So apparently he can't do anything right?

Moammar Kadafi was killed on Thursday, and President Obama announced he is withdrawing all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. Sounds good right?

Not to the republicans.

Part of President Obama’s appeal as president for 2008 was the fact that he said he was going to get the troops out of Iraq. Now three years later, he is finally fulfilling his “promises” he made at the beginning of his presidency. However, now he is getting a lot of heat from the republican presidential nominees.



In this video, on the CBS morning news show Face the Nation, Michele Bachmann says president Obamas decision to pull out the troops is “more political based than it is military based”. However, we are getting kicked out Iraq. It is not only the choice of the United States to pull out the troops. Her points she uses to attack President Obama and his foreign policy are incorrect because no president would leave troops in Iraq after being told they could and most likely would be imprisoned and would lose their immunity. If she were president right now she most certainly would not leave troops in Iraq, which she says; but Obama should? It seems to me Michele Bachmann has a problem more with the Iraq government than she does with Obama, she is just blaming it all on Obama.

Mitt Romney, another republican nominee also commented on Barack Obama’s motives for taking the troops out of Iraq questioning his abilities as the President and a leader. At a campaign stop in Granit State Romney stated:

“The president indicated and his administration indicated over the summer and fall that they were working to have a status of forces agreement that would keep troops in place either 20,000 down to maybe 3,000 over some extended period to make sure there was an effective transition to the Iraqi military… They indicated they were working on that effort and they either failed to do it by virtue of ineptitude or they decided it wasn’t that important politically or otherwise.”

The republicans have decided anything Obama does is not enough and although he is taking the troops out of Iraq, has ended the life of Osama Bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and others during his presidency, nothing Obama does will be good enough and will always be disputed by the republicans.

Another question that should be thought about is, will this help Obama in the polls? Most likely yes it will help him. So many people wanted the troops out of Iraq and now that he says that is going to be done, many people may respect him more. This could be a great political move as well as a military move.

At the same time has he lost some of his voters? Most likely yes as well. He had said he was going to get the troops out of Iraq but was it necessary that it took three years after he got elected to do so?

Taking the troops out of Iraq is most likely a positive factor for Obama’s campaign and will probably help his approval ratings. Obviously taking the troops out of Iraq, was in some ways, a political tactic, as well as most everything is, to get more voter support.

Let’s get real. Obama is doing what the republicans want to do by taking the troops out of Iraq, the republicans just don’t want to admit it. Everyone has wanted the troops out of Iraq, they don’t want us there and now the republicans are getting on Obama's back for taking the troops out of Iraq. Make up your mind...