CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Dick Yarbrough: Looking back on a visit to Iraq 20 years ago with a group of Georgia heroes - LaGrange Daily News

CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Dick Yarbrough: Looking back on a visit to Iraq 20 years ago with a group of Georgia heroes - LaGrange Daily News

It was just a small paragraph buried in the news briefs inside the paper stating that the U.S. was drawing down its mission in Iraq under an agreement with the Iraqi government. A Pentagon spokesman says the drawdown reflects “our combined success in fighting ISIS.” There were no details on the number of troops that have withdrawn or when the drawdown would be completed. I ran across this item exactly 20 years to the day that I arrived in Iraq, …