Gritchik rox royally sometimes…
httpv://gritchik.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/a-very-conservative-christmas-message/
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Scribbling some perspective on Canada, Ottawa and whatever else crosses my mind…
The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border to neighbouring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief.
Their exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly nine years and left Iraq shattered, with troubling questions lingering over whether the Arab nation will remain a steadfast U.S. ally.
The mission cost nearly 4,500 American and well more than 100,000 Iraqi lives and $800 billion from the U.S. Treasury. The question of whether it was worth it all is yet unanswered.
I have never been in support of this war and am glad that no more American lives will be lost because of the decision made by that moron named Dubya.
BUT, I will say this: the decision to pull out does vindicate to a degree those who said that the US was NOT in Iraq for the oil or for some ilk of empire building. Maybe under Bush, this was a motive, but I really think that since Obama was elected that they have been there for the right reasons – to help the Iraqi people.
Oh, and they also figured out that this war was unwinnable.
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