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Combat missions have ended in Iraq, sort of
ecthompsonmd September 1, 2010

President Barack Obama told us in prime time that combat missions have ended in Iraq. More than 100,000 troops have been pulled out of Iraq. Then he kind of slipped in that troops still remain in order to train Iraqi forces and help hunt down terrorists. Isn’t hunting down terrorists what we have been doing for last two or three years? Haven’t we been training Iraqi security forces for more than three years? What’s changed? Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Renewed Fighting in Iraq
ecthompsonmd March 28, 2008

Just a couple of weeks ago, we had Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsey Graham, and other conservatives– including President Bush– touting the success in Iraq. They were throwing out statistics showing that the violence has decreased. What they didn’t tell us was that we are paying several Sunni factions to lay down their arms. It is my understanding that these payments are scheduled to stop soon and there are no plans to continue them. Intense fighting has broken out in Basra. Basra is a city that has little or no Sunni presence. So who’s fighting? Shiite factions are. This underscores what

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