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This video is from the live telecast, last night, of the 4-2 Stryker Brigade, the last U.S. combat brigade leaving Iraq. They drove from Baghdad to the Kuwait border. And crossed over – clearing their weapons as they left Iraq.
There are several video clips at the MSNBC site. Their servers weren’t doing a great job of keeping up, last night. If things are keeping up, just let the videos load and run in sequence. Sorry for the occasional commercial between segments; but, the video[s] are worth watching.
I watched it live – last night. They did about 4 hours of uncut, live feeds from Iraq with reporters and guest commentators in Iraq and the MSNBC studios
#31 Bobbo –
>> “The initial invasion/war/winning that War in Afghan was I agree “somewhat” justified. MEANING there were other options that were even better: like in/decapitation/out”
I agree 100%. We should have gone in, focused on the task, finished it quickly and gotten out. We were this “-> <-" close. We had the support of the population, the momentum, the organization, everything. Instead, under the "leadership" of Rumsfeld and Cheney, we abandoned it when we were almost victorious.
And now Afghanistan has become a much worse situation, something that we really need to do something about. A failure there will destabilize the region, and that could have dire consequences. We need a stable Afghanistan. But even more importantly, we need a stable Pakistan, something that is less and less likely with every passing month the way that things are going over there. As is, the top third of Pakistan is basically lost to religious fanatics right now, and in case you forget, we almost had to go into Pakistan and collect the nukes that they have to keep them out of our enemies hands just two years ago.
In the end, Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires", so we may be just wasting our time, but it is something that can not be ignored.
Thanks Awake.
There is NO EVIDENCE OR RATIONALE that our actions in Afghan or Iraq or Pakistan have anything to do with making the place more stable. Its just a morass we are throwing our money and strength into with the most likely outcome simply being a delay in what would have been anyway: NOT WORTH THE EXPENSE.
The something we need to do is GET OUT!!!!!! Save our money. Rebuild our forces. Learn from it. Powell Doctrine. Israeli type hit squads. In/out. Destroy evil cultures from within: give them soap operas on TV. Fight our enemies by being SMART, not gorillas.
“Yes, with mathematical certainty……..”
Awake…I believe the war with N Korea is the longest war the US has been invovled in. The armistice only ended fighting but a formal surrender has not come yet.
Semantics…perhaps, but it still true.
We do have 50,000 troops on the ground and they are still armed. I’m sure that many a Jihadist would still be more than happy to kill one of them.
We also have a lot of contracted something or other. I’m not sure who they are or how they are equipped. They may be using Russian equipment for all I know.
Success!
“…the U.S. Energy Department reported inventories of 1.1 billion barrels of oil and fuel. That’s the highest since 1990, when this data began to be collected.” Nightly Business Report, 8/18/2010
Great!
Now who do I vote for to get the remaining 50,000 home?