micfranklin
Eviscerator
....moving out of Iraq.
I didn't even believe we were gone from Iraq until I saw the "last US bridage leaving Iraq" on MSNBC last night. So we're finally gone.KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait – A line of heavily armored [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]American [COLOR=#366388 !important]military [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 !important]vehicles[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday and rolled into history.
For the troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]2nd [COLOR=#366388 !important]Infantry [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 !important]Division[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], it was a moment of relief fraught with symbolism but lightened by the whoops and cheers of soldiers one step closer to going home. 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. [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]combat [COLOR=#366388 !important]operations[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] there.
Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home - Yahoo! News