How often do people imagine a US President makes a policy decision?

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6. this itself is a myth, the powerless president

think about the Iraq war. Everyone knows about the cabal behind Bush that were the ones that really wanted the war. Yes they are to blame for the war but their power was totally dependent on how much they could influence Bush.

And those same people wanted regime change back in 1991, why didn't they get it then? Because of Poppy Bush.

And they wanted regime change in Iran. Why didn't they get it? Because of W.

And why are we out of Iraq now? Because of Obama. People talk about the withdrawal agreement, but if a president wanted to negotiate it so that we stayed, they could have. In fact I thought that's what Obama was going to do. When he didn't, I realized he didn't want to stay. And that's the reason we left, because Obama fortunately wanted to get out.