Iraq

Yeah, let's talk about that God-forsaken country for a minute. Could somebody please give me a clear and compelling reason as to why this so-called 'war' is still raging? What kind of force is present in Iraq that has taken the American troops nearly 7 years to defeat? Is it a secret force Saddam was hiding from the world? Or maybe it's just Dumbledore's Army!

Remember all those campaign promises Obama made? Here's a little something to refresh your memory:

Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.

 Source: http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/ObamaIrqWr.htm

Had I been an American, I would have voted this guy in myself. Come to think of it, had I been an American, I would have not expected this:

“I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, with the understanding that it might be necessary — likely to be necessary — to maintain a residual force to provide potential training, logistical support, to protect our civilians in Iraq,” Mr. Obama said this week as he introduced his national security team.

Publicly at least, Mr. Obama has not set a firm number for that “residual force,” a phrase certain to become central to the debate on the way ahead in Iraq, though one of his national security advisers, Richard Danzig, said during the campaign that it could amount to 30,000 to 55,000 troops.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04military.html

More than 30,000 American soldiers on Iraqi soil - but why? Why is the US spending billions and billions of the tax-payers dollars on Iraq? How do saving the lives of the Iraqi people justify the death of the scores of Americans who die in Iraq everyday? What more does Obama want from Iraq, after it has made sure that there are no weapons of mass destruction in the country?