Iraq War ends on Bushs schedule, not Obamas
President Obama and the biased media wing of the Democrat Party are heralding the official end of the Iraq War.
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All US troops, except for 159 uniformed troops and officers as well as a marine guard in the US embassy in Baghdad, will be out of Iraq before December 31, 2011, as required by the Status of Forces Agreement President Bush made with Iraq.
The Democrats can trumpet the Obama Iraq withdrawal all they want, but it was accomplished right on schedule a schedule established by President Bush, not Obama.
Iraq War ends on Bush's schedule, not Obama's | RedState
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How times change.
McCain says those who say that Maliki didn't want to renegotiate are liars. Plain and simple. He was there at the table.
McCain: Opponents lying about Iraq history
And here's the key point. I do wish every one would stop lying about this. Because simply put Obama just wanted to get the **** out of there instead of keeping the country stable.
And hey, frankly I don't blame him but it was a huge whoopsies. Because now Iraq is being taken over by ISIS,
McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were in direct talks with the Iraqi government at the time, McCain said, and Iraq was ready for a deal before the number of troops the United States proposed leaving fell sharply.
"What Senator Kaine is saying is just totally false," McCain said. "In fact, it's a lie, because Lindsey Graham and I were there."
"The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff himself said that the number of troops that we were proposing cascaded down to 3,000, when it had been recommended to be 20,000," McCain added.
He said Iraq, at that point, determined an agreement wasn't worth the problem.
McCain: Opponents lying about Iraq history | TheHill
I guess Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is lying in this Wall Street Journal interview then.
Iraq Wants the U.S. Out
Prime Minister, in Interview, Says Troops Must Leave Next Year as Planned
BAGHDADPrime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country's security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq's security, sovereignty and unity.
Mr. Maliki spoke with The Wall Street Journal in a two-hour interview, his first since Iraq ended nine months of stalemate and seated a new government after an inconclusive election, allowing Mr. Maliki to begin a second term as premier.
A majority of Iraqisand some Iraqi and U.S. officialshave assumed the U.S. troop presence would eventually be extended, especially after the long government limbo. But Mr. Maliki was eager to draw a line in his most definitive remarks on the subject. "The last American soldier will leave Iraq" as agreed, he said, speaking at his office in a leafy section of Baghdad's protected Green Zone. "This agreement is not subject to extension, not subject to alteration. It is sealed."
Iraqi Prime Minister Says U.S. Forces Must Leave On Time - WSJ