The Iraq Conflict: Hard to Find Support for Renewal Anywhere

Could the U.S. Have Stopped the Collapse of Iraq? (Joshua Keating) from Slate
"Given that he was elected in large part to end the war, and that the war continued for three years and hundreds more soldiers died under this presidency, it’s not very realistic to expect that he would have expended much effort and capital prolonging a military operation that neither the Iraqi government nor the American people supported anymore."