Sep 11, 2014 ... and former White House press secretary Jay Carney after President Obama's  speech is an excellent example of how Republicans and Democrats in  Washington ... “I said I'd end the war in Iraq. ... The president has never made a  statement during that or after that he wanted a residual force left behind.
May 18, 2015 ... We wondered if it was true that Obama could have signed a deal to leave 10,000  U.S. troops in the country after the war's end. The exit. When Obama took office in  January 2009, he inherited a plan that President George W. Bush forged in 2008  with then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. That Status of ...
Oct 21, 2011 ... BAGHDAD — President Obama's announcement on Friday that all American  troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year was an occasion for ... This year,  American military officials had said they wanted a “residual” force of as many as  tens of thousands of American troops to remain in Iraq past 2011 as ...
Aug 13, 2015 ... President Bush signed an agreement that required us to be out by the end of  2011. The Obama administration urged [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] to  approve our leaving a residual force behind. But Prime Minister Maliki … made it  clear that he could not get the Iraqi parliament to do that. Not even for ...
Dec 19, 2015 ... Republicans have hammered President Obama for underestimating ISIS and  naively allowing it to grow by leaving Iraq. But the ... "The agreement lays out a  framework for the withdrawal of American forces in Iraq — a withdrawal that is  possible because of the success of the surge," he said in a joint press ...
Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."