US Ghosts Left at Kirkuk Base After Iraqi Army Fled -- ABC News
We took a trip to Kirkuk today. It was eye-opening.
The road seemed perfectly safe from here in Erbil, Iraq. There was plenty of ordinary traffic, and normal checkpoints, along the 65-mile route. But it was somewhat interesting that our local drivers, for the first time, brought sidearms, Kalashnikov rifles, and extra magazines to work.
We went to the Kirkuk Air Base. "Krabtown" is what the thousands of U.S. troops who were stationed there called it. The ghostly remnants of the American G.I.'s presence are everywhere.
We saw a bumper sticker pasted onto an old Soviet MiG fighter jet. "Wall Drug South Dakota," it said.
Another one displayed the American grunts' motto in this long war: "Embrace the Suck."
The U.S. turned the air base over to the Iraqi Armed Forces in 2011. You'd never guess.
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My Comment: This is an eye-opener report.
The Kurds have got a lot of cleaning to do. Hope they keep the American graffiti.
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