Iraq

     President Obama has announced the end of the Iraq War by the holidays (Politico.com).  One explanation for the rapid withdrawal is Obama's inability to cut a deal granting U.S. troops immunity from Iraqi law.  What a nice thank you after spending ten years and billions of dollars freeing the country.  But more importantly, it shows the absolute impotence of Obama and the rest of the world's complete lack of respect for him.
     The terrorist world grows more bold in the face of the current U.S. presidency.  Just recently Iran, a terrorist country who has been trying to build a nuclear bomb, tried to kill the Saudi ambassador on American soil (FoxNews.com).  The apparent Arab Spring, the so-called Middle East democracy movement supported by the administration, is proving to be a terrorist Muslim dictatorship/theocracy movement.  In Egypt Christians are being murdered (TheGlobeAndMail.com), and Syria continues to slaughter its own people (PajamasMedia.com).  And the country we are withdrawing from makes supporting Israel a capital offense (CNSNews.com).
     President Obama knows this does not look good for him, and he is trying to pass this all off as beneficial for him and American national security.  He made the silly claim that ending the Iraq War has helped us get Osama bin Laden (CNSNews.com) and still takes credit for the "democratic" Arab Spring movement (Sweetness-Light.com).
     His main reason, I believe, for leaving Iraq: re-election.  His base is fiercely anti-war, and he needs to shore them up.  The Iraq War angered the far-left during the Bush administration.  By ending it he makes his cook, fringe, left-wing base happy and shows he is a man of his word for fulfilling a campaign promise.  Too bad he continues to lie about almost everything else.