[Bobby-Joe]

OMG! It was just announced the last combat brigade has left Iraq to the mercy of Islamo Faschits TERRORISTS!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38744453?GT1=43001

IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER — The last U.S. combat troops crossed the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.

The final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., began entering Kuwait about 1:30 a.m. (6:30 p.m. Wednesday ET), carrying the last of the 14,000 U.S. combat forces in Iraq, said NBC’s Richard Engel, who has been traveling with the brigade as it moved out this week.

NBC News video showed the last Stryker vehicles rolling up to the gate. A guard pulled it back, and the vehicles drove through. The gate closed behind them.

P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the State Department, told msnbc TV that while the departure is “an historic moment,” he said, it is not the end of the U.S. mission in Iraq.

“We are ending the war ... but we are not ending our work in Iraq,” he said. “We have a long-term commitment to Iraq.”

The White House website first trumpeted the "End of Combat in Iraq" before backtracking to note that the official end of combat operations is Aug. 31.

Still, and as the last soldiers reached Kuwait after midnight, they said they were proud of their effort.

The terrorists HAVE WON!!!

[Timofey]

Pansy BHO

The good news is there are still troops in the FOBs and else where that the press is not report on.

2 Timothy
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Smite the heathens for the love of God!

[Benedict A. Davis]

All I can say is a REAL PRESIDENT who had won a war, like George W., would have been at the head of that column driving the lead tank, leading his valiant warriors out of Iraq. Instead it is page 2 news under osama yomomma and his wishy washy socialist leadership.

Who will ever forget

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Obama finally gets his wish. He's given American territory over to the Islamofascists!

Jesus, come quickly.

Revelation 22:7 Behold, I come quickly

[Wash O'Hanley]

I just want to go on the record saying I was completely against this war from the very first time Obama said we should invade that country for their "weapons of mass destruction (disillusionment)."

[Lisa H]

Obama is a traitor to America and the free world. Lets all pray he will be quickly dealt with by Jesus.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

George W. Bush conquered Iraq back in 2003 and gave is famous "Mission Accomplished" victory speech. Leave it to Obama to turn the country back over to the terrorists. Disgusting.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

By completely capitulating to the Islamojihadofascists, Obama has placed us under the new Caliphate. We had to fight them in Al Anbar to keep from having to fight them in El Paso.

[LardBoy]

You got it all wrong, Bush won the war against Saddam years ago, since then it has only been a security mission, keeping the terrorists from taking power until the Iraqi government could do that on their own.

Now they can, so there is no need to waste money on having US troops in Iraq.

[Cranky Old Man]

I knew as soon as Obama started to change the USA army into a gay orgy organization, bad things would happen. Our next president will have a tough job fixing our army and repairing the economy that Obama completely destroyed. This really is a sad day.

[Bobby-Joe]

Originally Posted by LardBoy

You got it all wrong, Bush won the war against Saddam years ago, since then it has only been a security mission, keeping the terrorists from taking power until the Iraqi government could do that on their own.

Now they can, so there is no need to waste money on having US troops in Iraq.

Don't apologize for Obama's incompetence. If the military had only ten more years we would have complete victory over Al Quida and Iraq would be just Iowa.

[Robert Jones]

It's just shameful that our President is allowing America to be humiliated in Battle, Cranky Old Man is absolutely correct, how could our soldiers fight when they have to constantly be watching their behinds for attacks from the rear by fellow soldiers?

[WWJDnow]

This is just a temporary setback. When Sarah Palin is elected President in 2012, we'll turn those Strykers around, and this time WE WILL WIN OUR WAR AGAINST THE MUSLIMS!!

[H. Montague Worthington]

In less than 19 months, Barack Obama has destroyed the American economy, put millions of people out of work, foreclosed on thousands of Real Americans' homes, gayified the military, totally ruined the American health care system, appointed two activist lesbian judges to the Supreme Court, and turned Iraq over to terrorists. He is certainly in the running to top the destruction of history's other great monsters--- Ghengis Khan, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Mohammad, Stalin, and Jimmy Carter.

