I believe that was the unwelcome advice some folks were giving at least two or three years ago.
The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq in what has been deemed the largest movement of manpower and equipment in modern military history — shipping out more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment from tanks to antennas along with a force the size of a small city.The massive operation already under way a year ahead of the Aug. 31, 2010 deadline to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq shows the U.S. military has picked up the pace of a planned exit from Iraq that could cost billions.
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First out, Brown said, will be the early withdrawal of an Army combat brigade of about 5,000. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said a brigade would leave by the end of the year, months ahead of schedule, if violence in Iraq did not escalate beyond current levels.
But it did escalate. Oh well, don’t tell.
Not since Vietnam has the U.S. withdrawn so many troops and so much equipment with a looming deadline.
Yes, some of us remember that final fiasco.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
this reminds me...recently i saw (where escapes me at the moment and i'm too lazy to look for it) that there are now 'vietnam war renactors'. that must be fun.
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why on earth would anyone want to re-enact that? well, really, when you think about any war reenactments, it makes even less sense than the war itself. and it's rather primitive, isn't it? and that makes me think i know why hillbillies don't believe in evolution. they haven't evolved. (i better be careful, because i can actually imagine both of my sons reenacting.)
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