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catman · Joined: 18 Jul 2004

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The Happy Warrior · Joined: 10 Feb 2010

Alright, mises, you're right. Nothing that you wrote is anti-semitic.

I still think, and Big Bird agrees, that you should the word Zionist. That word encapsulates an ideology that extends beyond Judaism. The 'Jews finance evil' meme is a very old one and associated with some bad stuff, so it sets off alarm bells.

You're right that the wars need to end.

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

As if I am really surprised...

Published on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by the Inter Press Service

Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq

by Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011.

Obama declared in a speech to disabled U.S. veterans in Atlanta that "America's combat mission in Iraq" would end by the end of August, to be replaced by a mission of "supporting and training Iraqi security forces".

That statement was in line with the pledge he had made on Feb. 27, 2009, when he said, "Let me say this as plainly as I can: by Aug. 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end."

In the sentence preceding that pledge, however, he had said, "I have chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months." Obama said nothing in his speech Monday about withdrawing "combat brigades" or "combat troops" from Iraq until the end of 2011.

Even the concept of "ending the U.S. combat mission" may be highly misleading, much like the concept of "withdrawing U.S. combat brigades" was in 2009.

Under the administration's definition of the concept, combat operations will continue after August 2010, but will be defined as the secondary role of U.S. forces in Iraq. The primary role will be to "advise and assist" Iraqi forces.

An official who spoke with IPS on condition that his statements would be attributed to a "senior administration official" acknowledged that the 50,000 U.S. troops remaining in Iraq beyond the deadline will have the same combat capabilities as the combat brigades that have been withdrawn.

The official also acknowledged that the troops will engage in some combat but suggested that the combat would be "mostly" for defensive purposes.

That language implied that there might be circumstances in which U.S. forces would carry out offensive operations as well.

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Beavis Jones · Joined: 05 Aug 2010

How to stop the wars?

hehehehehehehe.....let everyone get laid.......hehehehehehe

hehehehehe....getting laid is cool....hehehehehehe