at this point. Now, how about Afghanistan…. Because if you want to use the “Vietnam” analogy, that would be the place to do it.

    It is time to bring all of our troops home, and start using the savings to offset the ridiculous and out of control spending that this Moron-in-Chief has gotten us into.

    It is time to amend the war powers act. It needs to contain a requirement for a declaration of war to remain deployed beyond 90 days. Not just an “authorization for the use of military force”. Hell, I could probably be persuaded that we should not be sending forces overseas without a declaration of war, no matter the circumstances.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 23, 2010 at 1122 hrs


  5. start using the savings to offset the ridiculous and out of control spending that this Moron-in-Chief has gotten us into

    .

    Unfortunately, those savings will be like a “cents-off” coupon. The graph in this article is going viral all over the place today (well, not here, that’s for sure):
    Iraq: The War That Broke Us—Not

    “It was under Mr Bush that the deficit spiralled out of control as we fought an unnecessary and endless $3,000bn war in Iraq…”
    - James Carville, the Financial Times.


    “The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can’t spend $3 trillion—yes, $3 trillion—on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.”
    - Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Washington Post.

    The correct answer to my question, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is $709 billion. The Iraq War cost $709 billion. Why Carville, Bilmes, and Nobel-winning economist Stiglitz thought the answer was $3 trillion is anybody’s guess. But what’s a 323% error among friends?

    The sum of all the deficits from 2003 through 2010 is $4.73 trillion. Subtract the entire Iraq War cost and you still have a sum of $4.02 trillion.


    No one will say that $709 billion is not a lot of money. But first, that was spread over eight years. Secondly, let’s put that in some perspective. Below are some figures for those eight years, 2003 through 2010.


    •Total federal outlays: $22,296 billion.
    •Cumulative deficit: $4,731 billion.
    •Medicare spending: $2,932 billion.
    •Iraq War spending: $709 billion.
    •The Obama stimulus: $572 billion.

    Aren’t these also the same folks who tell us how well JFK and LBJ ran the economy back in the roaring ‘60s? During the eight years of 1961-69, 46% of all federal spending was on national defense. During President Bush’s eight years, defense spending did not even average 20% of federal outlays. Under JFK/LBJ, defense spending was 8%-9% of GDP. Under Bush, it was about 4%.


    How did the economy do so well in the 1960s, and so badly in the 2000s, when less than half as much of our resources were devoted to defense in that more recent term?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 23, 2010 at 1218 hrs


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