Most troops should be pulling out after the elections (if they take place). They can’t achieve much by being there themselves and only serve as an “occupying” presence in a supposedly sovereign country, reminding the Iraqis of the more powerful presence of the Christian infidel. The only troops who should stay are those necessary for training purposes.
I agree.
On a side note, I’ve seen this article and one about the Polish troops pulling out in the same time period being brought up quite a bit on the web apparently in an effort to make it appear as though the coalition in Iraq is breaking up.
How sad is it that this type of “news” gets discussed more than the democratic elections in Afghanistan or Iraq? It seems to me that historic events are occuring and passing by unseen while the majority of the western world is caught up in this “gotcha” game.
Well, maybe at some time in the future we can look back on those events in retrospect and celebrate their significance.
In fact, my country might pull out the troops even at the end of this year – if the right-wing opposition doesn’t give a majority to the government’s plan to extend the contingent’s time occupying Iraq (spent transporting materials for the other countries’ military 95% of the time).
Of couse, what will come in January won’t have to do any more with a ‘democracy’ than what my countrymen had in 1947, under Soviet occupation.
The coalition of the bribed is disbanding, having accomplished its fig-leaf purpose of masking that the invasion was a purely American operation.
The pullout of the third-stringers is hardly headline news except, perhaps, for the country pulling out.
Most troops should be pulling out after the elections (if they take place). They can’t achieve much by being there themselves and only serve as an “occupying” presence in a supposedly sovereign country, reminding the Iraqis of the more powerful presence of the Christian infidel. The only troops who should stay are those necessary for training purposes.
I agree.
On a side note, I’ve seen this article and one about the Polish troops pulling out in the same time period being brought up quite a bit on the web apparently in an effort to make it appear as though the coalition in Iraq is breaking up.
How sad is it that this type of “news” gets discussed more than the democratic elections in Afghanistan or Iraq? It seems to me that historic events are occuring and passing by unseen while the majority of the western world is caught up in this “gotcha” game.
Well, maybe at some time in the future we can look back on those events in retrospect and celebrate their significance.
In fact, my country might pull out the troops even at the end of this year – if the right-wing opposition doesn’t give a majority to the government’s plan to extend the contingent’s time occupying Iraq (spent transporting materials for the other countries’ military 95% of the time).
Of couse, what will come in January won’t have to do any more with a ‘democracy’ than what my countrymen had in 1947, under Soviet occupation.
The coalition of the bribed is disbanding, having accomplished its fig-leaf purpose of masking that the invasion was a purely American operation.
The pullout of the third-stringers is hardly headline news except, perhaps, for the country pulling out.