BREAKING — President Obama Will Announce Today Complete Drawdown of US Troops in Iraq to Zero By End of Year

Congratulations, Iran. Your patience has finally paid off.

yeah…he waited until re-election year to do this, when he said it would be done after getting elected.

Yep, Iran commits an act of war and we reward them with Iraq. Hope this plays to his leftwing base because that’s all it will achieve. Someone go knock on their tent and tell them the ‘good’ news.

There is no guarantee that (a) he will followup with this commitment any better than he has with others, or that (b) there will be “transparency” to prove that it is actually happening. But to remove more than 180,000 troops, supplies and equipment in 75 days is to invite disruption in the “democracy” that 10 years of U.S. involvement helped create. Of course, if he actually follows through, he will likely leave most of the equipment behind ensuring that 5 years from now we will see it again in use by forces opposed to us.

Ok Obummer, make sure we pull out just in time for Al-Qaeda to take over. Mission accomplished in Libya where Obummer has murdered Kaddafi and installed Al-Qaeda as the ruling party… no onto Iraq….Obummer is nothing but a traitor to the American people! Along with all of those that support him and his cronies.

You guys on this blog are just right wing haters! Get over yourselves and quit hating. Obama will win in a landslide!

Let’s wait and see some real results. We know have a base there the size of the Vatican. The troops should come home but it’s a stretch to believe that the man who has seen more troop deaths than Bush will actually do it. We shall see.

Obama just followed Bush’s Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi’s (signed that day the shoe was thrown ) to the last letter EXCEPT, we’ve already been their longer than the Agreement.

The announcement should be…. Wait a minut the anouncement happened the day Bush signed the SoFa with the Iraqis

Obama is going to reannounce to make it seem like he did something

Pathetic

“yeah…he waited until re-election year to do this, when he said it would be done after getting elected.”

Well.. it is still being done after getting elected. I would say its a promise kept wouldn’t you?

On behalf of those who have served and those who have sons and daughters in the Armed Forces, thank you Mr. President

Actually, the complete pullout only involves Iraq based troops. While there are 180,000 men in Afghanistan & Iraq, only 39,500 are in Iraq.

60,000 + will remain in Afghanistan thru next year.

Credit? Goes to the Lord of Peace, in Jesus Christ.

Javon is ignorant about how these things work. Obama didn’t kill Osama — the Navy Seals did, pal. And they did so because several years of intelligence gathering work (you know, those things you liberals get all squeemish about) finally paid off. Obama just happened to be president when Osama was finally tracked down. But if it makes you feel better to give Obama the credit for killing Osama, feel free to stroke your ego. We in the military are used to hearing your fits, and we know the real story.

CNTRLFRK,

show gratitude!? for what?! first off Bush lied to us and the american people to get us into this war!!! A war with no clear goal!!! Any of those WMD’s found yet?! But we do have 5K soldiers dead!!! and a cost of billions per month. I know this because I’m a soldier who just retired after 20 years! Wow how some people are blinded by color!!!…I say this because from reading the negative blogs I sit and wonder how is this President is any worse than any of the others. Did a little research and found out he’s by far not the worst!! There are 4 others that did terrible jobs! The President is just a figure head anyway…congress is in the drivers seat.

“President Obama convened a secure video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to talk with him about this news.”

Talk with? Doubt it. TELLING HIM is more like it. Not to worry, just like the Czechs and Poles, Barry’s got your back al-Maliki. In other words, you’re screwed.

funny how folks want us (soldiers) pulled out, but didn’t have anything to say when we were sent over there KNOWING that there were no WMD’s!!! that’s why we get INTEL to make “smart” decisions. For the non military folks…it’s a little more complicated than saying “everyone pack your bags we’re going home” and sending aircraft. It floors me when someone says “why don’t they just bring the troops home”. Go join any branch of the armed forces, get deployed and pick up a weapon and see how “easy” it is to come home…before criticizing the current President and not cirticizing the one that sent us there on a lie!!!

