He didn’t so much “bring them home” as he was forced to withdraw them. Obama fought like hell to keep troops in Iraq, but when Manning and Wikileaks revealed more crimes committed by U.S. forces than previously known, Iraq insisted that any soldier breaking the law in Iraq be subjected to Iraqi law. They wouldn’t budge on that, and so the troops came home.
Manning is vastly more responsible for ending our involvement in Iraq than Obama could have been, considering Obama’s efforts to the contrary.
