Trangbang68: Uh, did you happen to read the informed gentlemens’ point about having to de-contaminate and clean all the equipment? I don’t reckon they had to do that on the way in.

Recently Bush reduced the time in-theater for deployments from 15 months to 12 months. Are any of these returning brigades being hung up for lack of time to de-contaminate and clean their equipment? No. Suppose Obama said he wanted everyone home in twelve months. That means the brigade that just arrived in Iraq will come home last, while the brigade that has been there twelve months already will start decon now and begin packing for home, which is what everyone would have done anyway. The only difference is that no new brigades will arrive in the empty C-17s to relieve them.