EQ 13: Iraq War = Bush = SOFA = Iraq Withdrawal

Dear Friends,

The Republicans are blaming President Obama for everything that is going wrong in the world for the most part without any actual basis, but blaming President Obama for the current state of Iraq is absurd.  It was President George W. Bush that pushed us into the Iraq war by lying to the American people.  By toppling Saddam Hussein without being prepared for the aftermath, President Bush allowed the centuries old sectarian hatreds and rivalries to come to the fore.  That very same President Bush negotiated and entered into the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government in November 2008 which required all United States troops to be out in three years.  The allies of President Bush now have the gall to blame President Obama for the current state of Iraq because he removed United States troops too quickly.

So the facts are all on the side of President Obama yet he refuses to call out the Republicans for their lies.  He should be making the facts clear to everybody that the Iraq War was President Bush's war, that President Bush lied to get us into it, that President Bush was unprepared for what would happen after we invaded, that President Bush is responsible for hundreds of thousands of lives lost and ruined, that President Bush set the timetable for withdrawal, that President Bush's policy was a total failure and his execution of that policy was inept and disastrous and that the United States cannot fix Iraq.

It is time for the United States to get out of Iraq.

Thanks for reading and please comment,
The Unabashed Liberal