Obama’s Meddling Undermines Future U.S.-Iraq Relationship
No Worries Mr. Fadhil, it appears a pact was just signed keeping US forces there until 2011 with the option of Iraqi lawmakers able to extend it. The overly ambitious, dangerous, impossible time line for withdraw Obama wanted is no longer a threat and is in the garbage where that idea belongs. He’d be foolish to revisit the pact since no one is against a quicker withdraw if the conditions on the ground allow for it. The objection most people had was not allowing the conditions on the ground to dictate the pace. We are still in combat, there is still an al Qaeda presence (although we bagged a big prize in their #2 today) and the Iraqi’s don’t have all their provinces under their control. Why rush out of there and hope for the best when we can walk out of there knowing the Iraqi’s are in complete control?
