07-19-2018, 01:39 PM
(07-19-2018, 01:20 PM)JDG 66 Wrote:(12-12-2016, 01:21 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: ...Bush went into Iraq with the notion that we could leave when the new government asked us to leave. He and his minions gave the new Iraqi government that we installed the notion that they were sovereign. Bush worked out the timetable for leaving; Obama just followed it...
I dread Trump taking over the war on IS...
1) The Iraqis were willing to let us stay (and would work around the SOFA issue), but Obama didn't want to, because "IRAQ! Darth Cheney! Bushitler, Bushitler, Bushitler!" You remember, don't you Eric?
2) The war vs. IS progressed dramatically when Trump took of the gloves. I guess your astrology must've been a little off on that one...
The timing of it that I thought of, was off. But I did see resolution of some conflicts in 2017, so maybe I wasn't entirely off.
No, the Iraqis were not willing for us to stay.