All U.S. troops in Iraq to leave by end of year

It is about time, Iraq needs to stand on its own(which it won't) we do need to get out of one of the worlds shitholes.
Things could have been different if this administration and the liberal ass monkeys on the left would have backed the efforts of taking out terrorism instead of blindly supporting it.

So goodbye to Iraq, I for one hope you can stand up for democracy, but watching the world of Islam and seeing how things work; You will fail, and you will embrace the evils of terrorism once more.

SFGate (Or the suck Fest Gate)
President Obama announced Friday that the last U.S. soldier would leave Iraq by the end of this year, drawing to a close a divisive eight-year war that cost the lives of 4,478 troops and defined the presidency of George W. Bush.

The decision leaves only a vestigial presence of Marine embassy guards and liaison officers staying on where more than a million troops, in all, have served. The was has cost more than $1 trillion.

(The SFGate could not suck off Obama any more in their praise for his efforts)

Chopper crash kills 31 U.S. troops, 7 Afghans

A sad day indeed.

An Unfortunate incident in a fire fight takes the lives of 31 American troops, Lets hope that they can finish off the bastard Islamic rejects that fester in Afghanistan.

The Los Angeles Times
Thirty-one American troops and seven Afghans were killed in the overnight downing of a NATO helicopter, President Hamid Karzai's office said Saturday. The Taliban claimed to have shot down the craft.

The deaths are thought to represent the largest loss of military lives in a single incident in the course of the nearly 10-year-old war.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, confirmed in a terse statement that a crash had occurred and acknowledged "insurgent activity" in the area at the time. A Western military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Chinook helicopter had apparently been brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade.

Petraeus marks July 4 with troops in Afghanistan

And don't forget about the troops.
The amazing U.S Military has helped secure or freedom and our independence, they deserve the biggest thanks.

AJC
The outgoing U.S. commander in Afghanistan marked his last Fourth of July ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn uniform by speaking to American troops during a re-enlistment ceremony Monday in the country's restive south.

Gen. David Petraeus, who was recently confirmed as the next director of the CIA, told the 235 troops re-enlisting in Kandahar province that they have achieved progress on the battlefield but that "much work remains" to be done in Afghanistan.

"You raised your right hand and said 'Send me,' and today you raised your right hand again and said 'Send me again, if needed,'" he told the soldiers on America's 235th birthday.

"I cannot say how impressive your action is," he said. "It is the most meaningful display of patriotism possible."

Petraeus will be replaced by U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen even as 33,000 U.S. troops begin to withdraw from Afghanistan, the start of President Barack Obama's promised withdrawal of all combat troops by 2014.