Going into Iraq was the right thing to do. We saw evidence that Al Qaeda had training camps there; we knew Saddam Hussein was a murderous tyrant (think Kurd Genocide) and the Iraqi Government had tried to put in motion plans to assassinate GHWBush. Oh, and the weapons of mass destruction......didn’t they surface in Syria when the ‘red line’ was crossed? Under GWB, we had WON that war and were successfully stabilizing that country. Obama wanted ALL troops out so he could have his ‘talking point’ running up to the 2012 election. He had promised ALL troops out of Iraq....and he did it. He didn’t want any status of forces agreement. I am in shock that he now says he is surprised that people think he made the decision to pull ALL troops out. The more he talks, the more even his own people must realize he is a pathological liar. We WON the war, Obama THREW AWAY the peace.
If Obama removed those troops in 2011 to give himself a "talking point" for his 2012 campaign, then wouldn't you have to acknowledge that George W. Bush was a complicit player (four years before the fact) in Obama's 2012 re-election campaign?