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MIchele Bachmann Berates President Obama For Honoring American - Iraqi Pact Drawn Up During Bush Administration Also Flubs Anti-Terror Policies
By Brian Beutler
Expanding on her statements during Saturday nights foreign policy debate, GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann attacked President Obama for fully drawing down U.S. forces in Iraq, and claimed incorrectly that his war policies have left the country with a choice between releasing terrorists or killing them.
President Obama was given a war that is won in Iraq, and hes choosing to lose the peace, Bachmann claimed on Meet the Press. Thats a desecration of the memory of forty-four-hundred Americans that gave their lives to liberate Iraq.
Obama is removing all troops from Iraq by years end, pursuant to an agreement between the two countries that dates back to the Bush administration. U.S. and Iraqi officials had discussed allowing a small number of troops to remain in Iraq past the deadline, but those discussions deadlocked over U.S. concerns that American troops would not be given immunity in Iraqi courts.
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