A Fool’s Celebration?
by Chicher • Monday, June 29th, 2009 - 5:25 pmTagged: celebration, pullout, troopsIraqis rejoice as U.S. troops leave Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled out of Baghdad on Monday, triggering jubilation among Iraqis hopeful that foreign military occupation is ending six years after the invasion to depose Saddam Hussein.
Iraqi soldiers paraded through the streets in their American-made vehicles draped with Iraqi flags and flowers, chanting, dancing and calling the pullout a “victory.”
One drove a motorcycle with party streamers on it; another, a Humvee with a garland of plastic roses on the grill.
U.S. combat troops must pull out of Iraq’s urban centers by midnight on Tuesday under a bilateral security pact that also requires all troops to leave the country by 2012.
All had left the capital by Monday afternoon, Major-General in Staff, Abboud Qanbar, head of Iraqi security forces in Baghdad, told Reuters.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Things had already started heating up leading up to this. My hope is for peace there, but it ain't gonna happen. We really went and fucked things up over there. And while we're at it, we're never going to see "victory" in Afghanistan, either. We're no different than any other country that's tried and failed. Ain't gonna happen.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
What do you mean "we"? I said that they are lying from the beginning.