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Last Friday, President Obama announced a total troop withdrawal from Iraq at the end of year to signify that “after nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” Naturally, the 2012 GOP presidential field took this historic opportunity to unleash vitriol on the president for his decision. Mitt Romney called it an “astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition,” wondering whether “naked political calculation or simply sheer ineptitude” was behind it. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called it a “complete failure,” while Jon Huntsman downgraded it to a “mistake.” Yesterday on CBS’s Face the Nation, candidate Rick Santorum joined the “scathing” peanut gallery by telling host Bob Schieffer that Obama essentially “lost the war in Iraq“:
SANTORUM: We have a President who is not able to set conditions and to actually have the kind of influence over the Iraqi government. Now three years the President has had to– to work with the Iraqi government to try to mold and shape that relationship. And to be in a position where really the Iranians now have more sway over the Iraqi government than the United States just shows the weakness of our– our diplomatic effort, the weakness of this President, in being able to shape the battlefield if you will. And I think that’s the reason people were so upset that, you know, we’ve lost– in many respects we’ve lost control and lost the war in Iraq, because we have Iran having broadened its sphere of influence.
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