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Originally Posted by Ummwhat
I would like to know what you three think would happen if we up and pulled out right now.
Granted given the best MAGTF planners we have, it would take a minimum of 15 months to be gone. But what do you think would happen to that country if we left this second?
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It would not take 15 months for the US to leave Iraq. We could logically leave in less than 90 days if we choose to do so. Yes, that would require leaving a lot of US equipment behind but so what. How many American lives is a truck really worth? We've already wasted all of the money spent so far so trying to recoup some of it by a lengthly withdrawal that costs American lives is stupid.
Unfortunately there are no plans to leave Iraq at all. Even Obama has stated that he wants to leave a military force in Iraq. Hell, just to garrison the new US embassy in Baghdad would require tens of thousands of US troops.
If we want to pull out we need to look at pulling out completely and that included our diplomatic mission to Iraq. When they are ready they will ask us to return but to stay there in defiance of the wishes of the Iraqi People is absurd.