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Well, this plan was announced quite a while ago and the number of troops has been reduced over time. Iraq is refusing to extend the immunity there for our soldiers past December 31. Let's take a look at why we were there:
1) False intelligence said that they had weapons of mass destruction, but we never found them. If we haven't found them after almost 10 years, we're not going to, if they even exist.
2) Saddam Hussein was an evil guy that we didn't trust and who was committing genocide against Iraquis. He's dead now.
3) While looking for #1 and #2, we pretty much destroyed their whole infrastructure, oh wait, that wasn't part of the goal. Rebuilding some of it was part of the goal in staying so long. I don't know how much progress we've made with that.
4) We wanted them to be a democracy so we got them to have elections and they have elections now.
5) Our mission was accomplished, per GWB, in 2003.
IMHO, it's time to let these people try to rebuild their country after all we put them through. Iraq wasn't much of a threat to us in the first place. We had them under our thumb already. All the other troops are gone.
I hope there are big parades when the last of our troops come home. They've been there far too long.
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