The last base has closed, the last troop departed, promise kept.
Obama may not be doing everything I'd like him to, but certainly the first reason he said he was running for president, to end the war in Iraq, he has made good on.
I know, I know, there are still plenty of nonmilitary U. S. government agents of one kind or another still in Iraq, including I'm sure secret agents. But the military presence and the bases are gone, and that's more than we can say for Japan and Germany after over half a century.
Credit where credit is due. And like Robert has commented, hopefully the money saved from the end of this military presence in Iraq will be used for health and education and infrastructure etc. right here in the USA.
Now if we can get them to close down some bases elsewhere around the world...
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All sounds good to me.
BELOW ARE THIS MORNING'S (12/19/2011) FROM MY EARTHLINK START PAGE. FOUR OUT OF FIVE HEADLINES INVOLVE SHOOTINGS. The obtainability and misuse of guns in our society/culture/nation is obscene, sinful, evil, illegal, against God's will and has zero to do with the intention or meaning of the Second Amendment. NRA and other gun advocates are illegally, immorally, sinfully hiding behind and murderouly distorting and misusing the second amendment for profit and greed, and care nothing, zero, for life or goodness. They are CRIMINALS.
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Four shot at an all night party
LA Daily News 18 hours ago
Shots fired at Chinese consulate ..
Seoul News.Net 1 day ago
No motive in deadly LA-area office shooting
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LA-area freeway torched by tanker truck now open
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Amen brother,
Well Robert, you need to hear the story of my late father and Lally re: gun control. When Lal and I lived in the Spokane, WA area, he fell on by my parents' place when I happened to be there one day. He and my Dad got in a discussion about guns (Dad loathed guns)and Lal got right into supporting him. Then Lal coined what I believed was a classic spontaneous take: "Have you ever heard of a drive-by knifing?" Many times and many years later Dad was still using that line in his arrangements with pro-gun freaks, but he always credited Michael with the line.
~Willy
Obviously should have been "arguments" not "arrangements" in my previous post.
~Willy
Hey Willy, thanks for telling that story. My gratitude to your dad for using it and you for remembering it. And good to see it's not just me typing one thing when meaning another!
Guilty of the same typographitis. Good story. If there weren't so many damn guns and so much gun violence depicted in the media, maybe we'd actually have to talk things out or work them out without guns.
Lal--Money saved from ending our
military adventurism in Iraq applied
to domestic concerns? Not on your life. We have to build more attack submarines to counter the Chinese
aircraft carrier.(There's one, a re-furbished former Soviet Navy
vessel.)
Bob B.
RB calls it as it most likely is, but let's not rule out the possiblity and let's write letters and make phone calls and send emails to our representatives and to the White House -- it's all do-able.
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