Reply #42: That's right. Funny how SOFA hewed to Candidate Obama's ideas, eh? So much so he joked about it...

[ClarkUSA]

... on the campaign trail.

<<Now we have an explanation that somehow Obama was dictating to Bush.>>

There you go again. Who said "Obama was dictating to Bush"? Not I.

<< Yeah, right, Iraq demanding this time table had nothing to do with it.>>

And you know this how? When Maliki loudly, publicly, endorsed Candidate Obama's timeline after Republicans panned it, it caused quite a quandry for BushCo, who had said all along that they would only stay as long as the government wanted them to be there. Checkmate, Obama. :)

<<And somehow expanding a war in Afghanistan becomes "ending" a war. That's some Orwellian language there.>>

The 2011 timeline to end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is a fact, not "Orwellian language".