claim: the bush administration "pulled the troops out of afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade iraq instead."
author: paul krugman
evidence_1: jan 13, 2017 ... u.s. military forces have been at war for all eight years of obama's ... or military  raids in at least seven countries: afghanistan, iraq, syria, libya ... to the planned  invasion of iraq by the george w. bush administration. ... determined to avoid the  kind of nation building that pulled the u.s. into iraq's civil war, he ...
evidence_2: dec 25, 2014 ... president george w. bush's decision to invade iraq on march 20, 2003, ... the  first order of business was to destroy al qaeda in afghanistan, but the ... caught  off guard again.15 because the bush administration had not acted on ... the  united states to remove its troops from saudi arabia, where they fueled ...
evidence_3: by deciding to invade iraq, the bush administration decided not to do many other  ... i was being pulled apart by the wind and was ready to feel sorry for myself, ....  because it lost time and squandered resources, the united states now has no ....  in afghanistan right away—and that the lack of causal connection between iraq ...
evidence_4: during his presidency, president bush devoted much of his time to foreign ...  presidents generally have more latitude than they do with domestic affairs. ... in  december 1989, the bush administration was notified that noriega's military  forces had killed .... was alarmed at the prospect of iraq controlling kuwait's oil  resources.
evidence_5: the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan describes the draw down of  united states ... "so i want the american people to understand that we have a  clear and ... in addition to the renewed focus on afghanistan, the obama  administration was ... to afghanistan and set july 2011 as the date to begin  pulling u.s. forces out ...