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Originally Posted by Daseal
On a completely unrelated note. Did anyone get a piece of mail saying that your stimulus check would be sent out within 3-5 business days? What a waste of money that was.
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not as big a waste as the stimulus check that followed :/.
and when you offer 140 degree weather, sandstorms, and guys with guns firing on you and planting bombs randomly in roads... i don't think anyone sees that as the ideal place to spend their summer vacation.
the good news is hiring 100k insurgents to fight for us has really worked out well (not as well as say, if we decided not to be retarded and disband the iraqi military overnight, but still), and we're a lot closer to being able to leave with friendly ties and more influence in the middle east than we were a year ago... societal collapse upon reduction of troop levels is no longer an immanent threat, increased UAV orbits are making ground patrols safer, and the new iraqi army is able to diffuse anti-americanism in certain situations now (ie sadr city).
I mean, we probably will keep permanent bases there, just because it's a good location and they'll probably want to keep the military trainers and american toys (fighters/bombers/helos/UAV) around in case iran tries something, but i imagine the manning in country will be vastly (VASTLY) reduced, and it won't take that long to get there...