On the recordSeptember 11, 2014
I would like to ask the gentleman a question, if he has time for one, because I am struggling a little bit. Byron York has a good article out, published last night at 11:46, where he points out that there are some real potential problems. He says ``five things that could go horribly wrong with Obama's action in Iraq.'' One of them, he mentions the lack of a status of forces agreement. We all know that President Bush had been working on a status of forces agreement. He thought he would leave it to the President to accomplish that great task and have instant international credibility for signing a document immediately like that coming into office, but for whatever reason--we hear a lot of different stories--but it blew up, but the President says that we couldn't leave troops there without a status of forces agreement because you can't have troops in a country where you don't have, for example, an immunity agreement, so that American soldiers, American contractors that are there to help protect Iraq from harm--sometimes, bombs go off in the wrong place. Sometimes, somebody gets killed that wasn't meant to because it becomes a war zone. As the President pointed out before, we couldn't leave troops there because we have no immunity agreement.…
