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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:46 PM Jun 2014

CBS News: Iraq War Veterans Question What Their Service Accomplished

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-war-veterans-question-what-their-service-accomplished/

Iraq war veterans question what their service accomplished

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CBS NEWS
Jun 17, 2014 9:32 AM EDT

As the current crisis in Iraq unfolds, some Iraq war veterans are asking if all the gains made by U.S. forces have been lost.

When former Army Capt. Blake Hall left Iraq in 2007, he remembers being hopeful.

"Iraq had an opportunity for long-term political reconciliation," Hall told CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford.

Two years later, Army Sgt. Matt Pelak had a similar feeling when his service was over. He saw progress among the Iraqi army and people his unit trained.

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Hall said he thinks it was a mistake not only to go into Iraq, but also to leave it.

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CBS News: Iraq War Veterans Question What Their Service Accomplished (Original Post) Hissyspit Jun 2014 OP

Sort of like the Vietnam Vets, then? villager Jun 2014 #1

John Fogerty - "Deja Vu All Over Again" pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #8

War - The Only Winners Are The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks cantbeserious Jun 2014 #2

Not Me. Not surprised at all 4Q2u2 Jun 2014 #3

duh. spanone Jun 2014 #4

Actually our presence there is a unifying factor tularetom Jun 2014 #5

This is a lesson we never alsame Jun 2014 #6

Made rich people richer. That's all war does. nt valerief Jun 2014 #7

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. Sort of like the Vietnam Vets, then?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:47 PM

Jun 2014

But when you have a supine populace and media, who can be bothered looking at history?

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

8. John Fogerty - "Deja Vu All Over Again"

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Tue Jun 17, 2014, 02:28 PM

Jun 2014

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

2. War - The Only Winners Are The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:55 PM

Jun 2014

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4Q2u2

(1,406 posts)

3. Not Me. Not surprised at all

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:57 PM

Jun 2014

Not sure what those two saw, but I left in 09 and had no delusions of that place being the Neo-con Nirvana everyone was hoping for. It was corrupt to the core. Training could not be fully realized due to ineptness, laziness, and lack of education. The whole place was just one pile of shit and we know what shit attracts.