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malaise

(268,997 posts)
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:33 PM Jun 2016

George Bush signed the US- Iraq Status of Forces Agreement

The U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. combat forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.[1] The pact required criminal charges for holding prisoners over 24 hours, and required a warrant for searches of homes and buildings that were not related to combat.[1] U.S. contractors working for U.S. forces would have been subject to Iraqi criminal law, while contractors working for the State Department and other U.S. agencies would retain their immunity. If U.S. forces committed still undecided "major premeditated felonies" while off-duty and off-base, they would have been subjected to an undecided procedures laid out by a joint U.S.-Iraq committee if the U.S. certified the forces were off-duty.[2][3][1][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement

Fuck you John McGramps!!!
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George Bush signed the US- Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (Original Post) malaise Jun 2016 OP
K & R BootinUp Jun 2016 #1
What did that old fool say now? WhiteTara Jun 2016 #2
That Obama is responsible for Orlando malaise Jun 2016 #6
Or the human race! WhiteTara Jun 2016 #13
They should put me in charge for a day malaise Jun 2016 #15
Oh to be queen of the universe WhiteTara Jun 2016 #16
No, no, no - it wuz Obummer - the Secret Kenyan Muslin!!!!1111 jpak Jun 2016 #3
That's my role in life malaise Jun 2016 #8
Yes, he did! potone Jun 2016 #4
Well come on, now gratuitous Jun 2016 #7
LOL malaise Jun 2016 #11
Thank you! That was priceless! potone Jun 2016 #20
Yep I haven't heard one hack raise the simple fact that I posted malaise Jun 2016 #9
thank you!!!!! spanone Jun 2016 #5
A lot of nerve and no sense malaise Jun 2016 #12
Yep. I've been murmuring it all day. That &(Mc Cain..." yea.I know where Os ama is.") Fool. The Wielding Truth Jun 2016 #10
I will never ever forget how upset ReTHUGs were when bin Ladn was killed malaise Jun 2016 #14
Yea, and if Mc Cain knew where he was wouldn't it have been treasonous not to tell. The Wielding Truth Jun 2016 #17
McCain didn't know malaise Jun 2016 #18
That is quit a change from... bvar22 Jun 2016 #19
Valid point malaise Jun 2016 #21

WhiteTara

(29,713 posts)
2. What did that old fool say now?
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:40 PM
Jun 2016

That Obama was a jerk by withdrawing from Iraq?

I've decided McGramps is getting senile and or has dementia. He should resign from the Senate and go beat his wife some more.

malaise

(268,997 posts)
6. That Obama is responsible for Orlando
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:49 PM
Jun 2016

because he created ISIS by withdrawing from Iraq.

Anyone who picked Lady Blah Blah for VP should hve been banished from the Senate

potone

(1,701 posts)
4. Yes, he did!
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:46 PM
Jun 2016

And it is not just McCain who dishonestly blames Obama for that. I have heard other Republicans say that on talk shows and the moderators never call them out on it. It disgusts me. Obama inherited a terrible situation and did his best to extricate us from the Mideast. Unfortunately the disaster that Bush and Blair created spread to Syria.

His one great mistake was in letting himself get talked into supporting an attack on Libya. Now who, I wonder, was encouraging him to do that? Oh, right, one of our presidential candidates whose "experience" in foreign policy is supposed to be reassuring to us.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Well come on, now
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:49 PM
Jun 2016

You'd have to be some kind of super looking-stuff-up kind of guy to figure out or remember all those little details, like who agreed to withdraw whose troops, and who said things were going to cost less than a billion dollars and be all done within six months. We can argue all day about who signed what agreement and when, but the fact remains that Sen. McCain is darned mad about it all, and Barack Obama is currently sitting in the Oval Office, so that's who we have to blame.

Benghazi!

malaise

(268,997 posts)
9. Yep I haven't heard one hack raise the simple fact that I posted
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:51 PM
Jun 2016

Not fucking one of them

Agree re Libya - and then we do have the drones

malaise

(268,997 posts)
14. I will never ever forget how upset ReTHUGs were when bin Ladn was killed
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 06:56 PM
Jun 2016

From 9/11 to the end, he was their bogey man and they remain traumatized that Obama got him.

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
17. Yea, and if Mc Cain knew where he was wouldn't it have been treasonous not to tell.
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 07:17 PM
Jun 2016

God, those Repub's will say and do anything to get attention.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
19. That is quit a change from...
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:26 PM
Jun 2016

...when the troops were drawn out of Iraq and most people here were giving Obama the credit.
When those of us who actually follow this stuff pointed out that Obama was following the SOFA signed by Bush in 2007, we were creamed.

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