{"id":188462,"date":"2010-09-21T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/21\/non-combat-role-my-ass-part-xvii\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:20:00","slug":"non-combat-role-my-ass-part-xvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/21\/non-combat-role-my-ass-part-xvii\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Combat Role My Ass, Part XVII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s claim that combat troops are of Iraq <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2010\/09\/20\/soldiers-view-of-iraq-combat-end\/\">is a lie<\/a>, as is made clear by a letter from a soldier:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cThe reason I\u2019m sending this out is because I have had a few people ask if I left Iraq early because all of the combat troops are out of Iraq and I wanted to let everyone know the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>Take our Brigade for example.  We were originally called a HBCT (Heavy Brigade Combat Team).  Well, since Obama said he would pull all of the \u201ccombat\u201d troops out by Aug, all they did before we left was change our name from a HBCT to an AAB (Advise and Assist Brigade).  We have the same personnel\/equipment layout as before and are doing the same missions.  The ONLY difference is that they changed our name from a HBCT to an AAB and that\u2019s how we pulled all of the \u2018combat\u2019 troops out.<\/p>\n<p>There are other Brigades just like ours that are doing the same missions that are still over here.  So anyway now you know the REAL story, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m not coming back early.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama does not realize that being commander-in-chief of the military means to command.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he is dealing with a military which, like pretty much all militaries, is culturally incapable of seeing a conflict beyond the prism of &#8220;winning&#8221;, and so by compromising, we simply dig ourselves deeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s claim that combat troops are of Iraq is a lie, as is made clear by a letter from a soldier: \u201cThe reason I\u2019m sending this out is because I have had a few people ask if I left Iraq early because all of the combat troops are out of Iraq and I wanted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1063,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-iraq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}