Plenty of time for Starbucks, Taco Bell & Chuck E. Cheese to establish a beachhead in Baghdad, Mosul, Tikrit and their suburbs

Based on actuarial tables and comments in Washington by the Iraqi Defense Minister, many of you will be dead (via the human aging process) before American troops leave Mesopotamia.

The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until at least 2018.

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