| Good evening, I'm writing to tell you that all US troops will return home from Iraq by the end of December. After nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq will end. It's not because we won necessarily but because we were thrown out. Our servicemen and women will be with their families for the holidays. The war in Iraq came with tremendous cost but also had its benefits for the military industrial complex that we are all familiar with. More than a million Americans served in Iraq, and nearly 4,500 gave their lives in service to the rest of us. Today, as always, we honor these patriots and servants of predatory capitalism. When I came into office, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. As Commander in Chief, I ended our combat mission last year and pledged to keep our commitment to remove all our troops by the end of 2011. To date, we’ve removed more than 100,000 troops from Iraq. This is a significant moment in our history. For more information, including video, please visit WhiteHouse.gov/BringingTroopsHome. The end of the war in Iraq reflects a larger trend of American imperialism around the world. The wars of the past decade are drawing to a close and we must move on to the next battlefield or the American economy will collapse. You see, for many years we have been debasing our currency by printing trillions of dollars and spending it frivolously in order to create a new world order, one in which the wise capitalists that run our shadow government headquartered in the NY & Dallas Federal Reserves, have been able to consolidate their wealth. We have been able to successfully distract the people from the real issues of global overpopulation and resource depletion with wars justified by acts of violence like 9/11, which we so cleverly disguised as a war with the middle eastern Islamic extremists. Since they are so different from the rest of the capitalist gluttons, it was easy to place the blame on them while we continued to rape, pillage, and plunder the planet. We even opened AFRICOM the Imperial military command post in Africa that will help us secure their resources for the next 30-40 years. As we have removed troops from Iraq, we have refocused our fight against al Qaeda and secured major victories in taking out its leadership–including Osama bin Laden which has provided vital protection to our national interests in the area (oil). And we’ve begun a transition in Afghanistan, where there are trillions of dollars of virgin gold, silver, and mineral deposits. Also, we must protect our vital national interests of the Caspian Sea, which are BP, Shell, and Unocal oil and natural gas. On the first day of my Administration, roughly 180,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the end of this year that number will be cut in half, and we’ll continue to draw it down. As we welcome home our newest veterans, we’ll enlist their talents in meeting our greatest challenges as a nation—restoring our economic strength at home. Because after a decade of war, the nation that we need to build is our own. Today the United States moves forward, from a position of strength despite the fact that everyone says we lost the war.
Please honor our soldiers for they know not what our true objectives are. Thank you, President Barack Obama
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