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
agreement with the maliki government in iraq. on the status of forces that would be left behind after an 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. they 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.
government in iraq. on the status of forces that would be left behind after an 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. they 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.
government in iraq. on the status of forces that would be left behind after an 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. they 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.
and i commit news tonight. whether they know it in washington or not, i ve spent 11 out of 13 ramadans in that part of the world. here s what s going to happen. come june 28th when ramadan begins, the battle lines are going to be static because they re not going to attack, unless we ve killed a whole bunch of civilians with air strikes without air controllers on the ground. you see, what this administration has done is created a cascade of catastrophe with their dithering and delay, going all the way back to december of 2011 when obama did what the troops call the obama bugout. and you ought not to put americans in harm s way outside that diplomatic mission without a status of forces agreement. so if you can just explain what that means, though, if we get to ramadan and the fighting doesn t continue, the instinct is, well, that s good. but what is the point you re trying to make? what s going to happen is that the battle lines, wherever they are which by the way, wants to try to