NEWSMAX: Republican politicians have voiced mixed views about President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that all U.S. troops will come home from Iraq by year’s end. Presidential candidates and at least two senators have blasted the policy, but other Republicans have voiced praise, mild criticism, and, in some cases, no opinion at all, The Hill reports.
Obama decided to withdraw all the troops after his administration couldn’t reach an agreement with the Iraqi government over the terms of keeping a small U.S. troop contingent in the country.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the GOP’s presidential front-runner, accused Obama of “an astonishing failure” to reach an accord with Iraq. Other candidates charged that Obama’s approach was a political one, bringing the troops home to earn votes in next year’s election. … (more)
EDITOR: Have they forgotten that it was President George W. Bush who set the time table for withdrawing American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011?
