Panetta: Military's Role to be Discussed With Iraq -- Military.com
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT -- Once all U.S. troops in Iraq have left by year's end, Washington will negotiate with the Iraqi government on a possible American role in training the country's land and air forces, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday.
Speaking to reporters aboard his plane en route to Bali, Indonesia, Panetta said the U.S. and Iraq have not yet agreed even on the number of U.S. military personnel who would be assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to facilitate Iraqi arms purchases and to conduct initial training.
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My Comment: Panetta certainly sounds optimistic .... but if I may quote Hillary Clinton from a few years back .... "hope is not a strategy". As for my take .... we are now going to get out of that god-forsaken country .... the goal now for every US soldier is to make sure that they are not the last soldier to die in Iraq.
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