tonight president obama will say that the war in iraq is over but...?

The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld invasion of a sleeping Iraq in 2003 was ILLEGAL---an act of TERRORISM on the part of the U.S. The publicity firm hired by the Bush/Cheney regime (and by his daddy's before him), Hill & Knowlton, were assigned the task of artificially painting Saddam Hussein (our best buddy in the Middle East and our CIA dupe) as a "villain" to the American people (uncovered by "60 Minutes" during Bush/Quayle years) in order to grab an ill-gotten "foothold" in the Middle East for the oil. Iraq never once attacked the U.S.

This being said, President Obama inherited a multi-layered MESS that included two wars, one of them illegal that had alienated most of our allies and the other, in Afghanistan, very poorly manned or waged; the GOP-deregulation-caused COLLAPSE of our housing and credit markets from which we still struggle to recover; fudged books that had kept the costs of both Bush/Cheney wars off the budget books; the MELTDOWN of our entire financial system, again caused by right-wingers' penchant for DEREGULATING everything in sight; the loss of our nation's MANUFACTURING JOBS BASE through GOP outsourcing...

During the 2008 campaign, then-Candidate Obama said he would be drawing down troops in Iraq gradually and beefing up the troops in Afghanistan, both of which he did. The last combat troops in Iraq left as of August 31, 2010, crossing the Kuwait border for their flight home. There were about 40,000 contingency troops that were sent to Iraq for logistics (dismantling the multi-billion-dollar U.S. bases set up at taxpayer expense by the Bush regime), for intelligence, and for training, but to all intents and purposes, the combat portion was over in 2010 as Candidate Obama had promised. Malaki, Iraq's new leader, had asked that these contingency troops remain, but now President Obama has announced these remaining American soldiers will return by the end of this year, with only about 135 remaining to guard our American Embassy in Iraq. More than 6,500 U.S. troops lost their lives and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis died---all due to the egomaniacal obsession of the Bush/Cheney war-crimes-prone administration. Is this truly "a victory"? Our warriors valiantly went where they were sent and fought bravely, but at what cost? I hope President Obama credits the Iraqi people when he pays a well-deserved tribute to our fighting men and women, but to claim we "won" an illegal war---where is the honor in that?

The Iraqi army cannot stand up to Iran, and Iran will invade Iraq. Will we go back in?

Our combat troops left Vietnam in September 1973, Saigon fell in April of 1975, and the libs still say "We lost".

Personally, I want to leave Iraq, let the Shiites and Sunnis kill each other, Inshallah!

Go ahead, eat your hat, then your words.

It is a constant source of amazement to me how quickly things turned bad after we stopped following the Powell Doctrine. There is no winning a conflict with no real goal. Sadam is dead and that was the only real goal. Everything else is collateral damage from using a Military solution to a political problem.

If he gets your vote simply by saying we won in Iraq then you're voting for the wrong reasons. This is a political move. He of course has to add the words"as promised" when he says the troops will be withdrawn by year end. How irritating is that...he doesn't do anything that isn't politically motivated. It's all about him, all the time.

What Obama has to say means little to me, I always expect the wort from him.

Praise our Military for the treacherous job done so well. Screw Obama.

Yes, let's just declare victory and come home.

Even as the economy enters stagflation? (1970's round 2?)

We won when we got Hussein, but then Bush had to keep going.