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Its a question of excuses for inaction. If we didn't need Saddams permission to kill him in 2003, why did we need Maliki's permission to stay in 2011?
Bush acknowledged that our troops needed Maliki's permission to stay when the unwise big balled invader agreed to negotiate and cut the deal that US troops had to be out of Iraq's cities by June 2009.
If Bush had the kind of brass balls you are yearning for, Bush would have told Maliki and the UN to go to hell and he would have began Shock and Awe all over again.
So American troops start getting killed again so Hoo can sit on his SOFA at home glowing with wet emotions over how big Bush's brass balls really were.
Hoo, your Bush wimped out. Do you know why Bush wimped out in 2008 to the will of Maliki and the UNSC and most of the civilized world?
Because after four years of mismanaged and unjustified war it was NOT in the US national interest to start a new war against the legitimate government in Iraq that 4584 Americans gave their lives to help set up.
Bush gave Iraq their sovereignty and unless that new government in some way threatened our national security in 2011 there was no justification to on any way use military force to impose US will on a sovereign nation.
You have lost whatever marbles you may have had.