Faster troop withdrawal may save $1 trillion

Now it's Obama's fault. The blame can now go to him.

Say it....It's now Obama's fault. That is what's most important to so many people...placing the blame not fixing the problem.

Actually it is the fault of the American people as a society that doesn't call a general strike if necessary to break the strangle hold that the military industrial complex has on us. We , meaning you, and I and our neighbors that don't take direct and immediate action we are the blame. If you wish to transfer the blame to Obama feel free or Bush or whomever.

The President tells the Army what to do.

The people just elect. No protest ever stopped a war.

as much as you think that's a caring comment it comes off as selfish when combined with this article.

These people are over there fighting and all you care about is what happens to you. Didn't even question if it was safe for them to be pulled out that fast or what damage would happen to others.

You are one of the people that claims the media hides things and yet the only---ONLY---way you can state that there is something bad or it's not working over there with this war is through the MEDIA. So you could very well be one of those people that think they know how it is over there and be under the wrong impression...meaning that those over there hearing about faster pull out might be excited to come home earlier but first think whether or not that safe for them as a whole.

But no, people like you think of WOW now I'll get mine.

Just like Obama who pretends to care. This pretend to care is the worst thing to see in people.

If the intent of the Iraq war was to depose Saddam, then victory has been achieved.

We should bail and let the Iranians have it. It's Saudi Arabia's problem now, not ours.

You fail to calculate how much money each soldier gets for being over there. They get paid a hefty bonus for being deployed. They also get a whole lot of money for just being in the combat zone.

So after all that is calculated you can then present us with those numbers and then the numbers of what corporate people are getting out of this and we can see where the fault actually lies----with them or Obama's government spending.

Actually it doesn't really matter since most of those in the military don't really like Obama to begin with. He cut their salary for them sacrificing their lives to protect (and this is what they believe so lets not get into semantics) America.

you want to document those accusations J Jammer...sounds like the famous Fox news misnomer, "some people say"

What accusations?

yes they are promised bonuses if they live long enough to collect, they also have been discharging on "pre-existing conditions" so they lose their benifits.

And you have a air base in Portugal, you have to tell why that one is still here

Yeah. And so are the tens of millions of unemployed, uninsured americans. How about we think of our own people before we destroy half of afghanistan trying to find some stupid shits who are just going to force us to kill another million innocent civilians.

They're not stupid, and they can't force us to do anything, unless we let them.

I hear your point about domestic misery, loud and clear, and we need to stop using foreign enemies as scapegoats to avoid facing our responsibilities here at home. Nevertheless, the Taliban and Al Qaida are real, and we have to deal with that.

Perhaps a reinvigorated Peace Corps to reach the millions in situations similar to those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, etc.?

My youngest son has been in Peru for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. He has had no trouble making friends and teaching in an elementary school. It is not as easy to advertise as the Marine Corps, but I think it's more effective, if what we truly want is to spread human rights.

I am against isolationism, insofar as it allows us to sit back and eat Cheetos while the world goes to hell.

now that sounds like change I can believe in

via a government that spends money like water.... especially when democrats are in power. Schools are falling a part but they decide that it's wise to give car companies billions. So awesome of them. What's next? Giving money to Mexico to help them with their drug war?

oh wait....

it does not matter which party is in power. how about instead of stealing the money from the people let the people actually keep the fruits of their labor(we are not your slaves) and keep that trillion dollars (and all the other money that is stolen from us). then people could afford health care and afford to give to charities for less fortunate people who cannot afford health care. we don't need another mommy and daddy. we can take care of ourselves. get govt. out of our lives NOW! govt. cannot fix the problem, govt. is the problem.

both of you are fools. as near as i can tell (if were pinning the blame on presidents) than dem's are the only ones that have seen a surplus. so fail jj.

as for the baloney about gov failing. maybe in america, because america can't seem to get it's shit together. In fact throughout the world we can see that gov IS the answer when done right. when the system doesn't revolve entirely around greed. yay america! founded on greed, existing on greed, dying on greed. whoo!

i just...i just don't think ya'll read enough.

Greed is a world problem, not an American problem.

Read more.

I’m sorry you feel the need to resort to name calling rather than rational, logical discourse. I’m also sorry you feel the need to have the government take care (control) of your own life. And lastly, I’m sorry you are still stuck in the false left/right paradigm. This country has been in steady decline since at least the Wilson administration. Who has been in control in all this time? The republicans AND the democrats (both puppets). We have been deceived.

“…gov IS the answer when done right”. What have you been reading(or smoking for that matter)? What government has ever done things right? One merely needs to look to history to see that all governments eventually become controlled by the power elite, the money changers. The closest any government has come to doing “things right” is the USA when the Constitution was implemented. A quote from Thomas Jefferson:

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Since you believe greed to be one of the principle faults in our system then perhaps you will agree with me that the Federal Reserve has got to go. A central bank that issues fiat currency has no place in a free market economy. Although, a little greed is good for a free market economy to function so long as laws are not broken or sanctioned by the government, as is the case with fractional reserve banking(fraud) – i.e. the central banks. If you understand what the central banks do then you also come to the realization that war would be nearly impossible without them. A few excerpts from G. Edward Griffin’s book: The Creature From Jekyll Island.

“…when the state delegates assembled to draft the Constitution, the effects of fiat money were so fresh in their minds they decided to put an end to it once and for all. Then, the new republic not only rapidly recovered but went on to become the economic envy of the world—for a while, at least—until the lesson had been forgotten by following generations.”

“The ancient alchemists sought in vain to convert lead into gold. Modern alchemists have succeeded in that quest. The lead bullets of war have yielded an endless source of gold for those magicians who control the Mandrake Mechanism. The startling fact emerges that, without the ability to create fiat money, most modern wars simply would not have occurred. As long as the Mechanism is allowed to function, future wars are inevitable.”

However, I doubt that this is what you had in mind when you made your statements about greed. I hope that you or someone else that reads this will see that it is the Federal Reserve that is public enemy #1 and that without this putrid entity we could have peace and prosperity. I’ll leave you with one last quote from Jefferson:

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." --sounds familiar doesn’t it?