RonPaulian idiot, there was an effort to renegotiate the Status of Forces Agreement to keep a small sustaining force for the transition. Though, Obama didn’t seriously negotiate so he could keep his liberal promise to get all the troops out.
There isn't a single person in the U.S. military who ever would have allowed U.S. troops to remain in Iraq under the conditions that the Iraqi government was demanding. And the operative term you used was "renegotiate," wasn't it?