Except President Flustercluck when he was still Candidate Flustercluck preemptively announced removing all US forces from Iraq was going to be his policy.
Which immediately told Iraq that the US was going to leave a vacuum in the region which Iran, the biggest powerbroker left, was going to fill, and which the non-shiite islamist radicals were also going to try to fill, leaving Iraq with no choice but to pick between the two, instead of three, alternatives.
obama was not a Clusterfuck candidate. I was frighten of him the moment I heard him speak. However, I think he was one of the best campaigners that the U.S.A. every saw, at least in 2008. In 2012 the prestige was gone, so he just stole the election.