Obama was incapable of getting a SOFA because he didn't want one. Bush's plan was to leave at least 10,000 troops in Iraq at the advice of the Pentagon. We now have 3,000 troops in Iraq with no SOFA. Figure that one out.
You are in gross error!
You can find a PDF copy of the Bush and Company 2008 SOFA here: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/122074.pdf
In that document on page 20 under Article 24, "Withdrawal of the United States Forces from Iraq" one can clearly read at #1. "All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011." [Emphasis Added]
Obama attempted to alter that agreement in the fall of 2011 with another SOFA, but the Iraqi's refused to grant the customary immunity from tribal Sharia and Iraqi Law to US Forces in October 2011. So all US forces, save those left in the sovereign Green Zone, departed, with the last leaving on Dec 16, 2011!
Bush wasn't going to leave 10,000 troops behind as you claim. The forces left there are on sovereign soil within the embassy complex and Obama attempted to secure a SOFA to protect US troops from trumped up Iraqi charges, here and there, while they kept the lid on Bush's failed pogrom of "Nation Building" and the still smoldering civil war it spawned, but the Iraqi's didn't want us there so we left 15 days before the Bush 2008 SOFA expired! Your distortions and misrepresentations notwithstanding!
"When Obama took office in January 2009, he inherited a plan that President George W. Bush forged in 2008 with then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. That Status of Forces Agreement called for the withdrawal of all American troops by the end of 2011.
It was widely assumed a new plan would be negotiated after the 2008 version expired in 2011. There were no stipulations about a specific number of American military personnel to be left behind.
When it came time to renegotiate a new agreement, there was little consensus on whether a residual force should stay in the country. Military leaders in Baghdad and the Pentagon pushed for as many as 24,000, but the White House rejected that amount.
Obama reportedly did consider leaving up to 10,000 troops in strategic locations after the exit, but that plan faced opposition both in the United States and in Iraq. Obama ruled out a force that size during an August 2011 conference call.
Remember that the country was considered relatively stable in 2011; ISIS elements existed prior to that, but largely formed into the force it is today after American troops left -- and mostly in Syria at first.
Good Grief! Did you bother to read the Bush and Company 2008 SOFA I cited? That NON-REFERENCED, PLAGIARIZED copy and paste job from the Tampa Bay Times is full of slanted, biased Bull Shit that only tangentially regard the topics at hand AT BEST! The BUSH SOFA is a binding legal document. An OPED from a partisan Florida rag is NOT!
Your post to, which I originally responded was;
"Obama was incapable of getting a SOFA because he didn't want one. Bush's plan was to leave at least 10,000 troops in Iraq at the advice of the Pentagon. We now have 3,000 troops in Iraq with no SOFA. Figure that one out." [Emphasis Added]
I debunked each item you raised. You responded to that with a PLAGIARIZED copy and paste that makes no mention at all of the detailed terms of that official US document that put the LIE to your entire initial post, to which I originally responded. You can redeem yourself by admitting your error, or you can continue to ignore the truth. It's your credibility on the line, not mine!
You didn't debunk anything, merely attacked the source. I noticed you didn't figure out why we have 3,000 troops in Iraq with no SOFA.
If you are referring to you as "the source" that is fairly obvious and it's self-evident that your non-defense is tacit admission of your PLAGIARISM. If you are referring to the Tampa Bay Times as "the source" that also is obvious along with the fact that partisan rag slanted the truth as proven previously by presentation of the FACTS within the Bush & Company SOFA of 2008.
The 104 Acre US Embassy in Bagdad is the largest embassy complex in the world, nearly the size of the Vatican, with about 15,000 working within its walls. I have no idea how large the security force inside the Embassy is and it's irrelevant in any case; they are not combat troops, but a security force.
I know for certain that inside those walls is SOVEREIGN US TERRITORY! Given the security force is on sovereign ground, AGAIN, there is no need for a SOFA. If you cannot get that through your head, then God Bless You! I think it's time you stopped displaying your ignorance.
I didn't plagiarize anything dipshit! Do you even know what the word means? We now have troops on several bases outside of the Embassy. Try and keep up.