5/30/15
Baghdad
Former US envoy to Iraq , Paul Bremer , that witnessed what Iraq currently, came as a result of the withdrawal of President Barack Obama for US forces in 2011.
Bremer said in an interview to CNN that "from my point of view there are three things we have done in Iraq, first we expand the air campaign is far more than it is at the moment," noting that "there are currently about 14 air strike in the day, three quarters back without bombing targets. "
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Bremer said that "the second thing is the need of the elements on the ground to guide air strikes," he said. "The third thing is we have to start sending weapons to the Sunni tribes and Kurds."
"I must work to achieve the goals set by the US president a defeat Daash , and must defeat in front of the world, because America's credibility is on the line. "
In response to the criticism directed at him during the period of his service in Iraq, such as the dismantling of the army, said Bremer that "al-Qaida in Iraq, was defeated at the hands of the Iraqi army, which was trained by US forces," explaining that "by the end of 2009, Al-Qaeda in Iraq ended, and this What the President Obama admitted when he took his presidency, where he said he received the Iraq file a stable and democratically. "
He said the "main problem we face today is the ruling of the President by the end of 2011 to withdraw all US troops from Iraq, and this is the main reason for our vision of the new-born al-Qaida in Iraq, which calls itself now organized Daash," adding that "the instability of Iraq came because of Obama's troop withdrawal US and this is a big mistake. "
The US forces completed a formal withdrawal from Iraq in December 31, 2011, and focus axis of its work after the training of Iraqi forces, while the US ambassador in said Baghdad at the time, James Jeffrey, said his country would work with Iraq to no end, calling on withdrawal as a "Day New in the history of the Iraqi and American peoples. "
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