Obama blames Bush for ending the war in Iraq

“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision [to end the war in Iraq],” said Obama on August 9, 2014.

Reporting on President Obama’s press conference at Martha Vineyard on Iraq, Karen DeYoung and Loveday Morris from the Washington Post wrote, “As he has repeatedly said in the past, Obama recalled that the withdrawal agreement was made by his predecessor, George W. Bush. Many Republican lawmakers and former Bush administration officials have accused Obama of indirectly causing the current chaos in Iraq by failing to amend that agreement so that he could say — prior to the 2012 presidential election campaign — that he had ended the U.S. war there that began with Bush’s 2003 invasion.”

What ever happened to that great Harry S. Truman statement, “The buck stops here”?

Here is Obama stating unequivocally, and for the record, exactly who ended the war in Iraq:

On June 19, 2014 President Obama in a White House press conference blamed the pull out of U.S. forces on the Iraqi government. Obama was asked if he regretted not leaving a “residual force” in Iraq (at 12:40 into the video). He states it was not his decision and blamed Prime Minister Maliki and the Iraqi government for not reaching a Status of Forces agreement with him giving U.S. troops “immunity.”