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Iraq combat troops to stay, under a different designation

Inter Press Service News Agency reports, based on statements by U.S. military officials, that U.S. combat troops will remain in Iraq after the date that Pres. Obama set for the removal of combat troops. The thing is, they will be relabeled as non-combat troops.

"They will be called advisory and assistance brigades," said Defense Secretary Rober Gates. "They won't be called combat brigades.

Fulfilling the promise to get the combat troops out by renaming the units is troubling. I suppose if the activities of those troops change so that they are truly not in combat, it's not the worst slime imaginable.

I'm keeping my eyes on the bigger prize. Obama is now pledged to get ALL U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011. The U.S. is also committed to this by the terms of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by former Pres. Bush and ratified by the Iraqi Parliament.

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Mr. Black,

Why no articles on the surge of troops in afg and no time-table for withdrawl?

Mr. Black,

The BUSH BUNCH GANG OF THUGS made Iraq and Afghanistan their mission long before the less than honest elections in 2000. The BIG OIL BOYS needed that land to lay pipelines from the GIANT OIL FIND NORTH in the Caspian Sea called the Tengiz. Mr. Cheney made all that possible while with Halliburton----- I think he might have bribe some folks over there. Lots of oil and gas but not any good ways to get it out for oil down through Iraq on into Kuwait where old GW had some friends. And then for Gas out thorough that god forsaken Afghanistan on down to China. Now all that is easy to prove with the real facts used by most in journalism today ---- whoops I forgot about the White House talking points that come out daily for our Free Press here in America during the BUSH BUNCH YEARS OF TERROR ON US.

So what is wrong with Barack----tell you this---there is from five to seven thousand of the hold over gang of the BUSH BUNCH THUGS still buried deep and wide in the Obama years ahead ---- they are salaried folk in the Political and Military Arena in DC. And to build pipelines where folks talk using their guns will not work for the BIG BOYS IN OIL AND GAS cause somebody might blow them up. So got to have the hangers on in our military that want to move their families over with them to Iraq and Afghanistan to live the life of freedom. Got to patrol to patrol those pipe lines daily.

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