Hillary's Iraq

[the_human_being]

Hillary Clinton was instrumental in the rise of ISIS in Iraq. It was her duty to support the government of Iraq once Obama removed the last US forces from the country and declared victory.

As ISIS Brewed in Iraq, Clinton’s State Department Cut Eyes and Ears on the Ground

 

[Iceweasel]

What hasn't she screwed up?

 

[Ridgerunner]

What hasn't she screwed up?

Stimulating the pantsuit economy...

 

[Iceweasel]

What hasn't she screwed up?

Stimulating the pantsuit economy...

I gotta admit, she looks good in an orange pant suit.

 

[Siete]

Hillary Clinton was instrumental in the rise of ISIS in Iraq. It was her duty to support the government of Iraq once Obama removed the last US forces from the country and declared victory.

As ISIS Brewed in Iraq, Clinton’s State Department Cut Eyes and Ears on the Ground

liar

 

[LaDexter]

Hillary's foreign policy = whatever Netanyahu tells her

 

[Siete]

43's SOFA signed in 08 expired Dec 31, 2011.


THE END

 

[U2Edge]

43's SOFA signed in 08 expired Dec 31, 2011.


THE END

Signed in 2008 with plenty of time to renegotiate a new one. The United States has SOFA's around the world in many different countries. They expire which means they have to be renewed before then. It was Obama's job to get it renewed. He had 3 years to do that!

 

[Moonglow]

Less than three years later, the relatively calm Iraq that Maliki had led in 2011 was gone.

Iraq, was never calm after the US invasion..Maliki refused to let Sunni's take their place in running Iraq, which started the sectarian feud in which former members of Saddam's military organized into ISIL..

 

[U2Edge]

Less than three years later, the relatively calm Iraq that Maliki had led in 2011 was gone.

Iraq, was never calm after the US invasion..Maliki refused to let Sunni's take their place in running Iraq, which started the sectarian feud in which former members of Saddam's military organized into ISIL..

Wrong, there was plenty of participation by Sunni's in the Iraqi government and military while the United States had troops on the ground. When the United States left at the end of 2011. Thats when Sunnis started to gradually be thrown out of the military and government institutions on trumped up charges. This actually weakened the Iraqi military because all of the best military officers in Iraq come from the Sunni population. They were replaced with inexperienced political hacks that were very loyal to the prime minister. When it came time to fight against the ISIS invasion from Syria in 2014, these leaders and their units fell apart. Had the Sunni officers kicked out two years earlier had been allowed to remain, the ISIS offensive which took much of northern Iraq in 2014 would have been defeated. They would have remained in their positions had Obama kept US troops there who were embeded and training with all these Iraqi units.

Fastforward to 2016, and the Iraqi military is gradually being rebuilt, and ISIS is rapidly losing territory in Iraq and won't openly control any territory in Iraq by July 2017. 5,000 US troops are on the ground in Iraq and are gradually repairing the damage that was done by the United States premature withdrawal in 2011.

 

[Moonglow]

Less than three years later, the relatively calm Iraq that Maliki had led in 2011 was gone.

Iraq, was never calm after the US invasion..Maliki refused to let Sunni's take their place in running Iraq, which started the sectarian feud in which former members of Saddam's military organized into ISIL..

Wrong, there was plenty of participation by Sunni's in the Iraqi government and military while the United States had troops on the ground. When the United States left at the end of 2011. Thats when Sunnis started to gradually be thrown out of the military and government institutions on trumped up charges. This actually weakened the Iraqi military because all of the best military officers in Iraq come from the Sunni population. They were replaced with inexperienced political hacks that were very loyal to the prime minister. When it came time to fight against the ISIS invasion from Syria in 2014, these leaders and their units fell apart. Had the Sunni officers kicked out two years earlier had been allowed to remain, the ISIS offensive which took much of northern Iraq in 2014 would have been defeated. They would have remained in their positions had Obama kept US troops there who were embeded and training with all these Iraqi units.

Fastforward to 2016, and the Iraqi military is gradually being rebuilt, and ISIS is rapidly losing territory in Iraq and won't openly control any territory in Iraq by July 2017. 5,000 US troops are on the ground in Iraq and are gradually repairing the damage that was done by the United States premature withdrawal in 2011.

Obama wanted to keep 10,000 troops in Iraq, ABC's Raddatz claims

Shortly before Obama took office in January 2009, his predecessor, George W. Bush, finalized an important agreement after about a year of negotiations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Called the Status of Forces Agreement, it spelled out the withdrawal of all American troops by the end of 2011.
His speech revealed more details: He would keep between 35,000 to 50,000 military personnel there through the end of 2011 to train and advise Iraqi military and for counterterrorism purposes.

What would happen after Jan. 1, 2012, -- a central point in our fact-check -- was not settled until the fall of 2011. Obama and the Iraqi government had been open to leaving more troops behind to help the country remain stable.

But it didn’t happen.

On Oct. 21, 2011, Obama announced the pullout of the vast majority of American troops in Iraq by Christmas. Staying behind were a couple hundred Marines to train the Iraqi army and provide security for diplomatic personnel.

Essentially, he implemented the phase-out plan laid out by Bush.

Facing a re-election challenge, Obama held the drawdown of all troops as the fulfillment of a campaign pledge. He did not harp on what some, namely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, would see as a failure: failure to reach an agreement regarding how many American troops would remain in the country beyond Jan. 1, 2012.

This was something Obama and his defense advisers had pushed for as they wrangled in negotiations with the al-Maliki-led government in the summer of 2011. The administration feared a virtually complete pullout would allow for big attacks from militant groups.



The agreement failed over a demand that American troops be given immunity from prosecution by Iraqis, a very touchy political issue within the Iraqi Parliament. Someexperts said Iraqi leaders may not have been willing to take great political risk with their citizens in exchange for a relatively small American force.

But no immunity meant no sizable residual troop presence.

"When the Americans asked for immunity, the Iraqi side answered that it was not possible," al-Maliki said in an October 2011 news conference. "The discussions over the number of trainers and the place of training stopped. Now that the issue of immunity was decided and that no immunity to be given, the withdrawal has started."

None

 

[squeeze berry]

looks like Trump was right

 

[Moonglow]

looks like Trump was right

Trump ain't shit, he is just an observer in the stands....