My current event is the troops in Iraq requesting legal immunity in order for them to stay in battle through the end of the year. They will not stay if they do not have legal immunity from prosecution. Mike Mullen and other U.S. officials would like the troops to stay in Iraq past their original December 31 departure date. Washington has offered to let up to 10,000 U.S. troops stay in Iraq and continue training Iraqi forces on tanks, fighter jets, and other equipment.
Right now there are around 46,000 U.S. troops and are staging there departure. They want to make sure that they have legal immunity if they stay in Iraq any longer past their original departure date. They will come home as scheduled if the request for immunity is denied. Most U.S. troops are still very unpopular among the Iraqis because they are tired of eight straight years of war. Iraq is unable to provide for its own air sovereignty. That is one of the reasons the U.S. troops are still over there training them with our weapons and tactics. If you ask me it’s simply because “we da best”.
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