GOP ’12 Reacts to Withdrawal from Iraq

Perry: "I'm deeply concerned that President Obama is putting political expediency ahead of sound military and security judgment by announcing an end to troop level negotiations and a withdrawal from Iraq by year's end."

Bachmann: "Today's announcement that we will remove all of our forces from Iraq is a political decision and not a military one."

Santorum: "Iran's influence and the potential creation of an Iranian puppet state in Iraq will have disastrous consequences in the Middle East and around the globe."

Cain: "The thing that I wouldn't do that the president is doing is telling the enemy how many troops you gonna bring out and when you're going to bring them out."

Huntsman: "President Obama’s decision, however, to not leave a small, focused presence in Iraq is a mistake and the product of his administration’s failures."