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>> the iraq vets who now fighting on the battlefield in afghanistan and the feeling was that the appropriate time to have a national new york-style ticker tape parade was the time when combat troops were back home. >> to be clear, the iraq war is over. the idea is to hold a parade to mark the end of that specific war. not to mark the end of war altogether. military officer a decorated combat veteran of iraq and afghanistan wrote to me today on the subject to say this. if they are waiting until combat ops are over in afghanistan, who is to say this won't be another conflict somewhere else at th...

City parade, mayor bloomberg said on this network i guess on sunday to "meet the press," as soon as it is appropriate to have this parade he was respecting the request of military leaders and that's who's made the request. the military leadership, all of the joint chiefs of staff and the heads of services not to not have a parade but to wait until combat troops come home. that's the question and he said when they do, we're going to have the biggest backup parade you have ever seen and we can't wait to be part of that. >> all of the things you just list listed, people aren't saying shouldn't be...

Had not said it we would have already had a parade by now. >> i think this is instead the senior military leadership including those who served in iraq and others at lower levels, who were part of the discussion on how best to honor and celebrate the troops made the request. they are making a request that the white house is honoring. they are making a request that mayor bloomberg and others are honoring. i have to tell you the program you quoted me from yesterday on npr was a call in program. there were three vets who called in. i guess they weren't part of the e-mail or twitter campaign about...

Idea but the pentagon told him not to do it. a statement from the mayor's office saying we sought the pentagon's guidance since they are the real experts and there is a question about whether a parade puts troops still in the field at risk. that struck some people including me as strange. after all, the parades to mark other wars had happened with troops still in the field somewhere. nobody thought those troops, parades put anybody at risk. after all, the st. louis parade went out without a hitch with national news coverage and only risk anybody suffered was tear duct exhaustion and sore cheek...

War. the nazis sure rear denied in may, the parade in the canyon of heros did not mean every american who had been in harm's way was safe at home. that parade was held because we were a country that had gone to war, fighting the nazis was done, that was worth throwing a heck of a lot of paper out the windows for. june 10th, 1991 parade the mark the end of the gulf war, when it ended saddam hussein was still in power and thousands of americans still deployed to the region, particularly u.s. air force personnel, enforcing no-fly zones to contain saddam. after the parade to mark the end of the wa...