Iraq war ends

[Jim Craik]

I see that no one has commented on the end of the Iraq war.

I know over the years there have been many threads about this war, yet today at the end............................nothing!

It could be that Fox infomercial is not covering it.

But anyway today, eight plus years after GW Bush declared "mission accomplished", the US is finally leaving Iraq.

This horrable endevor to remove the "weapons of mass destruction" that were not there, has finally come to an end.

The estimared cost of $800 billion is nothing compared to the human toll.

Over 4,500 US killed
Over 32,000 US wounded
Over 170,000 Iraq deaths
Countless Iraq wounded

I want to give my heart felt thanks to the American and Coalition forces, who followed their leaders orders to the best of their ability.

Welcome Home!

 

[Bob Fechter]

Due to months of liberal delays in prosecuting the war, the WMD's went to places like Libya;

MEMRI: Footage of Stockpiles of WMDs Uncovered in Libya

 

[Jeff Young]

That's funny. That article says the production plant was found on site. They weren't made in Iraq. Do you read these articles you post?

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Welcome home warriors. Fuck the politics.

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

As usual, Pete has nailed it. Good on ya, Pete. Your Annapolis Keg Certificate has just been augmented to TWO kegs....

 

[Tom P]

I am really happy that our guys are home, unfortunately the muslim factions are going to continue fighting.This happened this morning.
Dozens die as 14 bombs explode across Baghdad
The are going to slide right back to the stone age!

 

[Doug S.]

Welcome home warriors. Fuck the politics.

I'm with you there, Pete!!!

Sad that we ended up there at all, many of the best of our younger generation didn't return....it is difficult, though, to dissassociate the politics from the issue, since the military ended up there in the first place b/c of the actions of one very deranged politician whose agenda seemed to me to be vindicating the failure of his father to take out Saddam Hussein. A politician sent them there, it took a different politician to bring them home (yet ANOTHER campaign promise on which he kept his word :idea: )

The Texas Cobra Club has adopted as their mission to support "Operation Comfort", a Wounded Warrior rehabilitation project in San Antonio. Last year the majority of the components needed to build a Cobra replica were donated to the project, and if a fire had not destroyed the body I suspect the project would have by now been built and sold. We are working on replacing the parts lost in the fire so that this asset can be used to help those whose lives were suddenly and unexpectedly changed forever. We're not just a one trick pony, though....once that project is finished and sold, we'll figure out something else we can do to support them. TCC has a dedicated fun event every year in which we take the wounded soldiers out for rides and dinner in our Cobras.

I notice that a high percentage of vets are car guys.....YEE-HAW!!!

Cheers!

Doug