Thursday, December 15, 2011

U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over - A Big Yeah http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html?_r=1

11 comments:

  1. Now if we can just get all the others over I will have something to celebrate.

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  2. This is true but it's truly history Rodney Iraq was a long haul.

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  3. i have read it on Yahoo news yesterday. A wonderful christmas gift for all. I pray there is more reconciliations happening in the offing.

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  4. Yes far too long and when you combine the Gulf Wars all together it really was a very long haul . The Persian Gulf war and the Iraq war were really one war with a break in between. I just hope it is really over. If Iran starts meddling in Iraq's affairs we could be back in it.

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  5. all i can i can say is "It is about time that our boys come home " :))

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  6. I feel the same and within times in which there are so many things which are happening
    I am up here in Canada but have followed this and this was one promise which finally
    has come to be.

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  7. Well boy howdy you made it Pamela! A big yeah, I think there are so many families as well as those of service that are elated as I was just writing this on a friend named Marty's blog. Big yeah and even you Pam have close ones which are returning. As mentioned, I may be up here in Canada but this is a a good day within history.

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  8. It's a big yeah Marty as mentioned...this is where there is GOOD NEWS within times where there is so often otherwise.

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  9. “You will leave with great pride, secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people to cast tyranny aside.”

    Leon Panetta, defense secretary pays tribute to troops within the marking of the official withdrawal from Iraq.

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