Obama's Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama's Enemies

In his Oval Office speech tomorrow night, President Obama will proclaim the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, an end of American combat operations in Iraq. Obama will take credit for living up to a campaign promise by ending operations in Iraq, but he is doing no more than was required by the Status of Forces Agreement the Bush administration negotiated with the Iraqis. More than 4,200 American lives have been lost in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Already, about 100,000 American troops have been withdrawn from Iraq. But nearly 50,000 remain, and more Americans will die in Iraq before all our troops are withdrawn at the end of next year. The neocons are now proclaiming that the troop surge in Iraq “won” the war and that we now have to “win the peace” in Iraq. Which amounts to a re-commitment to their nation-building strategy and would require that which we will not — and should not — do: remain in Iraq indefinitely. What have we accomplished in Iraq?