Obama Turns To Local Media To Promote Reelection Message

The number of soldiers will be and have been reduced. If you are using the fact that we will still be present there for some time to come in a training and ambassador relationship as war then we have been at war with just about every country of significance for ever.

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Not when the wars are ongoing.  

We're not out of Iraq.  The troops aren't withdrawn from Iraq, nor will they all be.  In addition to the thousands of mercenarie­s remaining there, there are thousands more being left to "protect" an 'embassy' (a CIA fortress) the size of Vatican City in the center of Baghdad.  That cutback in troops by the Pentagon doesn't apply to State.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/world/middleeast/iraq-is-angered-by-us-drones-patrolling-its-skies.html

In addition to some 5,000 private security contractors now protecting the embassy’s 11,000-person staff, Iraq is rife with American-paid contractors, mercenaries, and is a war zone, with the dead piling up day in and day out.

Whenever there's been a cutback in the number of troops, there's been an increase in the number of mercenaries hired and paid for with US taxpayer dollars.

Running wars "off the books", with public relations' firms designing press releases for Pentagon and State Department to spin the American people around.  

We're not leaving Afghanistan.  The mission in Afghanista­n wasn't to wipe out the Taliban.  Congress didn't authorize either Bush or Obama to do that.  You seem to be using 'Taliban' interchang­eably with Al Qaeda -- Huge mistake.  Only a neocon or a neolib would boast of Obama's "escalatin­g" the war in Afghanista­n.  The truth of our failure in "exporting democracy" to Afghanista­n is here. 

The 10-year strategic partnership agreement that Obama and Karzai signed commits the US-- its troops and billions more dollars -- to Afghanistan for the indefinite future.

How many more enemies are being made for American citizens through Obama's drone killings of civilians across the globe?  
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