By Robert Montoya
United States withdraws its troops from Iraq.
"Tonight announced that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq is over. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over and the Iraqi people now have primary responsibility for maintaining security in their country. "These are the words of Barack Obama on Tuesday in his address to the nation, which was fulfilled his promise by to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by August 2010, made a year ago. Very early, because there are less than two months to these vital elections in the United States which will elect 435 members of the House of Representatives a 100-member Senate, 38 governors, plus numerous other local officials.
"Americans who have served in Iraq have completed all the missions entrusted to them. Have toppled a regime that terrorized his own people, "Obama said, praising again, as it did upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, his country had carried out what he called" just war. "
The words of President of the United States remind others, made more than seven years earlier. Exactly were those on 1 May 2003, six weeks after the start of the bombing and invasion of Iraq by the United States and United Kingdom. The gave the President George W. Bush, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, and clothing to the Top Gun for the occasion: "In this battle we have fought for the cause of freedom and peace in the world. Our nation and our coalition are proud of this achievement. However, this is you, the members of the U.S. armed forces, who conducted it. Their courage, their willingness to confront the dangers of their country and each of you made this day possible, "Bush told the many sailors present, under a large sign that read" Mission Accomplished. " "Thanks to you, the tyrant has fallen and Iraq is free", he said, and praised U.S. armed forces to help rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself instead of hospitals and schools for the people. "
Between one and another speech seven years and four months. A period in which the bombing and collateral damage caused by Allied attacks, ended in complete devastation of Iraq that had begun in 1991 with Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War.
During that period of seven years and four months separating the speeches of Bush and Obama, were destroyed more than half of Iraqi schools and hospitals, many of its bridges and roads, facilities electrical infrastructure.
More than 100,000 civilians have died in attacks in the U.S. and its allies and the internal sectarian war unleashed after the start of the invasion, joining the other hundreds of thousands killed during the Gulf War launched by Bush and 12 years of cruel embargo that followed.
More than two million people saw their homes destroyed or fled from them because of the war, half of whom sought refuge abroad.
The Iraqi people are freed from a dictator but he destroyed the country, bled internally, he imposed a corrupt and authoritarian government, a constitution retrograde where the woman is more delayed than before, where U.S. multinationals and their allies share the control of its economy, especially its large oil and reconstruction.
Obama knows that despite the withdrawal of 110,000 of his men, has left 50,000 troops, as fighting as they went. Because the war in Iraq continues and yet even more people die in Afghanistan, even though you want to submit the withdrawal as a victory for democracy. The troops are, in principle, be quartered in their big bases and will take care to instruct more than 600,000 men in the Iraqi army and police but is expected to act in case this being overwhelmed. And what will be done.
Obama has also approved the action of at least 7,000 men enrolled in the "security companies" contracted by the Pentagon euphemism for mercenaries to specialize in spying, location and execution of enemies.
Obama is also trying to bury in the time promised, the end of 2011, another great war that Bush inherited, the one in Afghanistan, but his own generals and Iraqi generals will repeat again and again, even if one removed and Stanley McCrhystal, so to speak publicly, that if ago, the country will fall into the hands of the Taliban. For almost nine years into the war in Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalists are stronger than ever. Apply its laws to blood and fire in large areas of the country, capitalizing politically growing hatred among the people towards the corrupt government of Hamid Karzai and his fearsome warlords, who are controlling international trade in opium succulent.
The global financial crisis, which affects the full United States and European allies that backed him in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it affects the military budgets of all of them and hence also the urge to cut costs and for fast start filling the bags. Need, though, that there is some control of the situation by local governments, at whatever cost, both to retire to do business. Because this is it, that Iraq will increase its current production of 2.4 million barrels a day to report earnings more and more multinationals exploit their oil and that Afghanistan can soon also start extracting oil and other minerals.
days ago American geologists found a bag equivalent to 1,800 million barrels between the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Shiberghan, according to Jawad Omar, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Mines. According to This officer, for six months would begin to explode also several gold mines, lithium and other minerals. According to The New York Times, these findings may make the wretched Afghanistan, "the Saudi Arabia of lithium."
Do you understand why you can not compare these failures the U.S. military and its allies in the war in Vietnam as is done daily so blithely?
phased out as heroes, is not actually going to these theaters of war with empty hands, not leave it tied. Or does anyone believe for a moment that the invaders intended to release and let these countries selflessly democratic and sovereign governments?.
