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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Bush signed the US- Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
The U.S.Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. combat forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.[1] The pact required criminal charges for holding prisoners over 24 hours, and required a warrant for searches of homes and buildings that were not related to combat.[1] U.S. contractors working for U.S. forces would have been subject to Iraqi criminal law, while contractors working for the State Department and other U.S. agencies would retain their immunity. If U.S. forces committed still undecided "major premeditated felonies" while off-duty and off-base, they would have been subjected to an undecided procedures laid out by a joint U.S.-Iraq committee if the U.S. certified the forces were off-duty.[2][3][1][4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement
Fuck you John McGramps!!!
BootinUp
(47,201 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)That Obama was a jerk by withdrawing from Iraq?
I've decided McGramps is getting senile and or has dementia. He should resign from the Senate and go beat his wife some more.
malaise
(269,219 posts)because he created ISIS by withdrawing from Iraq.
Anyone who picked Lady Blah Blah for VP should hve been banished from the Senate
WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)I would make a lot of changes!
jpak
(41,760 posts)Meme killer
malaise
(269,219 posts)Meme killer
potone
(1,701 posts)And it is not just McCain who dishonestly blames Obama for that. I have heard other Republicans say that on talk shows and the moderators never call them out on it. It disgusts me. Obama inherited a terrible situation and did his best to extricate us from the Mideast. Unfortunately the disaster that Bush and Blair created spread to Syria.
His one great mistake was in letting himself get talked into supporting an attack on Libya. Now who, I wonder, was encouraging him to do that? Oh, right, one of our presidential candidates whose "experience" in foreign policy is supposed to be reassuring to us.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You'd have to be some kind of super looking-stuff-up kind of guy to figure out or remember all those little details, like who agreed to withdraw whose troops, and who said things were going to cost less than a billion dollars and be all done within six months. We can argue all day about who signed what agreement and when, but the fact remains that Sen. McCain is darned mad about it all, and Barack Obama is currently sitting in the Oval Office, so that's who we have to blame.
Benghazi!
potone
(1,701 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)Not fucking one of them
Agree re Libya - and then we do have the drones
spanone
(135,900 posts)he's got a lot of fucking nerve.
malaise
(269,219 posts)or judgement
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)From 9/11 to the end, he was their bogey man and they remain traumatized that Obama got him.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)God, those Repub's will say and do anything to get attention.
malaise
(269,219 posts)jackshit
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...when the troops were drawn out of Iraq and most people here were giving Obama the credit.
When those of us who actually follow this stuff pointed out that Obama was following the SOFA signed by Bush in 2007, we were creamed.