unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on
Army Times, and
Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on
Navy Times,
Marine Corps Times,
stripes.com and
military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.
Read all about Fair Use
here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.
unhappycamper summary of this article: If the truth be known, the United States will
never leave Iraq until a) the United States economy collapses or b) 218 congresscritters with balls stop the money spigot.
Get the fuck out. We have blown almost $3 trillion dollars in Iraq by time you count the medical care the VA must provide to wounded soldiers.
Leaked files portray weak, divided IraqBy Robert Burns - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Oct 23, 2010 14:10:21 EDT
Crocker called it "profoundly important" that the U.S. maintain a military presence in Iraq beyond 2011, despite America's weariness with the long and costly war and pressure to shift more resources to Afghanistan.