{"id":188652,"date":"2010-08-18T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/18\/breaking-obama-breaks-iraq-withdrawal-promise\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:17:00","slug":"breaking-obama-breaks-iraq-withdrawal-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/18\/breaking-obama-breaks-iraq-withdrawal-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Obama Breaks Iraq Withdrawal Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news is out, and the State Department has announced that they have declared victory but we will not be leaving<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You see, there are no more combat troops, just, “50,000 advisers,” along with something like 85,000 mercenaries<\/del> contractors, or about 1 per every 200 Iraqis.<\/p>\n

And this is what these folks will do<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So will all the troops be coming home? Hopefully, but don’t bet on it. Recall that US troops remain in South Korea, six decades after the Korean War.<\/p>\n

The 50,000 US troops left until 2011 will supposedly “advise and assist” and perform “anti-terrorism” missions and training. To this old war correspondent and military historian, that sounds an awful lot like the British Empires employment of native troops under white officers.<\/p>\n

These remaining rebranded US “training” troops will likely be six armor-heavy combat brigades, backed by warplanes from US air bases in the Gulf. A US brigade withdrawn from Iraq will go to neighboring Kuwait. Most of the rest will transfer to Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, he doesn’t have to get through Congress, he can just do this, and he won’t.<\/p>\n

I called this 2 weeks ago, and said that it would be a phony withdrawal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I was correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news is out, and the State Department has announced that they have declared victory but we will not be leaving. You see, there are no more combat troops, just, “50,000 advisers,” along with something like 85,000 mercenaries contractors, or about 1 per every 200 Iraqis. And this is what these folks will do: So …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1051,1063,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-hypocrisy","category-iraq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188652"}],"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=188652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}