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Obama wants to take the troops out of Iraq in a responsible manner. He believes that the troops were irresponsibly placed in Iraq and he says that there have been enough casualties.
Too many! God Bless our Troops!
At current rates the Iraq war will cost around $800B by 2011 or roughly $100B per year that the U.S. troops have been engaged in the Iraq war.
Not very many mabey 100.
There are nearly 38,000 troops still deployed today. This war has been going on since 2001. This means that we have been fighting in war for over 13 years now.
Obama wants to take the troops out of Iraq in a responsible manner. He believes that the troops were irresponsibly placed in Iraq and he says that there have been enough casualties.
No. All US troops have been withdrawn as of December 16, 2011.
in the trenches
The Iraq War began in 2003 and ended in 2011. The Insurgency in Iraq began in 2005 and continues to this day. (The difference in terminology is that the Iraq War was foreign powers fighting in Iraq to secure the country and the Insurgency is the Iraqi Government fighting in Iraq to secure the country.
Too many! God Bless our Troops!
While troops have been downsized drastically in the past year or so, it is widely believed that there are as many as 10,000 troops still on the ground in Iraq. We hope that they are all returned home safely and soundly as soon as possible.
The troops have now left the country. So, apparently, whatever it is they were supposed to have done has now been done.
The United States have fought several wars for longer than six years, such as the American Revolution, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War, but the only war that the US has been fighting for more than six years and still continues to be fought is the War in Afghanistan.
Palestine and Israel are fighting right now. They have been fighting for a few centuries.
None at the present time. US has withdrawn its troops. At the height of hostilities there were close to 175,000 US troops in Iraq, during the surge of 2007. The number of Iraqi troops is unknown, but estimated to have been between half and three quarters of a million. Probably most of them were involved in the defense of Iraq.
First of all, the fighting in Iraq has been occurring against terrorist insurgencies. Since terrorist insurgencies are not a solid military group, they are scattered throughout their country, making direct combat with them very spread out.
At current rates the Iraq war will cost around $800B by 2011 or roughly $100B per year that the U.S. troops have been engaged in the Iraq war.