This is great news! If only the trillions of $’s that were spent could have been spent on America, and not a tar pit quagmire. Great news for everyone but Republican hacks, the only position they can take is that whatever Obama does is wrong.

The communist islamo moslim USURPER wants the U.S. out of HIS moslim lands. So now he will have turned over Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Irag to HIS islamo moslim brotherhood and their sharia. Iran thanks their brother osama obama.

..funny how Obama haters don’t remember the other guy spending close to $10 bil a month on a BS war. Well at least him and Cheney profitted from it or Cheney telling us soldiers that our armor was good enough when we requested better vehicles. Folks on the sideline are just cheerleaders. Good job “O”!! someone called Obama a murderer…did you say the same when the other guys was torturing folks?….by any means necessary! War isn’t fair!

RADIOMAN77,

Bush Sr and Jr sent us into their war…….so what are you saying? It ok if they do it? Hypocrites!

Boat guy,

Good call!

Boat Guy….. the “Re-Publi-Trd-Minions” wouldn’t be able to understand your 1:42 PM post… thinking like that is way above their level of thought.

hehehehehe

@ustuspofolks…let me guess, your African American and don’t work, on housing, and welfare and Obama is making it great for you lazy *&^ people to sit on your behinds while the rest of us work to pay for it..You make me sick.
TO E:, Bush didn’t know there were no WMD’s and what’s the difference, we got rid of some really horrible people (and I use that term loosely). By the way my son is a Captain in the Air Force and been deployed several times and I know that Obama didn’t know anything about Bin Laden until it was after the fact. All of the hoopla was just to glorify him. By the way my son doesn’t regret anytime that he spent over there fighting for our Country as any soldier should be. I thank you for your service and am proud that you can live to complain about Bush. Not that it matters, He was stll a better President than the sorry excuse we have now. He hates America and is trying to destroy it from the inside. What actually has he done except made it where the lazy can keep being lazy and the people that work can work harder to make ends meet so that the lazy has more money to live on. @NOFOXZONE..Flawless record my foot. He hasn’t done one thing that he promised except make it harder for the working people so the lazy can live like Kings, but then again, he has done one thing…he has taken more vacations on the taxpayer’s dollar in the years he has been in office than any other President and Bush did in his whole 8 years in office.

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LOL!

Funny watching you lefties be led around by the nose!

First you are for the War in Iraq, then when the democrat party turned against America leading up to the 2004 elections, you decided you were against War. Then Obama is ‘elected’ and now you are all for War again!

LMAO!

Lemme guess, after we elect a true Republican Leader next year to replace Obama, you will suddenly be against War again??

Sad.

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Patty,
Bush did know! I’m not saying this because I disagree with what he did concerning the war. I commend your son! The AF is where I served my 20 yrs. You’re mistaken, I’m not complaining at all. I read these blogs full of complaining and negativity and it makes me sick!!! Everyone complains, but has no solution! When I speak on military issues I speak of what I know, not what I think. When inspectors were sent to Iraq to look for WMD’s ..by Bush and we were not let into certain areas..we gathered intel in other ways. The status of Iraq’s WMD’s were known the reason why none were found to this day. Another thing that kills me is that people want regulation after bad things happen…like say…the home lenders fiasco…..or the sorry excuse for health care in the U.S. . If “O” hates America, then both Bush’s, G.Ford, J.Carter, Reagan and a few others did….because the job they did was less than stellar. Folks complain about paying taxes. The rich gets taxed less..blah..blah. American companies taking work overseas, but getting U.S. tax breaks makes no sense. some at least “trys” to level the field but gets stoned. Do your research on the Bush vacation thing…you’d be surprised! and as a soldier i don’t like being lied to, just tell me we are goin’ over here to kick the bad guys butt. Did you know that we also knew that Saddam didn’t have anything to do with 9/11….so why waste resources in Iraq when we should’ve been using those wasted to focus on Bin laden.

is that right obamas backers are Goldman sacchs well whats really going on in the arms race.

