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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
You can be against the war; be against Bush; be against Obama; but facts are facts....Obama lost Iraq to Islamic radicals, not Bush !
Oh yeah, in case you are wondering. I think Bush was a terrible president.
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You do not understand the politics in that region. And you damn sure do not understand the
Status of Forces Agreement
.
Bush 43 won Iraq just like Bush 41 did.
Temporally. Make up your mind....do you want to keep spending money and lives in that region when we have plenty of oil now here in this country? You are playing politics with American lives and money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2...rces_Agreement
The
U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name:
Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a
status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.
[1] The pact required criminal charges for holding prisoners over 24 hours, and required a warrant for searches of homes and buildings that were not related to combat.
[1] U.S. contractors working for U.S. forces would have been subject to Iraqi criminal law, while contractors working for the State Department and other U.S. agencies would retain their immunity. If U.S. forces committed still undecided "major premeditated felonies" while off-duty and off-base, they would have been subjected to an undecided procedures laid out by a joint U.S.-Iraq committee if the U.S. certified the forces were off-duty.
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