Questions for President Obama

By Mona Charen

Published June 20, 2014 4:54pm ET

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A few questions for President Obama.

At your press conference, you said, “It is in our national security interest not to see an all-out civil war in Iraq.” If that is the case, why did you withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011? Were you motivated by something other than U.S. national interests?

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