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 ...
Aug 24, 2014 ... Now that the issue of immunity was decided and that no immunity to be given, the  withdrawal has started." Three years later, as the Islamic State advanced in the  country and shocked the world, a CNN reporter asked Obama if he regretted the  decision not to leave a residual force in Iraq. Obama said, "Keep ...
Jun 16, 2014 ... One of the key points of debate in the U.S. over the recent events in Iraq is over  what the U.S. could have done to avert them. If the U.S. still had troops there,  would Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have become the sectarian strongman he  has, would ISIS have established the stronghold it has, etc.? This is a ...
Sep 7, 2016 ... CLINTON: There was -- there was a mistake. Now, my opponent was for the war  in Iraq. He says he wasn't. You can go back and look at the record. He supported  it. He told Howard Stern he supported it. So he supported it before it happened,  he supported it as it was happening, and he is on record as ...
Nov 2, 2007 ... CHICAGO, Oct. 31 — Senator Barack Obama says he would “engage in  aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran if elected president and would offer ...  Mrs. Clinton has said that after carrying out major troop withdrawals she would  leave a residual force in Iraq to fight Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, battle other ...
First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't.