[TigersEye]

0bama failed to secure a Status of Forces agreement, as everyone knows.

[Alberta's Child]

There already was a Status of Forces agreement that lasted through the end of 2011. Obama's failure to secure a new Status of Forces agreement was one of the few "successes" of his presidency. The Obama administration was adamant that U.S. forces in Iraq would be immune from Iraqi prosecution for any crimes -- probably at the insistence of every lawyer who ever worked in the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. State Department, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Iraq would not accept those terms, so the continuing military presence was off the table.

I believe it was Colin Powell who warned President Bush in 2002-03 before the invasion of Iraq: "If you break it, you own it."

George W. Bush broke Iraq. He owns it.