I must have missed that midnight retreat. When was this?
they’ve already won there (hardly destroyed). Iraq was a setback for the US, not Al Qaeda, and it delivered the White House to Obama.
Really? Fascinating...you must be privvy to all kinds of intel and operational details that I'm not.
Your lame attempts to rewrite history won't work, especially since I was actually there and witnessed this stuff.
Why don’t you look at ANY news story of the last US troops pulled out of Iraq; they left in convoys under cover of darkness (they were actually afraid of being attacked by the IRAQI ARMY - the one that WE TRAINED). If you watched ANY news, they had the soldiers describing their apprehension as they were pulling out (after they’d left the media blackout zone).
No intel or operational details needed; it was front-page news for a few days.
Apparently being there didn’t do anything for you if you missed that bit; I guess we didn’t pull out because of unacceptable casualties in the face of impossible goals? We lost; accept it.