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Rick Perry Would Send Troops Back to Iraq

Rick Perry Would Send Troops Back to Iraq

During Saturday night’s ABC News Republican presidential primary debate from Manchester, New Hampshire, Texas Governor Rick Perry took a stand when assertively declaring that if president, he would send troops back to Iraq to prevent Iran from taking over the country. Gov. Perry slammed President Obama for allegedly acting on political pressures in pulling out U.S. troops from Iraq, and in his opinion, opening the door for a possible takeover by foreign powers:

“I would send troops back into Iraq . I think we start talking with the Iraqi individuals there. The idea that we allow the Iranians to come back into Iraq and take over that country, with all of the treasure, both in blood and money, that we have spent in Iraq — because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base, and move out those men and women. He could have renegotiated that time frame. I think it is a huge error for us. We are going to see Iran, in my opinion, move back in at literally the speed of light.They’re going to move back in, and all of the work we’ve done — every young man that has lost his life in that country will have been for nothing. Because we‘ve got a president that does not understand what’s going on in that region.”

Perry is a former Air Force pilot and says that unlike President Barack Obama, he understands what it is like for those on the front lines.

The Los Angeles Times notes that Perry’s stance on Iraq may play well in certain upcoming primary states such as South Carolina, where there is heavy interest in defense policy, but poses a risk nationally:

“An ORC/CNN poll from December, when U.S. troops left Iraq, found that Americans overwhelmingly support the withdrawal, 78% to 21%. Sixty percent of Republicans and 78% of independents approved of the decision.

A majority of all respondents, 51%, said the decision to send troops into Iraq was ‘dumb,’ and 57% said they believed the Bush administration had deliberately misled the American people about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.”

Do you think the risk that Perry describes of Iranians going in and taking over Iraq, is worth sending U.S. troops back?

Comments (143)

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  • mikee1
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:25am

    THAT IS A LOSER POSTION. PERRY HAS TO GET OUT NOW. No more PC WARS FOR THE MUSLIMS. BOMBS AWAY. Perry needs a teleprompter all the time, like ODUMBO. Problem is Perry thinks he is smart enough to off of the prompter and the script, like NEWT or SANTORUM ARE. He is not. GO BACK TO TX, PERRY, AND HUNT LITTLE ANIMALS, stupid creep.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:25pm

      If we go back to Iraq, it should be for the purposes of glassing it over. The politicians will never let our troops fight and win a war, because it always comes down to money, power and political maneuvers….with the troops caught in the middle. We haven’t fought an all-out, in it to win war, since WWII.

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  • jcizarter
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:51am

    The only way to Finish a War is not to pump tons of money into their economy and bring tons of people to our shores. We have paid dearly for this crazy war in Iraq. Now we have people living here illegally from Iraq.
    The only way to Finish a War is to defeat the enemy. Not to build up the Frackin schools, roads, bridges, and all infrastructure just to have it blown up by these backward fools. Their religion and their lack of education does not make them good allies at all. Read about the wars that YHWH had the Israelites fight, that is the way to win a war.

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    • junior1971
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:12am

      What the hell is yhwh?

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    • Love_John_Galt
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:27am

      Looks like Ron Paul gave Glenn Beck the platform for his economic and international predictions. Please note the year was 2002! We were warned..and did NOTHING!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:40am

      Killer Captain Rick Danger just earned the neocon vote. Watch Fox to see if Bill Crystal starts to endorse him now. The perpetual war lobby trumps the pay the deficit lobby every time!

      TEA

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:57am

      The people of the Sunni Awakening I would say we should fight alongside them again

      For the Shiites that follow Sadr, they reap what they sow.

      Sadr is bought & paid for by the Iranians. He is no more a man nor deserves his leadership position than Kim Jong Un.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 8:52am

      News Flash ;;; Rick Perry has just been spotted jogging toward Iraq… In black spandex….. And oversized armey boots…. Details at eleven…

       
    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 9:02am

      Rick, listen bro, we aint Goin back into that crap hole…..you can, but we aint…

       
    • proud2bmom
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:03pm

      @Junior – YHWH is an abbreviation for the Hebrew name for God. It is traditional for some to omit the vowels in His name as a show of respect.

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  • SFsuper49er
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:35am

    Beck all i have to say is all this money you said you didn’t have 3 months ago I hope you put it to good use moving to Texas in a even bigger place… Your a he** of a business man if your buying all this stuff and don’t owe anyone a dime. Your expanding faster than China !

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:38am

      Glenn does deserve more credit than he gets, look at the first internet network that he has set up, yet gets little credit for. In the future it will all be on the internet.

