I want us out of Iraq, Afghanistan & Libya. I might need to just quit even worrying about Obama & his 3 wars. I will concentrate on the deficit here.

On Monday, June 27, 2011, this appeared in The Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. is . . . committed to withdrawing all of its remaining 45,000 troops from Iraq by year-end; some U.S. military officials want some troops to stay to serve as a check on Iran, but Iraqi hostility to the U.S. presence has been an obstacle.

On Sunday, July 3, 2011, this appeared in The Washington Post:

The United States remains open to keeping thousands of troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year if asked, but will require Iraqi forces to provide them with greater security, the U.S. envoy to Iraq said Saturday.

Ambassador James F. Jeffrey told reporters at a roundtable in the capital that the Obama administration would consider a request to keep some of the roughly 46,000 U.S. troops here, but added, “We do need the Iraqi forces to help us secure our troops and, frankly, to secure themselves.”