You ain’t gotta go home…

**jaypeesmith** · 11-17-2008, 05:31 PM

11-17-2008 05:25 PM

…but you gotta get the hell out of Iraq!

With a new president comes new changes.* One of those might have become manifest in the form of a new security agreement approved by Iraq’s Cabinet.* The deal, still pending a vote by Iraq’s parliament, calls for all U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq’s cities and towns by the end of June 2009 and all troops to be out of the country by the end of 2011.

However, the most interesting piece of this proposal to me is the provision that all troops leave regardless of conditions on the ground.* If you remember, President Bush has long pushed the notion that we’ll leave based on conditions on the ground.* Well, the Iraqi Cabinet is saying that whatever those conditions are, they’ll handle them — a move that is just fine with me.

Again, this agreement still needs the approval of the Iraqi Parliament and there are some who don’t want an agreement that keeps the U.S. in Iraq for the next three years.* So, there are still significant hurdles to this deal.* But, hopefully, there’s some light at the end of the tunnel for the men and women sacrificing so much of themselves in Iraq.

**angeladc** · 11-18-2008, 10:51 AM

i'm totally for this.bring our troops home so we can stop wasting money on this this pointless situation

**TUCKER** · 11-18-2008, 02:36 PM

A full military withdrawal is probably what any one who doesn't have an interest in that part of the world wants. We will never be totally out of there though because of our commitments to present and future allies. Our military presence might be gone though and thats a good thing.

Considering the amount of money and lives we've wasted and spent in that part of the world, our withdrawal proves that it was a total waste and that is the shame of this whole thing. True we never should've been there, but why would the American people allow a snake like Bush to take office the way he did in 2000 and then turn around in 2004 and allow him to retain the office in a "damn near" landslide? That should tell us all something. Now in 2008, the new president is about to take over, after winning the election almost unopposed according to the final count! What the hell is going on in modern american politics, the world may never know.

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