Satire: Obama Declares Victory, Sort Of, Depending On How You Look At It, In Iraq
August 19th, 2010The best response to the absurd Troops Leaving Iraq meme that I’ve come across is in The Onion.
Here’s a bit more context:
Secret Plan to Keep U.S. Forces in Iraq Indefinitely
Clarifying News Stories Using the Iraqis-Regaining-Their-Sovereignty Meme
If the U.S. is ultimately leaving Iraq, why is the military building ‘permanent’ bases?
Via: The Onion:
“By the end of this month, victory, to a certain extent, will be ours, and we can finally welcome our troops back home,” Obama concluded. “That is unless they are one of the 50,000 U.S. soldiers who will have to stay in the region for the foreseeable future.”
Following the president’s address, a car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in Baghdad killing eight Iraqis and wounding 32.
Pentagon officials also declared the mission, in a sense, kind of sort of accomplished Tuesday, citing the handful of Iraqi hearts and minds that may have been won over by the U.S. occupancy, and the fact that Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki had not yet been assassinated.
“In cases where we were unable to rebuild infrastructure or quell violent civil unrest, it wasn’t for lack of trying,” Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said during last Sunday’s taping of ABC’s This Week. “And trying your best, one could argue, is technically a triumph in and of itself.”
“And hey, Saddam Hussein isn’t in power anymore,” Odierno continued. “So that’s something.”
Research Credit: Eileen
