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Originally Posted by Rochard
I believe that is easy to say, but impossible to do.
One of Obama's pledges was to remove us from two wars, and for the most part he has done this. However, in hindsight this has turned out to be a bad decision. He doesn't want to send tens of thousands of troops back into Iraq because the Republicans will quickly say "He went back on his promise to us".
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Bush signed the Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq which withdrawal of all american troops by the end of 2011. Obama did want 10,000 troops to remain in Iraq but because the Iraq government would not be american troops be given immunity from prosecution the deal went no were. Would the 10k of troops of made a difference who knows.