Boat Guy…Congress is where the money deals get done. $5 trillion in new debt from 2006 to December 2010 (you remember Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, don’t you). Record deficit spending by Obama. No other president comes close (FACT). Yet you’re going to blame Republicans for Obama’s mess. Does anybody on the left have any stones? Will anybody on the left take ownership? Man-up must have a totally different context for the lefty liberal class in the halls of Congress. I bet it means something entirely different to the likes of Barney Frank!

I’m curious as to what our generals think of this.- – - – I already know what Iran thinks – Thank You Obama!

What a lot of half-truths and out right lies in far-right comments here!
I think that the biggest one was Bush planned this troop withdrawal. Was this the same President Bush who’s head guy said the whole operation would be done in a few months? Was this the same Bush administration that ignored the U.N. inspectors who said there was no wmd in Iraq? Was this the same Bush administration who also ignored the advice from the experts from his Dad’s administration who said never invade Iraq as it would start a civil war? And whose administration sent in our troops without enough body armor or armored vehicles?

Thank you, to President Obama for withdrawing the troops, caring enough to push for finding Bin Laden, (Bush claimed it wasn’t important just 6 months after 9/11) and having us join with NATO to support the brave Libyan people fighting for freedom.
Despite the Republicans blocking important things like funding closing Guantanamo, the many jobs bills, appointments, raising taxes on the wealthy to decrease our deficit, Obama has done a lot of good.

S, October 21, 2011, 3:07 PM, Said:

“Congress is where the money deals get done. $5 trillion in new debt from 2006 to December 2010 (you remember Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, don’t you).”
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LOL! …. First, learn to understand how your government works and get your years right. Just because Democrats were elected to congress in “NOVEMBER 2006″, doesn’t mean they were in office in 2006. The Dems took over congress when they were sworn in in “JANUARY 2007″. So your effort to try and tack on an additonal year of government spending to the Democrats by claiming “from 2006″ is bogus.

Second, during the 12-year period that Republicans controlled both houses of congress from 1995 to 2006, the national debt increased by $4 Trillion dollars… LOL! … so much for “fiscal conservative” Republicans.

The problem with Republicans is that when we put them in office, they’re very good at introducing “tax cuts” (less revenue), but they also (just like Democrats) introduce bigger government (more spending). The combination of the two is what led our debt increase rate to jump from “billions-per-president” under Carter (Carter’s total debt accumulated equaled $280 billion), to “trillions-per-president” starting with Ronald Reagan (Reagan’s total debt accumulated equaled $1.7 trillion)…. LOL! … and Reagan had a Republican Senate for 6 of his 8 years.

George W. Bush followed Reagan’s path, i.e., more “tax cuts” with growth in spending (for the wars, the new federal department, and MEDICARE Part D). With the Bush Tax Cuts (without cuts in spending), a new “debt-per-president” standard was established by George W. Bush. While Clinton’s accumulated debt equaled a figure less than Reagan’s ($1.6 trillion), G.W. Bush’s accumulated debt jumped up to $4.9 trillion…. another “higher standard” set by those “fiscal conservative” Republicans.

Anyone who thinks that the Republican solution to our debt problem is the answer (i.e., “more tax cuts”) is smoking dope.

I truly think that withdrawing all our troops is not the right thing to do. We need to learn to finish what we start and take some responsibility for our actions. Yes, it’s very sad that we’ve lost so many men and women in this war, but the one thing we don’t take into consideration is the fact that when our men and women are enlisting they know exactly what they could be facing. It’s the risk that they all knowingly take and face with great pride because they are a part of the US military. Why don’t we do our job there and make sure we’re leaving a country that is safe for it’s own citizens. They shouldn’t just be abandoned like this.

Republicans can’t seem to make up their minds. On one side of their mouth they say we need to finish our mission there which is?????? and on the other side they claim that we are spending too much money there $1 trillion and still counting (and they blame that on Obama). It’s seems that they will change their position just to be against Obama. This president has an A+ on foreign policy, Killed Bin Ladin, ousted Kadaffy without one casualty, and now, he’s made good on a campaign promise. I just wish republicans in Congress would stop obstructing his health care and jobs programs and do what he was elected to do.