Of course I am paying attention to what's going on in the Occupy Movement after the fall of Occupy Wall Street, but given that just about every other blogger and news organization of merit are doing so as well, I figure my lowly self will cover another story.
Washington D.C. - President Obama's decision to take the troops
out of Iraq in a few weeks was defended by Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta. Citing the agreement between George W. Bush and Iraqi
officials to get the troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, he
said “The bottom line is that this is not about us, it's about what
the Iraqis want to do and the decisions that they want to make and
secure itself, and hopefully, make the decisions that are in the interests of its people.”
President Obama spun it a different way on October 21st
when he announced on television he is “keeping his campaign
promise” to get U.S. forces out of Iraq.
However he did mention even though we are “out of Iraq” we
aren't really. He and Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, said the military will still practice counter-terrorism
tactics with 10 of Iraq's forces. There is also a claim that some of
them will give counter-terrorism training in the camps but not go
embed themselves into Iraq's forces.
This goes to show what the end-game is for them. They will help
Iraq if they get diplomatic immunity but if not the people are on
their own. Chances are they're hoping Iran starts something and
starts messes with it through Israel.
At least we are more than sure where Leon Panetta stands.
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