We learned last Friday that US troops will leave Iraq by the end of 2011.
To be fair, this is the agreement that Pres Bush negotiated with Iraq in 2008.
Nevertheless, the Status of Forces Agreement always contemplated that we would leave troops to protect Iraq and to send a message to Iran.
We are now reading that Pres BO was not engaged in the negotiations:
"Throughout the summer and autumn, as talks on a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq foundered, President Barack Obama and his point man on Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden, remained largely aloof from the process, logs released by the U.S. Embassy here suggest.
The omission would be an unusual one, given the high priority U.S. officials had given to achieving an agreement for some sort of residual U.S. presence in Iraq after the Dec. 31 pullout deadline, and the White House labeled the suggestion inaccurate.
A spokesman said the logs released by the embassy were incomplete."(McClatchy)
We've also heard reports that military officers are not happy with this outcome.
We need further clarification because success in Iraq is in our national interest. Frankly, it does not matter whether you did or did not support the war. That's all history. What matters today is success in Iraq and that will be hard without US troops keeping everyone in their place.
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