Change of Command, End of Combat Operations Ceremony

Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony at Camp Victory in Iraq marking the end of combat operations and the beginning of a new "advise and assist" role for U.S. forces. September 1, 2010.

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• Iraq
• Iraqi
• combat operations
• combat
• change of command
• advise and assist
• military
• troops
• war
• Gulf
• Middle East

[NickGrayOMG]

All you McCarthyists need to stop living in a fantasy world and look at the real issues with this world. Our government has problems, they all do, and there are definitively evil men in this world. But come on. The red scare is so 20th century.

[s4blk]

FUCK BUSH

[gregjalbert]

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[hometown555]

Im A Combat engineer and i was in Iraq doing combat missions up until A Few months After they said the combat missions were over. I always knew what the government is all a show to keep society in line, it just feels a little different when im the one fighing in Iraq with my best friends as the top of my chain of command told America i was safe at home. well im sureit was for a good reason.

[Trebor0930]

i dont understand why people still want the war to continue. i mean we should just stay away from all those countries and focus in our own problems. i guess we didnt learn our lesson in the vietnam war. we have a lot of problems inside the country so we should first try to fix those problems before going to another country and helping them solve theirs.

[democratsaresmart]

@s4blk I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. COULD YOU BELIEVE IT, BUSH LIVES IN A HUGH MANSION IN DALLAS, BUT NEW YORK CITY LOST TWIN TOWERS? WTF? WHERE IS JSTICE?

[EdwardRommel]

@interwebbist

Most of the rebuilding cost has been borne by US taxpayers...not the iraqis.

And the Iraqi oil contracts are being awarded on live TV...so there is transparency.

Per Transparency International ...Iraq is amoung the 6 most corrupt govts in the world and has been for a long time...but things may now improve with Sadaam gone.

[interwebbist]

The Iraq / Afghanistan privatized war

56,000 troops in Afghanistan plus a burgeoning private security business.

'Privatized' Wars

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[interwebbist]

Pentagon can’t account for $8.7 billion in Iraqi funds

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The U.S. Defense Department is unable to properly account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money tapped by the U.S. for rebuilding the war ravaged nation, according to an audit released Tuesday.

The report by the U.S. Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction offers a compelling look at continued laxness in how such funds are being spent in a country where people complain basic services like electricity and clean water.