The agreement was negotiated because of MASSIV pressure by Iraq leaders and the US not having the financials or the political support to stay. > This is false.

The agreement was negotiated because of MASSIV pressure by Iraq leaders and the US not having the financials or the political support to stay. > This is false. Sure. If the US really wanted, it could have sustained 1 Million guys there for the next 20 years. This is however totally absurd from a cost benefit analysis and it has absolutely no support in the population, the congress, foreign policy community, budget bureaucrats and essentially everybody accept a tiny group of right wing warmongers. > Also false. At any rate, it was the Iraqis that elected leaders to draft their constitution and developed their government. Clearly you have never read any analysis of the Iraqi state. It was one of the most corrupt in the world. It was politically exclusive to large groups of the population. It was not at all democratic. The constitution was absolutely meaningless. > And the Syrian refugee crisis coupled with our current and future involvement in Syria is free? And the US saying in Iraq would not have prevented the problems that arose from the Arab Spring. If you believe that you live in a fantasy land that nobody can help you out of. Even if that were true, the action in Syria are much, much, MUCH cheaper then a decades long occupation with large ground forces. Maybe read up on the history of foreign occupation in Iraq to give you some estimations what would have happened. Also, the US is not forced to 'stay in Syria'. That another fantasy, some war mongers on both sides convince them selfs of.