Today the last of the troops have left Iraq.\u00a0 I would to take this opportunity to welcome them home to their country and loved ones.\u00a0 Your service is under appreciated by too many but remember that you are never forgotten.\u00a0 It saddens me that our economy became the #1 issue to people when we have fellow volunteer Americans dying every day in wars.\u00a0 You lost a job, someone else lost a father, mother, son or daughter.\u00a0 How does that stack up?<\/p>\n
I would also like to thank President Obama for sticking to President Bush’s timeline and getting the troops out of there as planned.\u00a0 It is unfortunate that the troops’ stay was as long as it was.\u00a0 If it had been done right, Mr. Rumsfeld would have been released in 2004, we would have had a surge when we originally needed it and our troops would have been gone by summer 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today the last of the troops have left Iraq.\u00a0 I would to take this opportunity to welcome them home to their country and loved ones.\u00a0 Your service is under appreciated by too many but remember that you are never forgotten.\u00a0 It saddens me that our economy became the #1 issue to people when we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-observations","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}