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Why dont you take it up with the 2 SecDefs who say that Obama flubbed the opportunity to leave troops there?YTou are in denial that two SecDefs of Obama's both say the same thing: Obama had considerable leverage to renegotiate, and was being asked to do so by many elements in the Iraqi government. He refused to do so and went headlong into retreat, creating a vacuum that military experts had warned about.So we're going with straight denial of facts then?You understand that faux-narrative was debunked by two of Obama's own SecDefs, right? Obama could have left troops there and chose not to.
No it wasn't. It was the Iraqis who forced Bushes hand in negotiating for a new SOFA by the end of 2008 or the troops would have been force to leave then. They wanted the US out and that didn't change when Obama became president.
You got a frog in your pocket or what? There is no doubt that the Iraqi went to the UN for many years to get them to not renew their authorization for the US occupation and they finally did, thus forcing President Bush to negotiate a SOFA in 2008. You think he did that out of the goodness of his heart?
So when Bush signed the SOFA in 2008 that called for our complete withdrawal why didn't he use this alleged leverage on the Iraq?
Because it wasn't there. The Iraqis had wanted us out of their country since 2003.