The United States Withdraw From Iraq.

In an effort to get the troops home by Christmas and the war forgotten about in time for the 2012 election the US have arbitrarily withdrawn from Iraq. Throughout all the speeches on the subject the recurring theme is that the US is leaving "A Sovereign, Stable and Self-reliant" Iraq.

That's almost referring to me by name so I should point out that I can't be considered stable or self-reliant until all debts have been paid and all hostages have been freed. After all you can't steal seven years of my life and then expect everything to be ok. So until then the US are just on a kill mission while trying to build a secure Afghanistan with British involvement.


Edited at around 12:30 on 15/12/11 to add:

Of course the live pictures of the US military flag down ceremony in Baghdad was brought to the world by the Eurovision Satellite project - a spin off of the Eurovision Song Contest. So when the feed dropped out during the middle of Leon Panetta's speech everyone was left staring at a digital menu accompanied by the sounds of soft rock music a technicians beginning to swear in a variety of languages. Now a big TV relay station is on fire in Hanoi. Clearly they still have mixed feelings about US military occupations in that part of the world. Personally I'm just wondering if the BBC have automated their tea making facilities or whether that opportunity is still open. So yes headaches all round.