Quote Originally Posted by Mean Morone View Post
... I will say that if we had left just a few of our military in Iraq there wouldn't be the turmoil we have now. Just a few soldiers would let everyone over there know that we had an interest in Peace and would do anything to preserve it. BO gave a different impression to those bad guys over there.
So you are saying that Bush made a mistake in 2008 when he set the 2011 timetable for the US being out of Iraq? I believe he wanted to keep a few troops around, but the Iragis were against any American presence there.