Incredible. And yes, this can all be laid directly at the feet of Obama.
Tikrit by the way is half way between Mosul and Baghdad.........Iraqi Cent Govt must be crapping themselves right now as they cannot depend on the army either. Fleeing in droves.
You are right, of course. Unfortunately, this will be blamed on Bush ("Bush lied us into Iraq War and torture!") and unfortunatelly many on the right, including an incredibly large number of FR members, will agree with that, because they can't separate the purpose and the goals of the mission from its execution (and by execution I mean both military — which was amazingly good under the circumstances — and sustained political and PR effort — which was amazingly poor, misguided and mishandled).
Liberals / Progressives had a handbook on eventually undermining any US military intervention, no matter how necessary or even initially overwhelmingly supported by them ("I was for it before I was against it") since Vietnam. The conservatives, and especially their leadership, should have been prepared and ready for that eventual Second Front / Fifth Column, yet they fail because not enough attention is given to or enough talent deployed for the sustained PR, which eventually leads to waning and failing mission.
Of course, no mention will be made of Afghanistan, Libya and other places where Obama made a huge mess all on his own...