"When NBC talked about the last combat troops are gone, they made it sound like everything is basically over," he said, after escorting a 19-truck convoy through a part of northern Iraq where roadside bombs and mortar attacks are still a danger.
"To us it was like a slap in the face, because we are still here ... we are still going in harm's way every time we leave out of the gate," Manuel said at a U.S. military base, Camp Speicher, near Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit.
On August 31, the U.S. military formally declared an end to its combat mission in Iraq, 7-1/2 years after the invasion that removed Saddam and led to sectarian warfare and a fierce insurgency in which tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed. More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers have been killed since 2003.
This is testimony to the fact that the Irag war is still going on and more importantly should be a MAJOR WARNING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE that we need get out of Afghanistan ASAP. If we can't end the war in Iraq, how do we hope to do that in Afghanistan. We need to bring our troops home and take care of our own now. What does everyone think about this? I am curious to know.....