A U.S. soldier walks past Iraqi military police vehicles lined up at a U.S. army base west of Baghdad on July 29, 2010. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
We are saw this Iraq: US troops leave with a latte
At Victory Base Camp in Baghdad, soldiers from the last American combat brigade in Iraq are packing up their coffee grinders, their pirated DVDs and their tangled memories for the long journey home.
They line up outside the Green Bean coffee shop ("Honor First, Coffee Second") in 90 degree evening heat for the smoothies and lattes that have replaced the packets of instant coffee dissolved in purified water that were popular in the early days of the war back in 2003.
Most of them haven’t fired a shot in combat during their entire deployment over the past year. Most, but not all, are happy about that.
Over the past seven years, the military invaded a country, denied there was an insurgency, fought an insurgency and largely subdued it, but some of these latest soldiers to serve here have never made it off the base.
Coppied by http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/iraq/100813/iraq-us-troops-leave-latte
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