Obama Wants to Reverse Bush’s Iraq Mistake In the Worst Way, and Has Succeeded

The Streetwise Professor ^ | June 15, 2014 | The Professor

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Although I doubt that ISIL has the capability to attack Baghdad successfully”

I would not bet the bank on it.

[Ben Ficklin]

You are confused. Try reading it again.

What Crocker signed had to be ratified by the Iraqi parliament and the presidency council. Then had to be signed by Bush and Maliki.

It says that that the Crocker-Zabari signing was ceremonial

[okie01]

We left Iraq on Iraqi terms, not US terms. George Bush signed the Status of Forces Agreement and the NeoCons complain because Obama couldn't convince the Iraqis to sign another Status of Forces that allowed the US to leave troops there.

Recall that, while the SOFA was being negotiated, Obama met with Maliki as a presidential candidate in July, 2008.

In confidential talks, Obama advised Maliki that -- if elected -- he would prefer that all American troops leave Iraq on a date certain and he didn't want a SOFA that had American troops remaining in Iraq.

This was what Maliki wanted to hear. And he essentially insisted on Obama's conditions while negotiating the SOFA with the Bush administration.

Obama's pre-election meddling was what caused the Bush administration to sign an unsatisfactory SOFA.

[Ben Ficklin]

Actually, candidate Obama said 16 months, which would have been june 2010.

But of course the actual withdrawal timetable was set by the US Military. They have to be staged out in an orderly sequence of events to protect their rear. And their duties had to be handed off to Iraqi police/military.

[yldstrk]

I didn’t make that comment..........

[WayneS]

Did you actually read the article?

[yldstrk]

I read it, I agree mainly with him, I just hate the easy breezy way he tries to get legitimacy based on overseas travel...........to Amsterdam? He ought to be embarrassed to admit it, like ‘I’m cool, was “out of the country”, I suppose to indicate he is reasonably successful and we ought to give a sh8 what his opinion is.

As far as I am concerned, they can keep Europe, bunch of losers.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I know its in the article. The author is suggesting something that nobody knows whether its true or not. We sure are not getting any in depth reports on cable news. That’s the part that makes me nervous.