There won’t be as many troops coming home by Midterms as Republicans would like
The US was going to withdraw troops from Iraq in time for the midterm elections. Sounds like a great ploy to increase political capital for those supporting the war.
Well, they canned that idea.
Another example of a never-ending war.
Is there enough room for a memorial for the Iraq war on the national mall?
Actually. Lets go forward with this. I really haven’t talked about my view about Iraq yet.
I originally found the war amusing. The army going through, the bombs over Baghdad (good, overplayed, song by Outkast.) I have no idea why, and I am ashamed of it, but that type of stuff is just “cool.” Until you look at what it is actually doing. Each bomb is killing somebody (hopefully not, that is what bomb shelters are for) and in retrospect I feel very bad about it.
Now I see I was just plain wrong. I thought it was going to be a quick sweep through. Get him out of power, and get out of there for the country to figure itself out. Which is probably what we should have done. No “instilling democracy” bullshit, just get the dictator out and let the rest figure itself out.
Of course, that was the same thinking everybody had. Rush in, rush out. Well, life doesn’t work that way.
Now I see that I was wrong, that it involves more. But our army isn’t a global police force. It wasn’t designed for that.
So I guess I am confused. Leave 30k troops there to secure Baghdad and bring the other 100k home.
