MSNBC Airs Live Footage Of Last Combat Brigade Leaving Iraq

video

by Frances Martel | 9:55 pm, August 18th, 2010

» 7 comments

Capping off a night of extraordinary exclusive coverage live from Baghdad and featuring the network’s biggest stars, MSNBC was on the ground on the Kuwaiti border to see the last American combat soldier cross the border from Iraq.

NBC’s Richard Engel stood on the border of the two countries watching the convoys drive by, reporting back live to Keith Olbermann in New York. Engel had arrived at the border embedded with troops in Baghdad.

There are still non-combat troops– somewhere around 50,000– staying in Iraq for training missions and infrastructure work, so this isn’t exactly, as many have said on the network and elsewhere, the definitive last word on Iraq. But it is a milestone in the war, and perhaps an end to the war as we knew it for the past seven years.

The video via MSNBC below:

Iraq, keith olbermann, Kuwait, military, msnbc, Richard Engel

puck30

Hey Maddow! I hope your there the day they pull the last of the REAL 50,000 troops still left there. You know, the one’s that are still left there protecting your ass right now.

BTW: I have a question for all the geniuses out there on the left. The 50,000 that are still there, if they get fired apon they can’t fire back? Is there some sort of gun control over them?

Because let me tell ya, if they get fired apon and they fire back. That’s called seeing action or another word would be…………..

COMBAT: definition

fighting: fighting between two people or groups, especially between armies ( often used before a noun )
“combat troops”

2. fight or struggle: a struggle between opposing individuals or forces
“combat between good and evil

MSNBC WHERE THE MORE STUPID YOU ARE
THE MORE CRAP WE CAN THROW IN FRONT OF YOU
BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT YOU WILL LAP IT UP LIKE THIRSTY DOG THAT HASN’T SEEN WATER IN 3 DAYS!
AngelPeters

puck30 said:
Hey Maddow! I hope your there the day they pull the last of the REAL 50,000 troops still left there. You know, the one’s that are still left there protecting your ass right now.

BTW: I have a question for all the geniuses out there on the left. The 50,000 that are still there, if they get fired apon they can’t fire back? Is there some sort of gun control over them?

Because let me tell ya, if they get fired apon and they fire back. That’s called seeing action or another word would be…………..

COMBAT: definition

fighting: fighting between two people or groups, especially between armies ( often used before a noun )
“combat troops”

2. fight or struggle: a struggle between opposing individuals or forces
“combat between good and evil

MSNBC WHERE THE MORE STUPID YOU ARE
THE MORE CRAP WE CAN THROW IN FRONT OF YOU
BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT YOU WILL LAP IT UP LIKE THIRSTY DOG THAT HASN’T SEEN WATER IN 3 DAYS!

Puck,
I am assuming you know that we still have American troops in Korea, left over from the Korean “police action”, as well as troops in Germany, Japan, left overs from WW2, right?

You are aware of these facts, yes?
adel

While Fox continues fair and balanced fund raising… Quite a “news organization” they run…

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008180072
nrgetick

What a dog and pony show this exit is.
nrgetick

i guess atleast its a first step,.,.let me know when the private contractors leave…
More Liberty

Mean while, the administration plans to double the civilian security contractors in country, through a State Department contract, to 7,000 PMC/Security Contractors. Many of the jobs that were done by the brigade are being turned over to contractors. I got out of the Marine Corps in ’08 after 10 years of service, to include 3 tours to Iraq. I’m now in the high risk security contracting community and must say that this will open up mucho jobs.
felixw

MSNBC got miserably low ratings for its on-the-ground coverage of the Iraq troop withdrawal. Maddow’s audience was more than 20% off her usual level, which is pathetically small even on a good day. So much for liberals’ interest in positive stories about the American military! And this is the only success story the Democrats have to run on in November — a military stabilization that they owe to George Bush and his surge!

Of course, MSNBC could have covered the half million jobless claims last week — a figure that has been steadily rising in recent months. Or the huge deficit the government incurred last month. But don’t hold your breath on it. The leftwing media tries hard to ignore any story that is unfavorable to their favorite political party. Too bad for them that almost everything happening of note nowadays reveals the Democrats’ incompetence.