The 13-year long nightmare that is our combat mission in Afghanistan is finally over.
President Barack Obama says the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion.
Obama is welcoming the end of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan. The war came to a formal end Sunday with a ceremony in Kabul.
Obama says in a statement that the effort has devastated al-Qaida's core leadership, brought justice to Osama bin Laden and disrupted terrorist plots. He says U.S. troops and diplomats have helped Afghans reclaim their communities and move toward democracy.
Obama is also honoring the more than 2,200 Americans who have died in Afghanistan since the war started 13 years ago. Obama says those years have tested the U.S. and its military.
From a peak 140,000 troops in 2010, the U.S. and NATO plan to leave just 13,500 behind.
Well, the "combat mission" part is over, not the war. No, I don't blame Obama for this. He didn't start this mess and he's doing what he can to end it. His predecessor is another story, however. Frankly, we never should have been there in the first place, and if Bush had done his job, we wouldn't have been sucked in for half a generation.
At least we're getting out.
While I can't stand the screeching and the Blame-Obama-First attitude of the Kossacks and the Firebaggers, they are correct in that Bush and Cheney are monstrous war criminals who need to be dragged off to the Hague forthwith. It's a shame that the hysterical ninnies have made such a point of distrupting the liberal/left coalition, which guarantees that the bad actors will never ever be brought to justice. Our friend Comrade Rutherford would do well to ponder his own boot licking in this regard before again hurling low wattage thunderbolts from the anthill of the Green Party and his toadying friends like Jurassicpork.
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