Aug 19 2010

Last Combat Troops Leave Iraq

The last combat troops are leaving Iraq, crossing the border into Kuwait. It is being carried live on MSNBC. Keith Olbermann broke in to the Ed Show with the announcement

NEAR THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER – The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.

The final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., was about to enter Kuwait shortly after 1:30 a.m. (6:30 p.m. Wednesday ET), carrying the last of the 14,000 U.S. combat forces in Iraq, said NBC’s Richard Engel, who has been traveling with the brigade as it moved out this week.

Peter Daou:

   

The Iraq war is officially over: http://bit.ly/bVM4JO …question is, how many more lives will be lost there?

Now when do the others come home, out of harms way?

When so we start scaling down Afghanistan?

These are wars we can no longer afford either in expenditures of money or precious lives.

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  2. It was prearranged with MSNBC that they would have the exclusive on the troop withdrawal. Rachel Maddow is reporting live from the “International Zone”, formerly the “Green Zone”, and there is a reporter embedded with the last convoy.

  3. Don’t you think the US should have sold the “naming rights” for the Iraq “withdrawal”?

    LIke: “MSNBC brings you the Xe, Blockbuster, Exxon Mobil, Target Withdrawal from Iraq”  Doesn’t that just feel right??

  4. a victory dance.

    50,000 troops, thousands of mercenaries, and no political stability left behind.

    What galls me the most are the morons celebrating this as a ‘promise kept’ by Obama, when the Status of Forces agreement was signed by Bush.

  5. You don’t believe it any more than I do. It will be a mercenary occupation from here on in, with permanent US military bases across Iraq manned by 50,000 COMBAT TROOPS given a friendlier label.

  6. so haven’t watched KO for a while.

    Is he still announcing “x days since mission accomplished in Iraq”? (the day W said major combat operations where over.)

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