Iraq Withdrawal

I actually thought I would never see the day when this monstrous war would come to a conclusion. Like the Afghanistan War there was no clear conclusion point, no real metric that meant a victory was at hand, and no real profound reason why the war occurred and needed to be entered in the first place other than the bizarre desire of a handful of crazed neocons given full reign by a golf loving policy disinterested president supported by a military industrial complex always in need of a massive public money fix and trumpeted by their paid political lackeys in the Senate and in the Congress. And let's not forget the right wing media fog horn pushing patriotism and a boatload full of half truths and lies to the great sheeple farm.

CS Monitor: Iraq withdrawal: With US troops set to exit, 9-year war draws to close

Most of the 39,000 troops still in Iraq should be “home for the holidays,” the president added, although the logistical challenges involved in removing so many soldiers in such a short time could mean the final few will not leave until January.