As a candidate, President Obama promised to end the conflict in Iraq, and after taking office....
Barack Obama insisted that if elected he would end the Iraq War. In a speech given shortly after his inauguration, he repeated the promise. "Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," he said. "I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011."
The truth is......President Bush had already agreed to end the conflict in Iraq....
During Pres. Bush's last year in office, he agreed to a timetable for troop withdrawals in Iraq: U.S. forces would leave by the end of 2011.
Iraq's 2008 agreement with the George W. Bush administration, leaves about 200 active-duty troops as advisors after December, 2011.