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Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob
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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To be fair, Obama couldn't do much to stop the war back in 06.
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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.
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But Micah's comment was along the lines of "were we ever technically in a war?"