[Alberta's Child]

U.S. military personnel left Iraq under the terms of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by George W. Bush in 2008, which required the U.S. to remove all of its forces by December 31, 2011.

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?

[originalbuckeye]

Obama SAYS he was trying to renegotiate the agreement but the Iraqis wanted us out. Do you believe him? Do you think that 2011 was enough time? Do you think, if we had had a responsible President, that agreement wouldn't have been renegotiated to continue the progress being made in Iraq? I suspect Obama didn't do squat and knew he could blame GWB for whatever happened. And that is exactly what is happening. I suspect that GWB made that agreement in the faith that the time allotted would be enough. Obviously, it wasn't.