Perform and sowm the administration sought to main tankers they couldnt tell us or the iraqis. The white house still had not made a decision. It went on like this for the next few months. By august 2011, the leaders of iraqs main political blocks states they were prepared to enter negotiations to keep some u. S. Troops in iraq. An ir entire month passed and sl the white house made no decision. All the while during this inte internal deliberation as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general Martin Dempsey later testified before the Senate Armed Services committee, the size of a potential u. S. Force presence kept cascading down from upwards of 16,000 to an event low of less than 3,000. By that point the force would be able to do little rather than protect itself and Prime Minister maliki and other iraqi leaders realized that the political cost of accepting this proposal was not worth the benefit. To blame this failure entirely on the iraqi iraqis is conveniet it misses the real poin
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