Obama announced his plan to withdraw troops from Iraq within 18 months claiming that all combat troops will be out of Iraq by April 31th, 210. There will still be 50,000 troops left in Iraq–I thought leaving meant not being there.

As was expected, this end of the Iraq war is more of a show. We are still going to be occupying Iraq. We are going to continue to antagonize the people in the Middle East by being an occupying force. That is the reason why they hate us and continue to plot ways to attack us.

“I think the plan is significantly different than the plan Obama had during the campaign,” said McCain, referring to Obama’s campaign pledge to pull combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months of taking office if possible.

What’s new? Politicians are liars.

“The last of the U.S. troops are to be out of Iraq no later than Dec. 31, 2011. That’s the deadline set under an agreement the two countries sealed during George W. Bush’s presidency. Obama has no plans to extend that date or pursue any permanent troop presence in Iraq.”

As Obama decides to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan, it will be more and more likely that we will find reasons to keep bases in Iraq. We need to leave Iraq completely immediately. The terrorists are not attacking us for our Freedoms. They are attacking us because we are meddling in their affairs.

It is not our business to tell them how to live. Democracy cannot be spread by the barrel of a gun–not so sure we want to even be spreading Democracy. Liberty and Freedom can absolutely not be spread by killing and violating the very principles they stand for.