If you didn't know that quite well, you do now.
0bama failed to secure a Status of Forces agreement, as everyone knows.
Yes, Bush signed the agreement that he did not want: After the election of Obama and under intense pressure from the Establishment Media, which gave the Maliki government the ability to renege on what they had agreed to in August.
Remember how hard the Establishment Media pushed Bush as Evil? How hard they pushed to prevent a win in Iraq?
Obama had three years to get a better deal. The U.S. held all the cards, but President Obama wasn’t willing to play them.
This is from the leftwing FactCheck.org, hardly a Bush partisan.
“So, President Bush reluctantly agreed to a withdrawal deadline without leaving behind a residual force because of Maliki’s strong objections. Jeb Bush ignores those facts.
Still, Obama had three years to negotiate a new agreement prior to the Dec. 31, 2011, withdrawal date to keep some U.S. troops in Iraq. In fact, a day before Bush signed the agreement, Gen. Ray Odierno — the former commander of the U.S. troops in Iraq and current Army chief of staff — said the agreement might be renegotiated depending on conditions on the ground. “Three years is a very long time,” Odierno told the New York Times.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/08/bush-clinton-play-blame-game-in-iraq/
Things would have been much different if President Bush had the support of the media that Obama had. But Bush was a Republican.