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Title: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: General Battuta on August 18, 2010, 07:32:03 pm
Huh, I didn't realize this was happening already. (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38744453/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/)

or am i dumb or something
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Nuke on August 18, 2010, 07:59:00 pm
now who are we going to kill next?
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Turambar on August 18, 2010, 07:59:53 pm
Do we have money for killing people?  I propose we stop killing people until we have more money, then we can go back to killing people.  Or go to space.  Space is cool.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 18, 2010, 08:01:46 pm
Now if you die, it was a non-combat injury!
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: iamzack on August 18, 2010, 08:20:32 pm
How long until secret combat ops end?
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: General Battuta on August 18, 2010, 08:26:31 pm
How long until secret combat ops end?

I think those guys are all busy in Pakistan!
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Sushi on August 18, 2010, 09:18:40 pm
Huh, I didn't realize this was happening already. (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38744453/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/)

or am i dumb or something

It's more or less been the schedule since... what? Late 2007?

But yeah, sort of sneaks up on you. :)
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Unknown Target on August 19, 2010, 02:41:49 am
Pretty cool. Hopefully now we'll be able to bring some money back in.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Kosh on August 19, 2010, 02:50:20 am
I doubt it. I've got the sneaking suspicion at least some of those guys are going to be re-directed to our other endless war.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Aardwolf on August 19, 2010, 02:57:50 am
I doubt it. I've got the sneaking suspicion at least some of those guys are going to be re-directed to our other endless war.

Which? There are several.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Dilmah G on August 19, 2010, 03:11:03 am
Afghanistan might benefit from an additional mentoring task force staffed by these guys when they're rotated back.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Nuke on August 19, 2010, 06:01:22 am
we need a new country to invade.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Snail on August 19, 2010, 06:24:31 am
we need a new country to invade.
I'll name a few. Iran, North Korea, Somalia, Pakistan, Canada (because Axem lives there).
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 19, 2010, 06:36:56 am
we need a new country to invade.

Alaska.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Kosh on August 19, 2010, 06:44:21 am
we need a new country to invade.

Alaska.


 We will if these guys succeed (http://www.akip.org/)
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Turambar on August 19, 2010, 07:01:29 am
we need a new country to invade.

Israel.  Rogue nation with lots of WMDs, a history of supporting terrorism, and nuclear capability. Fits the bill, right?
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Dilmah G on August 19, 2010, 07:07:25 am
So I finally read the article.

Quote
At one point, the United States had blanketed the country with nearly a quarter-million-strong combat force; by the end of the month, Obama said, about 50,000 U.S. troops will remain in the country, in a non-combat role providing support and training for the Iraqi military.
I think that's the real key here. The entire thing rests on how well these 50,000 men and women do their jobs, and how hard the Iraqi Military want to work. If Iraq remains in its current state, we'll have left it with a countdown timer until we'll be forced to come back here to what may be an even worse Iraq.

Unfortunately, this isn't something that can be swept under the rug once we've left.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Galemp on August 19, 2010, 08:51:23 am
That was very quiet...
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Dilmah G on August 19, 2010, 08:56:27 am
Well I think the article said it was intentional. After all, guess whose going to be putting dates in their diaries when they hear about massed convoys of US vehicles on the roads out of the country? :P
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Titan on August 19, 2010, 08:59:37 am
we need a new country to invade.

Alaska.

Could you wait 18 days?
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: StarSlayer on August 19, 2010, 09:01:38 am
Well I think the article said it was intentional. After all, guess whose going to be putting dates in their diaries when they hear about massed convoys of US vehicles on the roads out of the country? :P

Pushcart vendors?
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Flipside on August 19, 2010, 04:05:51 pm
I sense that 'Combat Operations will now cease' in the much the same way that the 'War was Over' less than a month after it started...
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Nuke on August 19, 2010, 08:12:32 pm
we need a new country to invade.

Alaska.

Could you wait 18 days?

were next to russia, so we invade you
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: S-99 on August 20, 2010, 04:15:30 am
we need a new country to invade.

Alaska.


 We will if these guys succeed (http://www.akip.org/)
The grammar on that site is horrible. Too many times the word "then" was used where "than" should have been. And several words that were supposed to be plural are not. If the AIP does take over, i will wait for invasion, and make them run a spell check at gun point.

EDIT: I mean rewrite at gunpoint and not spellcheck.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: Mefustae on August 20, 2010, 04:16:05 am
I sense that 'Combat Operations will now cease' in the much the same way that the 'War was Over' less than a month after it started...
Indeed. I just saw a report on the pull-out, flatly stating the last combat troops to be exiting the country. Then, right at the end, "five thousand troops will remain in the country for training purposes."

Don't think of this as an end of the fighting, rather just an end to direct reporting on the fighting.
Title: Re: US ends combat ops in Iraq
Post by: mxlm on August 20, 2010, 05:03:16 am
we need a new country to invade.
I think key to our future endeavors will be the understanding that if we skip the occupation part we can fit even more invasions into out schedule. Why stop with one?