      If you missed the debate, here is a site with a lot of the highlights: http://www.americanparchment.com/

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:06am

      and your comment pertains to the article HOW ??

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    • Dumbwhiteguy
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:36pm

      Glenn Beck, “The Truth Lives Here”

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  • MR_ANDERSON
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:51am

    “literally the speed of light”

    Literally?

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:03am

      Mr. Perry sometimes confuses Iranians and Klingons, but he knows that he doesn’t trust either of them.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:05am

      yes, they have perfected time travel.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:10am

      Technically, yes, at the speed of light.
      They have been AWAITING our withdrawal, since odumbo obama was dumb enough to ANNOUNCE a withdrawal, so they are PREPARED and waiting.
      That means that when they SEE (we SEE @ the speed of light, btw)…
      when they SEE us leave they will move in…
      Thus, the time from our departure to the time they begin moving will be at the speed of light.

      (technically)

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:32pm

      Actually we do not see at the speed of light, since it is impossible for information to be delivered from our eyes to the occipital lobe at that speed. The electrochemical activity necessary to relay thought (including sensory perception) is limited to around 30 or so meters per second. That is a far cry from the 3 x 10^8 meters per second that light travels at.

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:43pm

      Since our nervous system is an information bottleneck, the true speed at which we process visual stimuli has an inverse relationship to the distance the object or event that we are viewing is located. Think of it like taking the interstate at 80 mph for 15 miles on your way home from work, and the remaining 1 mile being done at 30 mph. Average speed over the course of the journey is approximately 77 mph. If the distance on the interstate is cut in half, average speed becomes approximately 74 mph.

      Same thing with our ability to see. Only since the speed of light is so much greater than the electrical transmission network of our nervous system, the bottleneck has a much lower effect so overall transmission speed from event to lobe is effectively much closer to the speed of light, but it will never equal it.

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:05pm

      Using c = 2.99792458 x 10^8 m/s
      And generously assuming a thought transmission speed of 30 m/s
      And assuming we are viewing an object from, say, a mile away
      And estimating that the distance between lens of the eye and the occipital lobe is about 10 inches:

      Overall speed from source to brain is approximately 2.99745 x 10^8 m/s
      Or, in other words, a 47 meter per second difference, or 0.0000157% slower.

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:11pm

      (Technically)

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:24pm

      Whoops, buried some exponents. Actual speed would be 2.99745150 x 10^8 m/s, or a 0.15% slower speed.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:43pm

      Doctor Nordo
      Good eye ther, it almost got by me too.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:14pm

      Good point DOCTOR NORDO

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:22pm

      I would not have gotten any sleep at all tonight with out all the tech imfo on the speed of light.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 11:10pm

      @Doctor Nordo
      Are you high?

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  • SFsuper49er
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:24am

    I said the same thing while they were still there …. I don’t think we finish wars anymore

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  • RationalMan
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:22am

    Com’on Rick,
    It’s Mexico we have to be concern about!!!! You said so last month…

    RationalMan
    Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:59am
    Well, well, Hezbollah (Radical Islam) and Mexican Cartels (Catholics) are hand to hand, together?

    Yep, “Red Dawn” is coming near you!!

    http://tinyurl.com/d9t2bhv

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  • yHate
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:16am

    Perry is a pawn.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:55pm

      Deeply profound comment… Uh, are those real?

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 1:37am

    Perry has already been counted out so to speak. That is a shame. A prior poster sounded off about if Perry would be there in the fray in Iraq…Guess what? He WAS in the front line. The man was IN the Military and not in some ***** KP duty – got it! I’ve no doubt that if Perry were President, the Secret Service would be running circles cuz the guy would hop Airforce {helicopter} and go take care of business by HIMSELF! OK- so apparently, America wants a great debater for a President…like we didn’t learn from the current one…all I can say is that this man, Perry, would cover his squads azzes vs. Obama who would wave a white flag AND GIVE $$$ to just be nice, Rommney who would let things slide, like Clinton did which DIRECTLY led to 9/11/01, or Paul who will further the coming of the 12th Iman….geez!

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  • Daddymac10
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:53am

    He wants to send troops back into Iraq, is he personally willing to lead the charge on the front lines?? These corrupt politicians have a “do as I say but not as I do” mentality. Rick Perry should’ve dropped out 2 months ago, he’s not qualified to be president..

