Sunday, December 18, 2011
The last troops drove out of Iraq this morning.
And having entered the country with a fanfare of bombast and lies, the last to go took their leave quietly and unannounced.
For security reasons, the last soldiers made no time for goodbyes to Iraqis with whom they had become acquainted. To keep details of the final trip secret from insurgents, interpreters for the last unit to leave the base called local tribal sheiks and government leaders on Saturday morning and conveyed that business would go on as usual, not letting on that all the Americans would soon be gone.And so George W Bush's Private Little War ends with the troops sneaking out in the night.
Many troops wondered how the Iraqis, whom they had worked closely with and trained over the past year, would react when they awoke on Sunday to find that the remaining American troops on the base had left without saying anything.
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So victory is celebrated nowadays by sneaking out at night, not by a big celebration and victory parade as you exit triumphantly? Gosh, things sure have changed over the last 70 years!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
* If this is what victory looks like, what would defeat look like?!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
* If this is what victory looks like, what would defeat look like?!
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