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andy7171 wrote:We should nuke the Vatican.

catamount man wrote:It is about damn time we got out of there. Wish the 4,400 dead could come back home as well.

ASUG8 wrote:Gotta hand it to Obama - I know he's nearly in full campaign mode, but he's building a decent foreign policy resume this year. Between Awlaki, Bin Laden, our involvement in Libya he's had some impressive results. That being said, these are in places that most voters can't find on a map and has little relevance in their day to day lives, so we'll see if his issues with healthcare and the dismal state of the economy will offset his successes.

ASUG8 wrote:Gotta hand it to Obama - I know he's nearly in full campaign mode, but he's building a decent foreign policy resume this year. Between Awlaki, Bin Laden, our involvement in Libya he's had some impressive results. That being said, these are in places that most voters can't find on a map and has little relevance in their day to day lives, so we'll see if his issues with healthcare and the dismal state of the economy will offset his successes.

ASUG8 wrote:Gotta hand it to Obama - I know he's nearly in full campaign mode, but he's building a decent foreign policy resume this year. Between Awlaki, Bin Laden, our involvement in Libya he's had some impressive results. That being said, these are in places that most voters can't find on a map and has little relevance in their day to day lives, so we'll see if his issues with healthcare and the dismal state of the economy will offset his successes.

D1B wrote:We should all go to church on Sunday. Peace be with you

UNHWildCats wrote:Republicans are saying the US should remain in Iraq and also saying Obama deserves no credit for this withdrawal since the timeline was agreed to by Bush in November 2008.

Yet, it was an Obama type timeline that Bush ultimately agreed to as opposed to the conditions based withdrawal Bush and McCain wanted, so Obama does deserve credit here.

Iraq prime minister: Immunity issue scuttled U.S. troop deal
Associated Press ^ | Saturday, October 22, 2011 | Lara Jakes and Rebecca Santana

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister said Saturday that U.S. troops are leaving Iraq after nearly nine years of war because Baghdad rejected American demands that any U.S. military forces to stay would have to be shielded from prosecution or lawsuits.
The comments by Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, made clear that it was Iraq who refused to let the U.S. military remain under the Americans’ terms.

A day earlier, President Barack Obama had hailed the troops’ withdrawal as the result of his commitment — promised shortly after taking office in 2009 — to end the war that he once described as “dumb.”

“When the Americans asked for immunity, the Iraqi side answered that it was not possible,” al-Maliki told reporters in Baghdad. “The discussions over the number of trainers and the place of training stopped. Now that the issue of immunity was decided and that no immunity to be given, the withdrawal has started.”

Nearly 40,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, all of whom will withdraw by Dec. 31 — a deadline set in a 2008 security agreement between Baghdad and Washington.

But continued violence across Iraq, coupled with growing influence by the Shiite power Iran over the government in Baghdad, prompted the Obama administration earlier this year to push to keep thousands of U.S. troops here for years to come. The two nations negotiated for months over whether U.S. forces should stay — a politically delicate issue for Obama and al-Maliki, both of whom faced widespread opposition from their respective publics to continue a war that was never popular in either nation.

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Bronco wrote:BHO should get full credit for this.

Reminds me of Clinton fighting the welfare reform until it was passed and was successful he then became a big fan''

Ivytalk wrote:Obama flunks foreign policy based on one four-letter word: I-R-A-N.

bluehenbillk wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:Obama flunks foreign policy based on one four-letter word: I-R-A-N.

I'm curious, what do you propose we do differently with them? Engage them?

kalm wrote:

bluehenbillk wrote:
I'm curious, what do you propose we do differently with them? Engage them?

Create a fake Iranian sponsored terrorist plot on US soil, then invade. Oh wait...

CID1990 wrote:

kalm wrote:
Create a fake Iranian sponsored terrorist plot on US soil, then invade. Oh wait...

Welcome back, Spanos.

UNHWildCats wrote:Republicans are saying the US should remain in Iraq and also saying Obama deserves no credit for this withdrawal since the timeline was agreed to by Bush in November 2008.

Yet, it was an Obama type timeline that Bush ultimately agreed to as opposed to the conditions based withdrawal Bush and McCain wanted, so Obama does deserve credit here.

Ibanez wrote:

UNHWildCats wrote:Republicans are saying the US should remain in Iraq and also saying Obama deserves no credit for this withdrawal since the timeline was agreed to by Bush in November 2008.

Yet, it was an Obama type timeline that Bush ultimately agreed to as opposed to the conditions based withdrawal Bush and McCain wanted, so Obama does deserve credit here.

You're a fucking idiot for that last sentence. I think you need to be banned. An "Obama Type Timeline"? Really, so Bush agrees to something BEFORE Obama, but b/c it's something you think Obama would've done, Bush's actions mean nothing? You're such a dipshit. SHouldn't you be occupying Wall Street with the rest of the cry babies?

Ibanez wrote:

UNHWildCats wrote:Republicans are saying the US should remain in Iraq and also saying Obama deserves no credit for this withdrawal since the timeline was agreed to by Bush in November 2008.

Yet, it was an Obama type timeline that Bush ultimately agreed to as opposed to the conditions based withdrawal Bush and McCain wanted, so Obama does deserve credit here.

You're a **** idiot for that last sentence. I think you need to be banned. An "Obama Type Timeline"? Really, so Bush agrees to something BEFORE Obama, but b/c it's something you think Obama would've done, Bush's actions mean nothing? You're such a dipshit. SHouldn't you be occupying Wall Street with the rest of the cry babies?