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    • jonnyfontain
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 1:45am

      Are you people kidding me? The United States is in an economic down turn and you all think we should just cut and run after spilling our blood for 10 years? I got to tell you as a Veteran of the front line I didn’t watch my buddies die so that we could run up a 15 trillion dollar debt (and most of it being Iraq and Afghanistan) and hand the billions if not trillions of dollars in oil to the Iranians and the biggest local bad ass that can steal it and sell it on the black market. We took out a crazy leader, a man that gassed 250k+ of his own women, and children of Iraq. We gave women the right to vote, have a job, go to school etc. We handed them a Democracy and now they pay us nothing? We just foot the bill for these people, whom most of which want to kill us? Are you Kidding ME!! We need to stay their and protect our interests (start drilling their oil) to pay off our own debt and charge this economy a little. I think we’ve earned it.

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    • Daddymac10
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:19am

      Well Jonny we may agree more than we disagree. I was there on the front lines too and for us to spill our blood over there without receiving any compensation from the host nation is absolutely stupid by us. We been in Iraq how many years?? 10 years and we have not receive one dime for liberating them?? And so much of our blood have been spilled over there for what reason?? The more time we spend over there not being compensated, the more our debt rises. If we are not gonna collect, then I say bring everyone home. If they want us to stay over there to protect them from the big bad wolf, then they better pay us something in return. We can’t stay over there forever, Iraqis are big boys who should be able to defend their own homeland. The same go for Afghanistan too. We trained them long enough, it’s time for them to grow up and defend their own land..

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    • WHITE-TX-POWER
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:18am

      Agree with you. We should put Boots to Asses! Take there oil and charge them. Do we get a thank you from them?

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:30am

      Well, as a veteran myself who was among the first in the military involved in the assault on Baghdad, I certainly do NOT want us over there again. We were wrong to be there in the first place. We went there under false pretenses. There were no WMD’s. We were lied to by our administration. That automatically puts a black mark on the efforts and sacrifices of everyone who bled over there. Why continue the travesty?

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:49am

      OIF vet here as well. What I could never understand is why we stuck around after Thunder Run was good and finished. I mean, its obvious as all hell we didnt take their oil as so many have claimed we did (gas prices anyone?) And while the iraqis I interacted with ranged from cool guys to shitbags, I dont think we were ever truly welcome. Here’s a metaphor, If someone kicked in the door to my house, emptied a mag into my entertainment center, tossed a grenade into my kitchen, shot my dog and then offered to move in and help me replace everything, I dont much care how long they stay or what they fix, Im mostly gonna remember the first impression. Our time there is finished and now it is up to history to decide if we “won” or “lost”

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    • Dosrios
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:01am

      Were you an active duty Air Force pilot ? What charges have you led ?

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    • str8blues
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:57pm

      @JohnnyFountain You are so right! Thank you for your service to America.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:34am

    Nope we’re done with Iraq .
    Let them do their job .

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  • guido.cavalcanti
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:24am

    “Rick Perry Would Send Troops Back to Iraq”, so would Santorum.

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    • Roaran
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:22am

      Don’t forget Iran. Gotta keep us safe going after the muslims with guns!

      Don’t think about it just go go go, it will make us safer!

      And those troops will be fighting for our freedoms, while the government takes them away from us.

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  • NILAP
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:20am

    Drop out Rick – you are only helping Romney and Obama and hurting the Tea Party.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:31am

      the “ricks” should drop out. agreed

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:51am

      I would vote for Ricky Bobby before Perry or Santorum

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    • db321
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 1:55am

      I love Rick like a brother – I know he is a Godly Man. However, I don’t think that God wants Rick to be President – It appears that lately God has been hitting Rick with a goofy stick! He may need to hang it up.

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:20am

    Well, Perry certainly does speak his mind and I admire that, but this position is not going to be embraced by many, and in my estimation it puts him very close to finished in this campaign. You can debate all day about whether clearing out of Iraq when we did was the right timing. Fact is, we are out now and folks don’t want our boys going back. The place is a powder keg ready to blow from within – even without the Iranians coming across the border. Even if we had the resolve, we could not afford the continued expense in dollars and young lives when the chances of success there are so abysmally low.

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  • Byzantine_Catholic
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:07am

    Why DR. Ron Paul is our best bet to beat Obama (more so than Romney)

    We are ALWAYS told that elections are determined by the “independents and moderate”.. Well guess who wins those voters?

    CNN did exit polling in Iowa and found the following (google cnn exit polls Iowa for more info)

    • Ron Paul won the Independent vote by more than 2:1 (43% to 19%) over Romney
    • Ron Paul won the Moderate vote by (40% to 35%) over Romney
    • Ron Paul won the first time voters by (33% to 17%) over Romney
    • For voters who want a “True Conservative” (37% to 1%) over Romney
    • Paul and Romney tied (26% each) for the urban vote – typically strong democratic vote.

