Ntzouras: Obama's Iraq Policy is essentially Bush's.

Couldn't have said it better, from my good friend Andrew Ntzouras, whom I'm hoping will eventually post here and is going to join the line up of Podcast panelists said it best on his Facebook:

Today, President Obama stated that by 2010 all combat troops will leave from Iraq and that by 2011 the remainder of the support troops will do the same.

But this is not new news. This was decided under President Bush's watch.

"President George W. Bush has already signed off on the agreement, which sets legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops and contractors and lays out timetables for withdrawal of U.S. forces. The SOFA calls for all U.S. forces to fall back out of Iraqi cities by June 2009 and to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011."

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/iraq.sofa/index.html

When was this written?
9:45 p.m. EST, Wed November 19, 2008

So in short, President Obama today only repeated what was determined by President Bush last November.

These next few years will be tough no doubt, and the road ahead will have its challenges. I pray God may keep our troops safe from harm, and may God continue to bless America. The greatest country on God's green earth!

-Andrew

Yeah, I agree, although at that time the MSM-types where all arguing that President Bush was following then-Senator Obama's lead (Give me a break!) Still it's interesting that President Obama seems to want to take credit for the withdrawl of troops in Iraq, when it would not have ever been even remotely possible without a massive bloodbath where it not for the troop surge he opposed and said would make violence worse.