Quote:I find it interesting that u cant actually defend obamas foreign policy and instead want to play word games about the terms "anticipated from the start" ( your term by the way) and "widely anticipated"

I'm not trying to defend Obama's foreign policy. For one, I disagree with most of it, and two, I've already had that argument with you. I find it interesting that you posted a story basically confirming that Obama had no ability to extend or renegotiate the SOFA without support from the US and Iraq (he had support from neither), and somehow are arguing that it confirms that Obama did nothing. Of course he did nothing. The article makes it clear that the parties that had to agree for him to do something made half-[BLEEP] efforts at best. I mean, others within Washington--not President Obama--wanted US soldiers to be immune to Iraqi laws and prosecution. Don't you see why Iraq might have had a problem with that?

 

I don't blame Obama in the least for wanting us out of Iraq. We should never have been there in the first place, and were it not for some careful engineering on the part of the executive branch from 2001-2003, we never would have been.

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