[Bobby-Joe]

Blogger takes aim at the critics of the Iraq War "failure"

Right here in the heart of the Liberal beast
http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-debate/61618/

Originally Posted by Douglas Jones

I am here to dispute the groundless claim that Goldberg's Iraq reporting was flawed...

WMD were not found, but there is no reason to believe they were not simply smuggled over the border into Syria or Iran. There are those who say there was no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda but Goldberg and others have argued -- convincingly, in my view -- that indeed there were. (Here, for example.)

And the other claims? Saddam was every bit the mass murder we thought he was. The oft-mocked "sweets and flowers" line? Chris Hitchens saw soldiers greeted with sweets flowers first-hand.

By many measures, Iraq was more of a threat than expected. Some say we caused a near civil war, but if that near civil war had happened under Saddam rather than under coalition rule, imagine what might have happened: poison gas, anthrax, genocide on a scale not seen in this generation.

It's easy to lament the things that went wrong in the Iraq war and there is no denying that the planning was poor, in some ways. But Niall Ferguson has taught us we must think counterfactually to truly understand history. And in this case, a sharp counterfactual analysis makes it clear how much worse things might have been had we not invaded Iraq.

I'd support it again and think claims of inaccurate pre-war analysis are badly overblown.

Just think about that; how much worse the Iraq Civil War would have been if it was Saddam occupying Iraq and not us. You can be sure that if that had happened there would be innocents getting killed by power drills threw the head or gun down in the streets by attack helicopters! Like with science when it comes to foreign policy liberals love their facts. However we must remember there is more to the world than just facts and sometimes ignoring the facts and doing what you wanted to do anyway is the way to go.

[Brother Helge]

Originally Posted by Bobby-Joe

The terrorists HAVE WON!!!

It's such a shame.
George W Bush should have proclaimed a Crusade and followed the old doctrine of "Kill 'em all - let God sort 'em out..."

All the blood from fine decent soldiers in vain. You'd better prepare for the next attack against the US.

[Brother Temperance]

Originally Posted by Bobby-Joe

Blogger takes aim at the critics of the Iraq War "failure"

Right here in the heart of the Liberal beast
http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-debate/61618/

It's easy to lament the things that went wrong in the Iraq war and there is no denying that the planning was poor, in some ways. But Niall Ferguson has taught us we must think counterfactually to truly understand history. And in this case, a sharp counterfactual analysis makes it clear how much worse things might have been had we not invaded Iraq.
Just think about that; how much worse the Iraq Civil War would have been if it was Saddam occupying Iraq and not us. You can be sure that if that had happened there would be innocents getting killed by power drills threw the head or gun down in the streets by attack helicopters! Like with science when it comes to foreign policy liberals love their facts. However we must remember there is more to the world than just facts and sometimes ignoring the facts and doing what you wanted to do anyway is the way to go.

Godly point. One 9/11 was bad enough - if it wasn't for the war deposing Saddam HUSSEIN Obama, he could have ended up doing up to 3 or 4 9/11s every week, along with his ally Obama bin Laden. Think about that, liberals!

[H. Montague Worthington]

Niall Ferguson has taught us we must think counterfactually to truly understand history.

Absolutely. That's why so few Americans are able to understand Hitler's motivations for bombing Pearl Harbor.

[Bobby-Joe]

Originally Posted by H. Montague Worthington

Absolutely. That's why so few Americans are able to understand Hitler's motivations for bombing Pearl Harbor.

It is the same way when you try discussing why Cornwallis attacked the Alamo; they just look at you with those glazed over eyes. Americans have to be the most naive people when it comes to their own history. No wonder a blood thirsty scoundrel like Jimmy Carter was illegally elected President.

[H. Montague Worthington]

Originally Posted by Bobby-Joe

No wonder a blood thirsty scoundrel like Jimmy Carter was illegally elected President.

Indeed.