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[Riot]

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos.

For these troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, it was a moment of relief fraught with symbolism. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama's Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there.

There are more troops to yet come home, but finally - finally! Welcome home, heros

[randallscott35]

Our troops in afghanistan should be next. Today.

[jms62]

I guess the run at re-election starts today.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

There are more troops to yet come home, but finally - finally! Welcome home, heros

Except for the 50,000 that we'll remain as non-combat troops ie targets. But welcome home to the guys out of there. even if it is Kuwait

[Antitrust32]

stephen colbert was extremely funny last night on this topic!

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by Riot

There are more troops to yet come home, but finally - finally! Welcome home, heros

......right on!!

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Riot

There are more troops to yet come home, but finally - finally! Welcome home, heros

You finally got something right.

[Nascar1966]

About time these soldiers come back from a place we have no business being at in the first place. Where are these so called WMD at? Wasn't that one of the main reasons why this war was started in the first place.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Nascar1966

About time these soldiers come back from a place we have no business being at in the first place. Where are these so called WMD at? Wasn't that one of the main reasons why this war was started in the first place.

yea that Hussein family will be missed

[SOREHOOF]

Originally Posted by Riot

There are more troops to yet come home, but finally - finally! Welcome home, heros

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

yea that Hussein family will be missed

one sniper and a box of bullets would have been a lot cheaper, quicker, and less painful for a lot of military families.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Danzig

one sniper and a box of bullets would have been a lot cheaper, quicker, and less painful for a lot of military families.

You know that would be against the law, and we can't have that can we?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

You know that would be against the law, and we can't have that can we?

yeah, that's bull. why is it ok to sent thousands of troops, but not a couple? we train snipers, but can only use them against some of the enemy. pffft.

[clyde]

The whole world is just one big ol' Pleasantville!!!!

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, that's bull. why is it ok to sent thousands of troops, but not a couple? we train snipers, but can only use them against some of the enemy. pffft.

That's Congress and the U.N.......

[Riot]

We tried to take out bin Laden with snipers, we failed (like with Saddam).

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

We tried to take out bin Laden with snipers, we failed (like with Saddam).

I thought Bubba said 'don't shoot'?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I thought Bubba said 'don't shoot'?

I believe it was Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger that said, "Don't shoot." Then Berger tried to steal the papers that documented this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022001344.html

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I thought Bubba said 'don't shoot'?

I'm talking Bush.