"Tonight announced that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq is over. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over and the Iraqi people now have primary responsibility for maintaining security in their country. "These are the words of Barack Obama on Tuesday in his address to the nation, which was fulfilled his promise by to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by August 2010, made a year ago. Very early, because there are less than two months to these vital elections in the United States which will elect 435 members of the House of Representatives a 100-member Senate, 38 governors, plus numerous other local officials.
"Americans who have served in Iraq have completed all the missions entrusted to them. Have toppled a regime that terrorized his own people, "Obama said, praising again, as it did upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, his country had carried out what he called" just war. "
The words of President of the United States remind others, made more than seven years earlier. Exactly were those on 1 May 2003, six weeks after the start of the bombing and invasion of Iraq by the United States and United Kingdom. The gave the President George W. Bush, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, and clothing to the Top Gun for the occasion: "In this battle we have fought for the cause of freedom and peace in the world. Our nation and our coalition are proud of this achievement. However, this is you, the members of the U.S. armed forces, who conducted it. Their courage, their willingness to confront the dangers of their country and each of you made this day possible, "Bush told the many sailors present, under a large sign that read" Mission Accomplished. " "Thanks to you, the tyrant has fallen and Iraq is free", he said, and praised U.S. armed forces to help rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself instead of hospitals and schools for the people. "
Between one and another speech seven years and four months. A period in which the bombing and collateral damage caused by Allied attacks, ended in complete devastation of Iraq that had begun in 1991 with Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War.
During that period of seven years and four months separating the speeches of Bush and Obama, were destroyed more than half of Iraqi schools and hospitals, many of its bridges and roads, facilities electrical infrastructure.
More than 100,000 civilians have died in attacks in the U.S. and its allies and the internal sectarian war unleashed after the start of the invasion, joining the other hundreds of thousands killed during the Gulf War launched by Bush and 12 years of cruel embargo that followed.
More than two million people saw their homes destroyed or fled from them because of the war, half of whom sought refuge abroad.
The Iraqi people are freed from a dictator but he destroyed the country, bled internally, he imposed a corrupt and authoritarian government, a constitution retrograde where the woman is more delayed than before, where U.S. multinationals and their allies share the control of its economy, especially its large oil and reconstruction.
Obama knows that despite the withdrawal of 110,000 of his men, has left 50,000 troops, as fighting as they went. Because the war in Iraq continues and yet even more people die in Afghanistan, even though you want to submit the withdrawal as a victory for democracy. The troops are, in principle, be quartered in their big bases and will take care to instruct more than 600,000 men in the Iraqi army and police but is expected to act in case this being overwhelmed. And what will be done.
Obama has also approved the action of at least 7,000 men enrolled in the "security companies" contracted by the Pentagon euphemism for mercenaries to specialize in spying, location and execution of enemies.
Obama is also trying to bury in the time promised, the end of 2011, another great war that Bush inherited, the one in Afghanistan, but his own generals and Iraqi generals will repeat again and again, even if one removed and Stanley McCrhystal, so to speak publicly, that if ago, the country will fall into the hands of the Taliban. For almost nine years into the war in Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalists are stronger than ever. Apply its laws to blood and fire in large areas of the country, capitalizing politically growing hatred among the people towards the corrupt government of Hamid Karzai and his fearsome warlords, who are controlling international trade in opium succulent.
The global financial crisis, which affects the full United States and European allies that backed him in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it affects the military budgets of all of them and hence also the urge to cut costs and for fast start filling the bags. Need, though, that there is some control of the situation by local governments, at whatever cost, both to retire to do business. Because this is it, that Iraq will increase its current production of 2.4 million barrels a day to report earnings more and more multinationals exploit their oil and that Afghanistan can soon also start extracting oil and other minerals.
days ago American geologists found a bag equivalent to 1,800 million barrels between the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Shiberghan, according to Jawad Omar, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Mines. According to This officer, for six months would begin to explode also several gold mines, lithium and other minerals. According to The New York Times, these findings may make the wretched Afghanistan, "the Saudi Arabia of lithium."
Do you understand why you can not compare these failures the U.S. military and its allies in the war in Vietnam as is done daily so blithely?
phased out as heroes, is not actually going to these theaters of war with empty hands, not leave it tied. Or does anyone believe for a moment that the invaders intended to release and let these countries selflessly democratic and sovereign governments?.
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