Bad news again for America and its men and women in uniform concerning Iraq. On a day when 3 more Americans were killed in Iraq the Associated Press reported the Pentagon is prepared to have U.S. troops stay in Iraq for a decade despite the agreement between the U.S. and Iraq to withdraw all U.S. troops from that country by 2012.
General George Casey, the army chief of staff said "global trends are pushing in the wrong direction, and that the world remains dangerous and unpredictable." Not much information there to explain the U.S. presence in Iraq for another 10 years. It seems some in the military want another Viet Nam. President Obama should immediately announce no such thing will happen and that the U.S.-Iraq agreement will be honored in full.
This unnecessary war has been a major recruitment tool for creating more terrorists. Our men and women in uniform do not need 10 more years of dying in Iraq or being rotated in and out of Iraq for seven or eight times. They have already been there and done that. Another 10 years in Iraq will guarantee the U.S. will be in a unnecessary perpetual war with terrorists.
The world will always be dangerous and unpredictable like it was during the "cold war" and like it was on 9/11. It was dangerous when Iraq invaded Kuwait and President Bush 41 responded. Bush had the wisdom to withdraw from Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein's military and ejection from Kuwait. Many of the people who supported the present war in Iraq was not happy with Bush's 41 decision not to occupy Iraq or go after Saddam. Some of them now want another 10 years to occupy Iraq. Those people care nothing about our men and women in uniform and would use any excuse to occupy middle east lands.
The war in Iraq over WMD that did not exist is in its 7th year. It was never about terrorism, but it created people to join terrorists organizations and wage war against our men and women in uniform. If President Obama agrees to occupy Iraq for another 10 years the 21st century will be devastating to our country and to our men and women in uniform. President Obama should reject this thinking immediately.
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The United States needs to get out of Iraq by the end of 2010. If Iraq can not take care of their country by then, it never will be able too. To many Americans have already died when war was not necessary.
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