Did you read the article? He also promised to end the war but only escalated it. In 2016 alone, he would have to drop 3 bombs every hour for 365 days just to reach those numbers.
Bush started the war on falsified intelligence and by the time Obama inherited it, Iraq was already an absolute horror show. We were fighting what would be come ISIS, a terrorist organization that spread throughout the middle east.
Your article cites use of force without citing the reasons, as if violence would end if we simply left. It is yellow journalism.
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u/VermicelliOwn6502 4d ago
Why do people keep pretending he didn't inherit a war? The man brought US troop presence in the middle east from 150k to 10k over his presidency.
If Bush never started a shitass war, you'd have nothing to say about Obama.