[QUOTE=AGDee;1927958]American combat troops are due to pull out of Iraq by September, ahead of a complete military withdrawal at the end of 2011, and the seating of a new government in Baghdad is key to Washington's exit strategy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...oJ7Pz3Y1bvV6FQ
This is in the works. I've seen you post many times that we aren't doing this, but we are. I'm confused.
This exit strategy was announced last year. It is happening, it has started already.[/QUOTE]
Well, yes and no. Yes, it was announced last year, but Obama committed an extra ~30,000 troops to Afghanistan (I know, not Iraq, but still viewed as the same war by many) at the end of last year and says that after 18 months, they will start to come home. Perhaps I'm being a bit too nitpicky...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...n-and-pakistan
And you're right, we barely own ourselves anymore. My house is mortgaged. My car is leased. I wonder when I will have to spend 50 cents per day just to get into my closet in order to wear my clothes for the day, the money paying for cell phones for the homeless or something. I'll have to haggle with someone holding toilet paper that I BOUGHT, and end up paying an arranged price-per-square in order to fund their salary. Or something equally as ridiculous.