Bush did it. Bush maintained a presence in that rock dump and stopped the jihiddi training camps. We suffered minimal casualties.
Obama, from the time he initiated his presidential campaign asserted that the "real" war was in Afghanistan. As his campaign grew so did his drumbeat that Iraq had no significance while Afghanistan did; even those that supported this stupid statement never elucidated why.
Mr. President, why? Is it that it is a totally meaningless rock on the map that no state leader will be offended by your actions? No one to bow to?