them now? that s a great question. there were 10,000 american troops in iraq until december 2011. boom, they were all gone. the problem is that the obama administration was committed to a timeline inclined to leave before the first day of 2012, and we did. and once we did, there was a tsunami. professor walid phares is also co secretary-general of the transatlantic parliamentary group on terrorism. the author of numerous books and middle east terrorism analyst for fox news. everything in iraq collapsed because of the way we left iraq. when i was out there last year and this year looking at the situation underground, i was told by a good number of particularly kurds that it was