Oldstyle, post: 21439469,This wasn't something that fell apart during negotiations...it was something that was always going to be and the Iraqi leadership KNEW that Obama was going to pull troops no matter what!
Are you saying there were no negotions?
Are you saying Panetta was lying when he said this: “I can say very clearly that any kind of U.S. presence demands that we protect and provide the appropriate immunity for our soldiers,”
“After months of preparations on both sides for a complete pullout by Dec. 31 of more than 40,000 remaining U.S. troops, the Iraqi government said in recent days that several thousand could stay on as military trainers. The condition, however, is that they lose the legal immunity they now enjoy. It is, an Iraqi government spokesman said this week, the primary dispute preventing an agreement.
On Thursday at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta shot back, saying U.S. troops would not remain in Iraq if they were to be subject to the Iraqi criminal justice system.
“I can say very clearly that any kind of U.S. presence demands that we protect and provide the appropriate immunity for our soldiers,” he said.“
Experts: Immunity dispute won’t end U.S.-Iraq cooperation
Your lie makes no sense. If Iraq could give our troops immunity you are claiming that Obama was negotiating in bad faith and would have refused to keep troops there with immunity.
Think about it. You are lying. Obama wouid have kept troops there if they had immunity.
You're SO full of shit! What Panetta describes in his book is people in the State Department and Department of Defense who were trying their hardest to negotiate a new SOFA with Iraq in order to keep troops in the country but President Obama and his closest White House staff giving those negotiations no backing whatsoever! Panetta explains that there was no way in the world that Maliki was going to fight for a new SOFA in the Iraqi Parliament when he knew that even if he was successful...Obama wasn't going to sign it because he and his little cadre of insiders had already decided pulling out all of the combat troops was going to play well in the upcoming election. So are you calling Panetta a liar?