Ted Rall for May 30, 2014
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Obama wants to leave 9.800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014. (Barack Obama: We'll be gone after 2014. Just like we said! Except for a teensy, weensy little "contingency force" because you never know! And then, in 2016, they'll be gone too! Except for "security assistance forces." Hey, got any beer?
^So was I, in ’91 because GHW screwed up and told Saddam to take the territory he was claiming, as Bush just called the buildup in Iraq an “Arab to Arab thing”, and he let the invasion of Kuwait proceed, could have stopped it.
After a decade of bombing, the lies to claim every true report was false, made "W"s folks either double dumb, or double greedy. “Let’s sell ’em some showers that will really light ’em up” was just pretty standard Halliburton, KBR quality control, but they still made a bundle.