Quote Originally Posted by RetiredJedi View Post
I am glad to see my fellow Soldiers coming home. Everyone seems to forget that this was a timeline that was agreed upon back before the new administration came to Washington.
My problem is the fact that our top military commanders say it isn't quite time to leave yet and there are reports that we are bringing home the troops but increasing the civilian contractors there????
I completely agree with you Jedi and have also been there & done that. Being Active Duty myself for the last 14 years, I'm really not enjoying the feeling that all of our men and women who have died in Iraq is for what amounts to almost nothing. For anyone to think that us leaving a country, we basically demolished, in disrepair is 'a responsible act' - then they are just as ignorant as the politicians who made the deal to leave without ‘finishing the job’ in the first place.

The War on Terror is far from over and take it for what it's worth, but as long as there are countries like Iran, N. Korea, and China with power to invoke terror - the War on Terror will never be over. Our former Commander in Chief clearly wasn't the brightest individual when he allowed his staff to come up with that title.

As for the monetary cost associated with Operation Iraqi Freedom, the economic growth during the initial occupation and over the last 9 years has made up for the dollar amount spent for the US to be involved. The economic hardship we're facing is due in fact to the poor leadership of our politicians and overall greed of Big Business - Banks & Wall Street included. For anyone thinking the war efforts cost the US too much money should do a little bit of research on how military campaigns actually promote industrial & economic growth.