Thursday, July 28, 2011

We'll Have Those Troops Home by Christmas

We’ll eventually have to just declare victory and leave if Obama’s going to cut spending in the Middle East “defense” budget.

At least 12 people have been killed and 28 more wounded after two bombs exploded in the Iraqi city of
Tikrit, as police and soldiers were collecting their salaries at a local bank, according to a police official.

[...]

Iraqi forces say they can contain internal threats but acknowledge they need more training to plug capability gaps.

  alJazeera

How’s that for a self-contradictory statement?

As US troops prepare to leave Iraq in six months time, the country will be left with no effective defence from external threats.

The army is ill-equipped, with no Iraqi pilots train to fly modern jet fighters and no missile defence system.


Iraq currently does not possess any such aircraft, and if it were to purchase such planes it would take two to three years to fill a single squadron of pilots.

  alJazeera

And in Afghanistan…

Suicide bombers armed with guns have stormed government offices in the capital of Uruzgan, a province in southern Afghanistan, the Reuters news agency reports.

The compounds of both the provincial governor and the police chief were targeted during Thursday's attack by up to six bombers, the reports said.

  alJazeera

Oh, yeah, we’re almost there.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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