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Title: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: 240 is Back on August 18, 2010, 04:59:19 PM
Mission accomplished?
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Dos Equis on August 18, 2010, 05:29:25 PM
We still have "combat" troops in Iraq. 
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: 240 is Back on August 18, 2010, 05:53:05 PM
We still have "combat" troops in Iraq. 

in a training capacity and to guard all the cool bases we have there.

But the last US brigade combat team just left.

granted, like s. korea, we'll have 50k men there for the next 100 years, no doubt.  But thank goodness, they won't be playing referee for a civil war anymore.
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: tonymctones on August 18, 2010, 05:59:55 PM
good to see them leave but I wouldnt be suprised to see some crazy shit kick off in iraq in the next couple weeks
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Dos Equis on August 18, 2010, 06:06:53 PM
The president's comments are misleading.  The news headlines are misleading.  We still have thousands of "combat" troops in Iraq.  Yes the mission has changed, but combat troops are still there.  Still in harm's way.   
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on August 18, 2010, 06:14:53 PM
The president's comments are misleading.  The news headlines are misleading.  We still have thousands of "combat" troops in Iraq.  Yes the mission has changed, but combat troops are still there.  Still in harm's way.   

Exactly, what a crock of shit.

What are the satisitics for private contractors still there?
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Dos Equis on August 18, 2010, 06:20:49 PM
Exactly, what a crock of shit.

What are the satisitics for private contractors still there?

Not sure about the 2010 numbers, but here is an excerpt from 08:

Record number of US contractors in Iraq
Some 190,000 private personnel were working in the Iraq theater as of early this year, a new report says.

By Peter Grier, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / August 18, 2008

The American military has depended on private contractors since sutlers sold paper, bacon, sugar, and other small luxuries to Continental Army troops during the Revolutionary War.

But the scale of the use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in US history, according to a new congressional report that may be the most thorough official account yet of the practice.

As of early 2008, at least 190,000 private personnel were working on US-funded projects in the Iraq theater, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) survey found. That means that for each uniformed member of the US military in the region, there was also a contract

. . . .

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2008/0818/p02s01-usmi.html
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Hereford on August 18, 2010, 09:46:43 PM
Wonder how HH6 is doing these days?
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: headhuntersix on August 19, 2010, 12:44:34 AM
Not a goddam thing has changed other then they renamed us....we were an HBCT....on Sept 1st we'll be an AAB. Still doing much of the same crap as we were in Jan.
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: dario73 on August 19, 2010, 05:32:54 AM
Not a goddam thing has changed other then they renamed us....we were an HBCT....on Sept 1st we'll be an AAB. Still doing much of the same crap as we were in Jan.

Thread closed.  More lies from Obama.
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on August 19, 2010, 06:08:10 AM
Not a goddam thing has changed other then they renamed us....we were an HBCT....on Sept 1st we'll be an AAB. Still doing much of the same crap as we were in Jan.

You're laying pretty low these days hh6.
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: headhuntersix on August 19, 2010, 06:16:24 AM
Busy boys...but according to MSNBC and Barry, the war is over. That idiot Mathews made a big that if something happened the Iraqi government would have to go through this big deal to get us to help...it would be a phone call, if that. The pricks still rocket us weekly,  nothing has changed.
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: The Showstoppa on August 19, 2010, 07:53:01 AM
Busy boys...but according to MSNBC and Barry, the war is over. That idiot Mathews made a big that if something happened the Iraqi government would have to go through this big deal to get us to help...it would be a phone call, if that. The pricks still rocket us weekly,  nothing has changed.

But, but, but Odrama said so...... ;D



Stay safe man.....
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: headhuntersix on August 19, 2010, 09:03:57 AM
We were watching MSNBC via AFN....I thought I was going home.
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Dos Equis on August 19, 2010, 12:53:03 PM
We were watching MSNBC via AFN....I thought I was going home.

lol.  Sike!   :)  Be safe. 
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: 24KT on August 21, 2010, 06:54:53 AM
They're getting them ready to invade Israel.

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=346180.0
Title: Re: Breaking News: Last US Combat Troops now crossing into Kuwait from Iraq
Post by: Fury on August 21, 2010, 06:59:05 AM
They're getting them ready to invade Israel.

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=346180.0

Are you honestly spamming another thread with a link to a stupid fucking thread you made that no one is going to be interested in, googly-eyes?

You realize that 1.5 billion barrels is fuck all considering the US consumes 5x that in a year, right?  ::)