Some people warned of this "mess"...

[politicman]

41. I am not arguing that Obama deserves initial blame for this mess, I am arguing that by Obama..

returning to the country with military intervention, that he has now put himself in a position where he will be to blame for using American power to support a government that wanted U.S troops to leave even after they died and kept dying to keep that government in power.

Look, either Obama ignores the agreement and keeps troops in the country, OR Obama respects the choice of the Iraqi government and takes troops out AND tells the Iraqi government to go to hell when they come asking for help later on.

The Iraqi government CHOSE not to allow any troops to stay on Iraqi soil after the only reason that that particular government was in power was because of the stupid invasion.
Without Bush's disastrous invasion, Maliki and his 'democratically elected' Shia government would never see an ounce of power in that country, YET they refused to even allow the country that lost 5,000 soldiers in the process of giving them that power, to leave troops behind without having to answer to government that the troops died to bring about.

Heck, even before Obama brought the troops home, Maliki and his cabal were still relying on American forces to maintain their power in the country, YET they still maintained their insistence on the troops leaving.

Even worse, since the U.S left, Maliki and his cabal have been closer to Iran than to the country that lost 5000 soldiers for Maliki and his cabal to be able to have that power, something Saddam would never have let them see.

And for Obama to return with military intervention to support this Iraqi government a measly couple of years later is not on in my books.

So for me its either Obama should have ignored Iraqi government and left troops in the country, OR refuse to provide military intervention for situations like this where the Iraqi government is not capable of maintaining its power on its own country.

I personally don't believe that Obama should have ignored the Iraqi government and left troops there, what I believe is military intervention should never happen to support a government that refused to allow soldiers that were dying to protect it, to stay on its soil.