Last of the Combat Troops Leaving Iraq? – Only in Your Dreams

**Legrange** · 08-22-2010

Last of the Combat Troops Leaving Iraq? – Only in Your Dreams

Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Commentary, Nathaniel Bacon, War Coverage

Watching MSNBC’s coverage of ‘the last combat troops leaving Iraq’ for 3 hours reminded me of a few brutal realities that still plague this country and this planet. The first being just how far this country remains from any semblance of reality. It’s the kind of delusional denial that truly can only be believed when witnessed from within.

As Keith Olbermann was describing the cinematic quality of the “Strykers driving into your living room,” I could really think of only one thing – The aftermath of a 7.5 year all out United States operation to decimate a people and their society.

There’s no way to comprehend the scope and facets of this operation, because you would need a Pentagon for that. From the first day after initial conquest when the money disappeared from the banks and their record of civilization was decimated by the looting of their museums, it was like any other colonial conquest in history, except every excruciating moment of this one was on television.

The following 7.5 years of the assimilation of a country went as diagrammed.
From control (denial) of power, water, and even seed monopolization, to toxic contamination of the gene pool and re-education ‘schools,’ to monopolization of natural resources, to fostering drug addictions and self-perpetuating violence, etc., what took a hundred years to do to Native Americans was accomplished in under a decade.

Quite an example of lessons learned from hundreds of years of colonization.
And in the name of all that is Holy, please do not delude yourself into believing this war is over.
50,000 troops will remain, an ‘unknowable’ number of contractors / mercenaries, and an embassy that makes the Vatican look like the summer home will remain.

Certainly, the colonization of Iraq was one of the fastest and most efficient in history. It also needs to be the last.

So there are no delusions of the reality we have left for the Iraqi people, please watch the short videos below. Then, while you’re sitting with your family watching the MSM pundits debate whether the war was ‘worth it’ or not, think about how long you could survive the kind of ‘Freedom’ we have heaped on the Iraqis. Face the reality, and forget the cinema.

1.5M Iraqi War Widows: http://ow.ly/2rBGR

The poisoning of Iraq: http://ow.ly/2rBJv

Iraq – Unknown Illness Spreads: http://ow.ly/2rF0K

Iraq – Another little girl’s house gone: http://ow.ly/2rEYX

Still no electricity in Baghdad: http://ow.ly/2rBJM

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**Keltoi** · 08-22-2010

Excellent summary.

**Tom Watson** · 08-23-2010

They claim that all the combat troops have left, however 50,000 troops are to remain. The remaining troops are going to accompany the Iraqi troops on there missions and be well armed, so there is no way they won't be facing combat.

It's just slight of hand, leave 50,000 troops but just don't officially label them "combat troops".

**mikewolf** · 08-23-2010

It is just slight of hand, trying to make good on a campaign promise since his popularity has bottomed out. It is impossible to designate combat from non-combat troops, an American there is a "target" and that makes it all combat. What nonsense.

**Michael Vilmar Avery** · 08-23-2010

My understanding is that the USA embassy there in Iraq is going to be as big as the Vatican!

Clearly this big brouhaha about 'our soldiers' leaving is a huge misdirection away from the fact that American Soldiers are going to be garrisoning another nation well into the Future.

America was better when it was an Isolationist Nation and we need to get back to that Tradition!