Iraqi security forces pay tribute at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier during the celebrations of Iraq's sovereignty day, Baghdad, Iraq, June 30, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Tommy Avilucea From Kabul To Baghdad -- And Back -- Real Clear Politics
This week, American troops start leaving Iraqi cities in compliance with both former President George W. Bush's negotiated start date for withdrawal and President Barack Obama's campaign pledge. Given Bush's profound commitment to succeed in Iraq, if he were still in office and if he judged such a scheduled removal of troops to be dangerous, he doubtlessly would have postponed the action -- just as he changed his strategy and ordered the surge against the advice of most of his government and most of Washington in 2007.
Yet it was that surge and the changed strategy designed and led by Gen. David Petraeus that left Iraq at noon Jan. 20 largely peaceful and on a steady march to a stable, friendly, representative government.
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