american withdrawal. >> we must be as careful in getting out of iraq as we were careless getting in. >> but obama failed to make a deal with iraq. in december of 2011, he brought all the troops home. >> we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant iraq. >> the quotes that i saw from him on a consistent basis were, this is a fragile situation, but there is a stable government. it's the hard fought efforts of americans that put us into a place where we have a chance. >> but just 24 hours after the last soldier left, iraqi prime minister maliki issued an arrest warrant for his sunni vice president, suggesting the situation in iraq was not as stable as some hoped. and that the threat of sectarian violence remained. >> what maliki did in 2011 forward was to destroy every single chance he had. maliki basically messed up the opportunity that was there. however fragile it may have been. >> in 2012 with the reelection