When obama starts bragging about ending the Iraq war Romney needs to pounce and remind everyone of this.
The exit strategy and timeline for the Iraq war was Bush's NOT Obama's. In fact Obama tried to negotiate with Iraq to keep our troops there beyond the deadline for withdrawl but FAILED in his negotiations.
He should also comment on Obama's eagerness to blame Bush for every failure yet never give him credit when its Bush's policies that led to success.
This is very true, but it's not going to happen because Romney is not going to want to be seen defending the Bush administration. Obama and David Axelrod probably have wet dreams about tying Romney to Bush administration policies, and if Romney did point out that it was Bush, not Obama, who ended the war in Iraq, Obama might come back with, "That may be how it looks to you and President Bush, but it's not how it looks to the rest of us," and the debate would be over.
What Romney can do is say that Obama tried to negotiate a status of forces agreement with Iraq that would have left tens of thousands of US forces stationed there, but the Iraqis turned him down, that Iraq represents a foreign policy failure for Obama, not a success, and that, in fact, Obama has failed to achieve just about every policy objective he has had for the last four years.
Not only did Obama fail to negotiate a status of forces agreement with Iraq, but he failed to advance the Me peace process on a scale no one could have imagined before he took office so that now the US has the confidence of neither the Israelis nor the Arabs and because of this it will soon be impossible to imagine any kind of negotiated settlement between the two.
Obama failed to set up anti missile defenses in eastern Europe, skulking away from our eastern European partners who had bravely defied Putin to support the US when Putin threatened to target the the installations.
Despite Biden's hysterical chest thumping about the Iran sanctions and the Obama administration's politically motivated leak about possible talks with Iran a day before the foreign policy debate,
all of the evidence indicates that the sanctions have had absolutely no effect on Iran's nuclear weapons or missile programs; another Obama foreign policy failure.
The list of Obama's foreign policy failures goes on and on and certainly has to include Obama's failure to protect our diplomats in places like Libya, the bungling of our relations with Pakistan and the politically motivated public announcement of when we would withdraw our troops from Afghanistan so that the Taliban could more effectively plan their take over of the that country, which has to be considered one of the most reckless and irresponsible public statements ever made by any US President.
After four years of Obama's foreign policy failures the US is less feared by our enemies, less respected by our friends and less safe than it was when he took office.
Obama voted against Gulf War II.
& only cost us/U.S. @ $2 TRILLION tax-payer money
(put on the tax-payer credit card by Cheney/Bu$h II mind you
