Reply #148: We will never leave Iraq...

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after building the largest embassy in the world, and setting up permanent bases, we will be there just as we are in the more than 1,000 bases on foreign soil. That does not mean that combat troops can not be withdrawn, nor is it possible to ascertain what the situation will look like next year, or next month. There are ways to establish political stability in a way other than our preferred method of bombs and guns. I don't know if this President has the power behind him that is necessary to combat the entrenched power of Corporate/Military empirical interests that have had control of our government for so long. The best I hope for is the slightest incremental change in foreign policy. I guess that makes me an Obamatron, or whatever the latest buzz word is for someone with my outlook.