Andrew: Are any of these returning brigades being hung up for lack of time to de-contaminate and clean their equipment? No, because they leave it there.

Andrew, are you telling me that when the Stryker Brigade rotated home recently to Fort Lewis, they just came home with the clothes on their back, and they didn’t bring their Stryker vehicles with them? Because if that’s the case, who’s maintaining and using them now? And that means we don’t really have an operational Stryker brigade, because all the troops are here, but their gear is back in Iraq because its too hard to decontaminate and clean them, and apparently we can’t do that here in the US. I hope somebody is watching all those dirty Stryker vehicles, because despite reports of our tanks and other vehicles being worn to pieces, we can’t leave them in Iraq or else the Iraqis might get them and use them to become a sovereign nation. So Obama is out to lunch. You’re right! We need to stay there for 100 years and guard all this contaminated materiel.