Headline: "Iraq War Ends" - New York Times

PrimateDave

The New York Times Saturday, July 4, 2009

Troops to Return Immediately
By JUDE SHINBIN
WASHINGTON — Operation
Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring
Freedom were brought to
an unceremonious close today
with a quiet announcement by the
Department of Defense that troops
would be home within weeks.

“This is the best face we can put
on the most unfortunate adventure
in modern American history,”
Defense spokesman Kevin Sites
said at a special joint session of
Congress. “Today, we can finally
enjoy peace — not the peace of
the brave, perhaps, but at least
peace.”

Complete article available here

Other front page news:
"Nation Sets Its Sights on Building Sane Economy"
"Maximum Wage Law Succeeds: Salary Caps Will Help Stabilize Economy"
"USA Patriot Act Repealed"
"Gitmo, Other Centers Closed"
"Bush to Face Charges"

Get the complete PDF here.

Dave

P.S. Please note that this New York Times is a spoof. As good as it may make you feel to read the articles in it, in reality nothing has changed...
yet.

LovesDubs

Well it says 2009 so thats a clue :) The war will end...Im thinking fairly quickly. We need to cut our losses and get the hell out of there. But we do need to continue to help them rebuild. There will always be militant factions over there overthrowing the governments no matter what we try to set up. The minute we stop spinning the plates over there, it will fall. Getting rid of Saddam was the only good thing that came of all those US deaths.

IP_SEC

Much as I hate it that the US is in Iraq, Im sorry to say I dont think this will be over any time soon. New prez or not.

IP_SEC

Getting rid of Saddam was the only good thing that came of all those US deaths.

The US government should not be in the business of 'getting rid' of anyone by using the military. If the people have it so bad, they should have gotten rid of him themselves. Not our business.

leavingwt

Obama is inheriting an Iraqi war that is mostly won. Moreover, a new Rasmussen polls show that 60% of the American public believe the U.S. is winning the war in Iraq -- and that it will be a success.

This should allow Obama to focus on Domestic issues (The ECONOMY) and killing OSAMA, as he has pledged to do.

-LWT

roybatty

Um..hello? Obama voted to re-enact the Patriot Act (along with almost all of his Democrat buddies). So easy to slam Bush and the GOP and say things like "I'd repeal the Patriot Act blah blah.." but then get cold feet when it comes up for a vote.

So maybe the headline should read "OBAMA REPEALS LAW HE PREVIOUSLY VOTED FOR"

PrimateDave

Um, I guess nobody is actually reading this 'paper'. Well, if you like what we've got; a morally, politically, and economically bankrupt system; then more of it you shall have.

Dave

sammielee24

There is a UN mandate that authorizes the USA occupation of Iraq until December 31st - then it expires. If the new agreement is not signed, then the USA is in Iraq illegally - and if they keep shooting Iraqi's then I suppose the Iraq government would have the right to mete out justice according to the laws of their lands. The new agreement would allow the US to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011 but wouldn't affect troop withdrawl - it would affect the way they operate inside the country however.

The deal hasn't been signed yet....sammieswife.

PrimateDave

On page two of the New York Times Special Edition under the heading "Corrections: For the Record," among other topics:

Portraits of Grief

From September 14 to December
31, 2001, the New York Times
published “Portraits of Grief,”
daily obituaries of the victims of
the September 11 attacks. We are
proud of this coverage, which
won several awards. Tomorrow,
the Times begins part two of the
series with obituaries of the civilians
and soldiers killed between
2001 and today in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Two soldiers, and one
hundred civilians, will be very
briefly memorialized each day,
adding a full fold-out page to each
edition. The series will continue
for thirty years. (Estimates of the
number of Iraqis who have died
violent deaths since the 2003
invasion vary from 100,000 to
well over one million. The Times
apologizes for consistently using
only the low end of this spectrum
of estimates.)

From page 8:

USA Patriot Act Repealed

Eight years after being enacted,
and three years after being reauthorized,
the controversial USA
Patriot Act was repealed by Congress
by a vote of 99 to 1 in the
Senate and 520 to 18 in the House.

No fanfare greeted the repeal in
either house. Absent were the 40-
minute speeches and foam-core
charts predicting Armageddon.
The act was repealed with a simple
vote cast late in the day by a
Congress ashamed of what it had
done and what the Act had meant
for Americans.

In related news, Congress yesterday
repealed the Animal Enterprise
Terrorism Act and agreed to
permanently shelve the Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act. “These
acts were worded in such a way
that they could be interpreted to
equate political dissent with terrorism.
In any case none of these
bills did a thing to protect Americans,”
said Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi.

sammielee24

Getting rid of Saddam was the only good thing that came of all those US deaths.

Saddam had nothing to do with those US deaths. If Saddam was that unworthy of life, I'm waiting for the bombs to drop on all those other countries that are starving, beating and imprisoning their populations. I hear lately that people in the Congo are getting raped and murdered again - who's in charge there? Anybody check out N Korea lately? Without communication, we have no idea if people are dead and rotting in the streets there. Zimbabwe's leader is as corrupt as they come and reduced that country to a mass of scratching starving people - most of them could tell you horror stories I'm sure. Somalia is run by pirates who have taken over everything. Darfur is another issue entirely.

How is the US picking and choosing who to 'get'? Afghanistan and Bin Laden I could understand...Iraq and Saddam don't even fit. I'm not even sure that the US owes Iraq anything else at this point but freedom to run their own country. Leave and let the people rebuild their own country. They have billions in the bank and they have people who are educated and experienced in construction and all other facets of living. Perhaps once it's stable, man of the professionals will go back to their own country and set up doctors offices and vision centers and schools. The US drove them all out - if the US leaves, perhaps they can go back. sammieswife.

Headline: "Iraq War Ends" - New York Times

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