gopher321: Mr. Panetta acknowledged that "the cost was high - in blood and treasure of the United States, and also for the Iraqi people. But those lives have not been lost in vain - they gave birth to an independent, free and sovereign Iraq."

Arr, matey. Don't you be worryin' yer head about that lad. There be plenty o' swag around these lands ye can acquire from other brown-skinned victim, er, peoples...

This can't be true. I was assured that the invasion would cost about $50 billion and that oil revenues would pay for the reconstruction.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

well, we are kinda almost bankrupt...

Headso: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

well, we are kinda almost bankrupt...

Nonsense, all that Iraqi oil profits paid for the whole thing.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

This doesn't even make any sense. In the words of the Virgin Mary, come again?

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

Well played. 10/10

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

I would if I hadn't lost both arms to an IED.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

If spending over $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of dead and injured is "ending well", I don't think I want to see your definition of "ending poorly".

"Welcome Home. Now get your @ss to Syria"

Six straight responses to sarcasm. That has got to be one of the most brilliantly concise obvious trolls in the history of the site.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

Con't believe how many people responded to this. That's how it's done.

10/10

Wait a sec... so they're tooting their horns over a "sovereign and independent Iraq"? I know Saddam was a shiatty leader and an evil guy, but Iraq was independent and sovereign before they invaded, unless there's some definitions of independent and sovereign I'm unaware of.

leviosaurus:

Con't Can't believe how many people responded to this. That's how it's done.

10/10

/Facepalm

bulldg4life: Six straight responses to sarcasm. That has got to be one of the most brilliantly concise obvious trolls in the history of the site.

I'd say it's more of an indictment of the lethal purity of derp that's unleashed here on a regular basis. If I didn't recognize Eddie from other threads posting reasonable opinions I wouldn't have questioned such a statement too much.

For a war who never should have begun, that took far, far too long to end.

"Although Thursday's ceremony marked the end of the war, the military still has two bases in Iraq and roughly 4,000 troops, including several hundred who attended the ceremony. At the height of the war in 2007, there were 505 bases and more than 170,000 troops."

That's astounding.

1 base per 335 sqmi... down to 1 base per 84,500 sqmi in 4 years. Just... logistically speaking, I'm impressed.

qorkfiend: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

If spending over $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of dead and injured is "ending well", I don't think I want to see your definition of "ending poorly".

A repulsing counterattack that leaves miles of military wreckage strewn across the battlefield, crippling our military forces and resulting in retaliatory strikes on American soil.

DeathByGeekSquad: qorkfiend: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

If spending over $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of dead and injured is "ending well", I don't think I want to see your definition of "ending poorly".

A repulsing counterattack that leaves miles of military wreckage strewn across the battlefield, crippling our military forces and resulting in retaliatory strikes on American soil.

it'll happen soon enough, but it'll be not the army, but the navy. sooner or later somoene will "pearl harbor ii electric boogaloo" a carrier battlegroup with a missile attack and we will finally realize that our reliance on that technology which was made highly vulnerable 50 years ago once missiles got good has been used on bought time since vietnam.

the US is very, very lucky we have not fought a single foe with a decent airforce since the Luftwaffe and Imperial Japanese Airforce.

The US is so used to being able to project its military force quickly for a long time because of carriers. sooner or later somoene's going to do their best to remove this capability and then things will change pretty quick.

i would be willing to bet if the US attacks iran, theyd counter hit our ships in the gulf, which couldnt be that hard to find. not like its a huge ocean or anything.

One down

Iraq
Afghanistan
Drugs
Choice
Gay Marriage

the cost was high - in blood and treasure of the United States...

Professor! What's another word for pirate treasure?

Guidette Frankentits: One down

Iraq
Afghanistan
Drugs
Choice
Gay Marriage

you forgot one:
Poverty

46 years, 250000 dead, $12 trillion spent, no end in sight.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

This is how things end well? Are you a cretin?

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.



Folks, this is how it's done.

Bring my friends "children " (I know they are not children as they are adults in their own right) home safe and undamaged. To me they are boys and a girl, I would like to see them sometime soon.

/nothing more pertinent to say.

Did we win?

ipsofacto: Did we win?

No Virginia, no one won this.

Father_Jack: DeathByGeekSquad: qorkfiend: Eddie Adams from Torrance: I guess all you libtards who were crying wolf in 2003 about how "this will not end well" can just wipe the egg off your faces now.

If spending over $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of dead and injured is "ending well", I don't think I want to see your definition of "ending poorly".

A repulsing counterattack that leaves miles of military wreckage strewn across the battlefield, crippling our military forces and resulting in retaliatory strikes on American soil.

it'll happen soon enough, but it'll be not the army, but the navy. sooner or later somoene will "pearl harbor ii electric boogaloo" a carrier battlegroup with a missile attack and we will finally realize that our reliance on that technology which was made highly vulnerable 50 years ago once missiles got good has been used on bought time since vietnam.

the US is very, very lucky we have not fought a single foe with a decent airforce since the Luftwaffe and Imperial Japanese Airforce.

The US is so used to being able to project its military force quickly for a long time because of carriers. sooner or later somoene's going to do their best to remove this capability and then things will change pretty quick.

i would be willing to bet if the US attacks iran, theyd counter hit our ships in the gulf, which couldnt be that hard to find. not like its a huge ocean or anything.

The US Navy has been training against massed missile attacks since they were shown to be highly vulnerable to them 50 years ago. We have an entire class of ships invented and designed from the ground up to contend with this threat, not to mention the air wing.

A CBG has one single greatest vulnerability and its under water, not above it. Which is why a CBG is never without at least one companion attack boat. Ever.

It's nice that Obama kept to the withdraw schedule negotiated by the Bush administration, and is only withdrawing all the troops because the Iraqis wouldn't give immunity from prosecution to them.

ipsofacto: Did we win?

Yes, yes we did.


We're Iran, right?

ipsofacto: Did we win?

In the sense that the Iraqi people now have a government that would generally rather have them live productive, tax-paying lives than rape and murder them wholesale for the amusement of a small collection of psychopaths, yes.

In the sense of pulling it off without a massive hit to our own resources, no. The reason the recession has a government finance fail layered on top of it is basically Iraq.

Whether the one is worth the other is really still open to debate, I admit that I find the people against our intervention without reservation a bit sociopathic and those wholeheartedly for it more than a bit stupid. Really a mixed bag no matter what angle you look at it from.

Jim_Callahan: I admit that I find the people against our intervention without reservation a bit sociopathic and those wholeheartedly for it more than a bit stupid.

Well, the important thing is that you've found a way to pretend to be superior to both.

/You're from TEXAS, you cretin.

Jim_Callahan: Whether the one is worth the other is really still open to debate, I admit that I find the people against our intervention without reservation a bit sociopathic and those wholeheartedly for it more than a bit stupid. Really a mixed bag no matter what angle you look at it from.

You make it sound like the Iraqis are better off somehow because we invaded. I find THAT view sociopathic. The loss of life, and infrastucture, for the Iraqis was terrible.