I know many of you want to give President Obama credit for ending the war in Iraq and bringing home all the troops. You want to do this even though not all of the troops will get to come home because some will still be needed to protect the U.S. embassy in Iraq and to continue training Iraqis. And you want to do this even though Obama is simply honoring an agreement the Bush administration signed with Iraq in 2008.

Before Sen. Obama could take office, the Bush administration signed an agreement with the Iraqi government drawing the U.S. combat presence in Iraq to a close by the end of 2011. Ultimately, it is the Bush agreement that the president today announced he would honor.

My question is why you are attempting to distort reality to promote your chosen candidate. Aren't we supposed to leave the lying to Republicans? Hasn't Obama done enough in which you can take pride without adding things to his column he hasn't really done?

According to Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, the administration tried to keep even more U.S. troops in Iraq. It was not until negotiations around liability for those troops failed that Obama announced that all would be home for the holidays. And he made this announcement even as he knows at least a couple hundred troops and several thousand contractors aren't going anywhere.

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