nuri al maliki ran for office saying there would be no u.s. troops unless they were under iraqi law. we are going around in circles. nuri al maliki a great excuse for the president to do something! nuri al maliki is by all accounts the problem. as soon as u.s. troops left iraq in 2011 you ve had five years to deal with it! i was on the border of the kuwaiti/iraqi border and my point let me finish the question. when u.s. forces left within 24 hours, he was rounding up sunni opponents and threatening to put the vice president on trial. why was the u.s. not able, with all of the weaponry and support it s given the iraqis, why was it not able to put their hand on nuri al maliki and said be inclusive the way you promised? look what happened because he did the opposite. because we stupidly lost the