edit on 15-12-2011 by GreenFurnNW because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SkipperJohn
We did not withdrawal from Iraq. they kicked the US out. We did not want to leave but forced to.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by SkipperJohn
We did not withdrawal from Iraq. they kicked the US out. We did not want to leave but forced to.
The timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops in Iraq was decided during the Bush administration with the signing of the (SOFA) Status of Forces Agreement between the U.S. and Iraq back in 2008.
The agreement, set a timetable for most U.S. troops to leave Iraq cities on or by 6, 30, 2009, Leaving about 50,000 troops in place until the final withdrawal on or about 12, 31, 2011.
SOFA Status of Force Agreement
." That timetable was actually set in place by a 2008 agreement George W. Bush signed with Iraq, which called for all troops to be out by year's end. In fact, the Obama team had been negotiating with Iraq for a few thousand U.S. troops to stay on past 2011. Iraq balked at American demands that U.S. troops retain legal immunity, and a new deal was scuttled. So really, the U.S. "is being kicked out by the very people that we liberated,"
The inability of the United States and Iraq to agree on legal immunity for American troops led to President Obama’s announcement in October that the last soldiers would leave the country by the end of the year.