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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
n david,
In terms of Iraq and Obama's decision to pull out in 2011:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Inh.../12/id/576796/
But then there's this:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201...-to-sta/199742
In other words, December 2011 was President's Obama doing. GWB's contribution to this was a Status of Forces Agreement that ended December 2011, but I remember there was much political discourse in the months leading up to December 2011-- and President Obama and his decisions were at the center of the discourse at the time.
Whether because he refused to work with Al-Maliki's demand to have legal jurisdiction over U.S. Forces or if he was concerned with getting America out a hole we should never have been in to begin with, President Obama pulled America out of Iraq and I say, good riddance! |
It was already set when the US would draw down before obama became president.
"The Bush Administration later sought an agreement with the Iraqi government, and in 2008George W. Bush..signed the..U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. It included a deadline of 31 December 2011, before which "all the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory".[12][13][14]..The last U.S. troops left Iraq on 18 December 2011, in accordance with this agreement.[1][13][12]"
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