There's two ways a war can end: 1) one side leaves entirely, 2) conflict ends.
An incomplete withdrawal is not the former, so the only way the Iraq War can be over is if the latter requirement has been fulfilled. In which case, Bush ended the Iraq War, not Obama.
This is a really shitty attempt by Obama to exploit the natural lifespan of war to belatedly cash in on a 2006 promise by the Democratic party that was never carried through. We asked you to stop the war in 2006; waiting until you've done all you wanted to and
then leaving isn't what we fucking asked for.
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Originally Posted by DWarrior
First off, lick my nuts.
Second, "War" is a national action, so yes I think the government (which runs the nation) has a say in what we should consider the war to be. That said, you can still differentiate between a formal war and a large-scale conflict that is a war even though it's not formally a war.
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"War" as a legal term and "war" as an English word are two different things. Nobody is the least bit inaccurate in calling the Iraq War the Iraq War.