    Dont let the Media fool you that Romney is the only one who can beat Obama by “winning the Middle”

    Vote Ron Paul for Liberty

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  • Eliasim
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:05am

    Go home Perry you are not electable.

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    • KangarooJack
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 1:38am

      -and that is truly a shame.

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    • Clara88
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:37pm

      Rick Perry has NEVER lost an election until Iowa. I believe he is VERY ELECTABLE

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:00am

    Time served and now it is time to stay home. If Iraq wants the US back they need to ask or some other international body asks. They told the US to get out and know it is time to stay out.

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  • mbrat42
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:51pm

    Every one of those candidate talk about how important it is to listen to military leaders and intelligence on the ground. Rick Perry is the only candidate that had to b—- to stand by that opinion and say he would do what military leaders and intelligence said should have been done in the first place. Obama was warned. Sectarian violence and a vaccuum left for Iran to fill began the day after the withdrawl. Support him or not but at least Perry didn’t say, I’ll follow the advice of military leaders and intelligence… unless it doesn’t poll well and hurts my chances at election or re-election.

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  • larrylarrylarry
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:48pm

    Let Saudi Arabia deal with Iran. They are the ones responsible for us invading Iraq in the first place.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:20am

      Larry,
      Firstly, the USA just sold a number of F-15′s to the Saudis, so be careful what you (foolish) wish for.
      Secondly, Saudi’s Sharia law and that of Iran, are very, very similar. Thirdly, your idiotic claims that We invaded Iraq in retaliation for the deeds of the Saudi government identifies you as a USDA Prime imbecile.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:45pm

    I agree, we can’t let Iran takeover.

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    • donh2
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:52pm

      Iran OWNED our invasion of Iraq the whole time. Remember Ahmed Chalabai ? The expatriot Iraqi who advised Bush how when why to invade Iraq…He was an Iranian spy giving them our encryptions codes. Iran thanks you very much for your obediant stupidity in taking down their biggest road block to Israel Saddamn Hussein.

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  • Cuthalu
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:44pm

    Perry is clueless. If any country should be worried about being attacked it would be Iran being attacked by Iraq like Iraq attacked them during the 80′s. And Iraq attacked Iran because our own governmnent wanted them to AND helped them attack Iran. For the love of God, Rick Perry please stay in Texas you clueless fool.

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    • Shasta
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:46pm

      I wonder if Iraq has the keys to all the military equipment we left with them.

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    • KangarooJack
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:12am

      Ahem {clears throat} are you nuts? Iraq invading Iran???? You are one Sad-dam step behind on the current events…

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    • Clara88
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:38am

      Troops are still there and more troops are being called to leave in Jan.

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  • Drakkhanlord
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:44pm

    feel free to pack your bags and go…

    me and mine will protect the homeland.

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  • Shasta
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:43pm

    I agree with most that we should have left a contingent of troops in Iraq, but come on Rick. I have tried to forgive your mistakes, but this one is too much. Iraq does not want us there, so to go back, we would have to invade again. Seriously Rick? Once Obummer had us leave in a semi-defeat, it was over. Iran got the better end of us again, just like it has ever since Obummer took office.

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    • Rainman3769
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:35am

      I certainly agree that going back after all the trouble of leaving would be borderline insane, but semi-defeat? I dont think so. I was deployed there as part of the “surge” in ‘07 and in my 15 months I saw alot of improvements and headyway being made, especially in the ability of the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army to handle themselves. When it comes to nation building (something our military SHOULD NOT be doing) I dont think you can say wither you won or lost right away. History will be the true judge here in the end I think.

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  • donh2
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:43pm

    Its like Perry is some kind of vantriloquist dummy channeling the will of Dubya Bush.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:19am

      No, I do not believe that even Mr. Bush would be dumb enough to go back in after we had withdrawn

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    • Clara88
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:36am

      We have troops STILL there

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  • PJL
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:39pm

    To late now, it would be to risking for our troops. We should have left a force in country. But Obama wanted to paly politics.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:13am

      Does anybody have a link to show the debate tonight? The whole debate, not bits and pieces. Thanks.

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  • CitizenVetUSA
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:32pm

    He is the first to say it and he is probably right………

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    • mommaLION
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:36pm

      I agree citizenvet! I can’t believe how vulnerable we are leaving Iraq after all of the blood and money we spent bringing liberty there!

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:40pm

      Except he forgets, Bush signed the agreement to withdraw by Dec 2011. If Iran moves on Iraq, the UN can deal with it. Let the Arabs take care of Arabs, and Americans should take care of Americans.

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