It's quite the news this week. The "last" combat brigade has left Iraq. The war is over! Yay!
Or...
Not quite.
We still have 50K troops in Iraq, and they're now called "Advise and Assist Brigades". Snort. Whatever. The point that the media seems to have missed is this: Have the insurgents and al-Qaeda withdrawn the last of their combat troops? No?
Hmmm... then I guess the war isn't over (sorry about the timetable), and that brings us to one last salient point. When the bullets and IEDs and other explosive munitions fly between people, it doesn't matter if they're called "combat" troops or not... it's still combat.
War doesn't end because of the press release announcing it's over... it ends when both sides agree it's over. Whether by treaty, defeat, annihilation, whatever.
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It will never be over with the type of 'people' trying to rationalize with.. there is NO rationalizing unfortunately! Am I glad we are going to leave Iraq? Sure! Are they going to send our troops elsewhere in same locale.. Yea.. Is it right? Not necessarily.. But I love you troops!
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