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Obama announced to the Jihadists all they had to do was wait until he withdrew the troops then the Middle East would be theirs for the taking.
The troops were withdrawn from Iraq, not from the "Middle East." The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq cities by June 2009 and complete withdrawal of all US troops from all of Iraq by the end of 2011
was announced by formal agreement between Bush and Maliki
in December 2008. If you wish to continue to believe that Obama's announcements that were in keeping with the Bush/Maliki well-defined deadline for all withdrawal, then you must be blaming Bush for the 'waiting' by the Jihadists. But you are also wrong about the Jihadists 'waiting'. Iraq was still deadly in 2009 because the bombings and attacks never completely stopped as they did in Post WWII Germany. More questions for you keep arising. Why did Bush give Iraq sovereignty before achieving a 'surrender' by the Jihadists? Since you bring up Germany's situation after WWII why didn't Bush do what the great Democratic President did, which is defeat the enemy, demand an unconditional surrender, and then consider withdrawing troops from Iraq and granting them sovereignty? Bush granted Iraq Sovereignty in 2004 as shown in Post 99 (NF 10078086). There were three more years of deadly fighting going on after 2004 which begs the question as to why Bush but the cart before the horse with respect to Iraq's sovereignty. And then Bush never defeated all the Jihadists. The jihadists you now call Obama's friends.
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We still have troops stationed in Germany, Japan and Korea to keep the peace. But leave it up to Obama, he was determined to throw away the blood and treasure spent securing a safe and stable Middle East
Obama did not inherit an
"ended war" in the Middle East nor was it ever as stable as you make it out to be. Bush destroyed more 'stability' than he created because he upset the Sunni/Shia balance along with the stalemate between Iran and Saudi Arabia on the Sunni/Shia divide.
I explained above sufficiently why troops were able to be stationed in Germany and kept there all these years. But also the 'defeated' German people had no say in the matter for many years. Not so in Iraq was it? East Germany was under Soviet Occupation until the 1990s and the occupation of West Germany ended in 1955, one year after Germany was made a part of NATO. Did Iraq join NATO or did I miss something Mr. CrusaderFrank?
QUOTE]By the late-1940s, the United States acted to formalize the split and establish western Germany as an independent republic, and in May 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was formally announced. In 1954, West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the mutual defense alliance between the United States and several European nations. All that remained was for the Americans, British, and French to end their nearly 10-year occupation. This was accomplished on May 5, 1955, when those nations issued a proclamation declaring an end to the military occupation of West Germany. Under the terms of an agreement reached earlier, West Germany would now be allowed to establish a military force of up to a half-million men and resume the manufacture of arms, though it was forbidden from producing any chemical or atomic weapons.
The end of the Allied occupation of West Germany meant a full recognition of the republic as a member of the western alliance against the Soviet Union. While the Russians were less than thrilled by the prospect of a rearmed West Germany, they were nonetheless pleased that German reunification had officially become a dead issue. Shortly after the May 5 proclamation was issued, the Soviet Union formally recognized the Federal Republic of Germany. The two Germany's remained separated until 1990, when they were formally reunited and once again became a single democratic country.
Allies end occupation of West Germany mdash History.com This Day in History mdash 5 5 1955 [/QUOTE]