The Whitehouse should host a giant welcome home parade for

[styersc]

the troops returning from Iraq. Bands, soldiers, happy families etc.

I think August 28 in Washington DC would be a great day and venue!!!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. PERFECT!!!!!

[zipplewrath]

2. Um, they're headed to Afghanistan

Planning on hanging up a "Mission Accomplished" banner? He argued for Iraqi reductions so he would have the troops to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Might not be such a good idea to be throwing parades while we are still escalating a war.

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[JuniperLea]

6. !

:thumbsup:

[LostinVA]

7. Why would the poster, a liberal poster, go to a Glenn Beck rally?

Are you calling his Republican or Freeper?

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[styersc]

12. Families will be welcoming home loved ones. Iraqis will be

handling tough engagements meaning fewer Americans in harms way.

Certainly it is "over" the way that Korea is "over" but when my fatehr came home from Korea, it was over enough for us.

[LostinVA]

14. Iraq isn't even close to being "over"

And, i think sometimes that Afghanistan is just beginning.

[LostinVA]

13. Well no, "librul purists' and Freepers are not the same

I have no idea why you would say something like that.

[styersc]

16. Liberals and Freepers are not the same, but often difficult to

discern in criticism of this president. Difference could be put this way. President Obama says, "The sky is blue".

Freeper says, "No it's not, you're a lying, terrorist loving Muslim. You are horrible!!".

Liberal Purist says, "Not blue enough, you've let us down! You are horrible!!"

[zipplewrath]

17. My concern is celebrating while folks are still there

It could be real bad to have a parade when he is still sending folks off to war, and people are actually still fighting and dying in Iraq.

But I guess that kind of concern and sensetivity makes me a Beck loving freeper or something.

[Phx_Dem]

11. +1

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Even though it wasn't this White House that sent them, they deserve nothing less...

:party:

[BootinUp]

4. I think its an excellent idea

:thumbsup:

[mrdmk]

8. K and R

This is a start having all combat (offensive) troops leave Iraq is a positive move. Many thank yous President Obama. A plan to end an occupation starting in 1990 needs to be the next goal.

[Stoic]

15. That should make the 50,000 "trainers" left behind feel real good. n/t

[zipplewrath]

18. Exactly

Not to mention the families of those trainers that see them come home in a box.

[Homer Wells]

21. In the first years of the war in Viet Nam

the term the government used for our troops was "Military Advisors".
Yet whether we were called 'soldiers' or 'advisors', the 59,000+ of us who died there were just as dead , and died for no good reason.

It is amazing to me that anybody today would fall for the same outright bullshit that those in the VN Era fell for at that time.

Lincoln was right! You CAN fool some of the people all of the time!

[David Zephyr]

19. I agree.

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[ensho]

20. NO we should not celebrate destroying Iraq and murdering an obscene

amount of its citizens. leaving toxic DU that produces deformed babies and cancer, cancer, cancer.

the world would hate us even more if we celebrated that.