TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Republicans, in an effort to deflect from Trump's abandonment of the Kurds, point to the decision to abandon Iraq, that Obama had made.  This ignores completely that before Obama ever took office, George W. Bush signed a Status of Forces Agreement providing for our departure from Iraq on a date certain.  To remain longer, the Iraqi government, established during the Bush regime, wanted our troops to be subject to Iraqi law.  Rather than allow this, Obama withdrew our troops "over the horizon".  When our troops came back, it was at the request of a different Iraqi government who agreed to a new status of forces with troops subject to our code of military justice and not Iraq's.