Obama at Fort Bragg to troops: 'Welcome home!'

What I want to know is, are the troops actually coming home in truthful and literal sense, or are they just moving across the border to a neighboring country? The wording of this article (and every other that I have seen) is carefully worded to give as positive a spin as possible, but doesn't actually come right out and say which.

Officially transferring the flag and leaving the country do not necessarily add up to coming home.

Obama at Fort Bragg to troops: 'Welcome home!'

Obama at Fort Bragg to troops: 'Welcome home!' - Donovan Slack - POLITICO.com

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I thought his speech to the troops was pretty good. Normally I am not impressed, but this one was actually pretty good. His line about how we left the country made me proud that I served.

More PR crap... similar to Bush's victory speech on the aircraft carrier.

Troops that haven't be re-allocated to other fronts have been brought home to prepare for potential civil unrest. Their job is not over.

But... people are ignorant and will take Obama's word for it.

Temporal said:

More PR crap... similar to Bush's victory speech on the aircraft carrier.

Troops that haven't be re-allocated to other fronts have been brought home to prepare for potential civil unrest. Their job is not over.

But... people are ignorant and will take Obama's word for it.

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you make no sense. of course their job isn't over, they have to serve what they signed up for.

It seems that there will be at the very least fewer there. That is good. We are building a huge new and very expensive embassy of some sort there though so we aren't "leaving".

It is pretty rare to do back to back deployments. Will they deploy again? Depends on how much longer they serve. Will they get time in the US for training and recovery? Almost certainly. With Iraq being over, one of the benefits is hopefully a little longer between deployments, which should help retention.

Temporal said:

More PR crap... similar to Bush's victory speech on the aircraft carrier.

Troops that haven't be re-allocated to other fronts have been brought home to prepare for potential civil unrest. Their job is not over.

But... people are ignorant and will take Obama's word for it.

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I hope you will educate yourself on the truth about the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and not continue in ignorance over it.

radcen said:

What I want to know is, are the troops actually coming home in truthful and literal sense, or are they just moving across the border to a neighboring country?.....

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only 4,000 will remain in Kuwait. the VAST majority of troops that were in Iraq 3 years ago, are now home.

the war is over.

American said:

I hope you will educate yourself on the truth about the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and not continue in ignorance over it.

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Who gives a ****? It was still a dumb war banner or no banner.

American said:

I hope you will educate yourself on the truth about the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and not continue in ignorance over it.

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Of all the stuff in the post you quoted, you went for that aspect? The "prepare for civil unrest" part was my favorite nonsense.

Thunder said:

only 4,000 will remain in Kuwait. the VAST majority of troops that were in Iraq 3 years ago, are now home.

the war is over.

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Damn straight. I'm starting to get more Ron Paul'ish. We can't afford to maintain troops in a country for 50 years after we are attacked by that country. We should go in, kill the dictator, establish a democracy and get out. If people don't want to establish a democracy then just bomb the existing government into the 8th century. Then leave.

If we are attacked, unleash the full force of the USA. But either occupy it and call it a 51st state, (or in Obama's case, the 58th state) or level the existing gov't and then get out. This nation building crap has gotta go. Our own nation is falling apart while we spend money we're having to borrow to rebuild other nations who are hostile towards us.

I supported Bush 1's first war which he left unfinished and I supported his son finishing the job. I supported the war in Afghanistan. But 10 years is enough. Either call it part of the USA or GTFO. (I shouldn't have to explain what that acronym means.)