Obama: Pulling All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Was Not ‘My Decision’ | CNS News.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and President Barack Obama (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – When he was running for re-election in 2012, President Barack Obama repeatedly took credit for ending the war in Iraq and bringing all U.S. troops home from that country. Today, at the White House, however, when talking about his decision to use military force against the al-Qaida-related ISIS terrorist group in Iraq, Obama said that removing all U.S. troops from Iraq was not “my decision.”
“But here’s the thing, is you know I say what I mean and I mean what I say,” Obama said in Hollywood, Florida on Nov. 4, 2012. “I said I’d end the war in Iraq–I ended it.”
The statement was similar to many others Obama made on the campaign trail in the 2012 campaign.
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