Obama the kush kof is doing it at this strategically to help the economy during the election season.
While I think its fine to pull out of Iraq, maybe not quite Afghanistan, This wont help the Obama economy.
True, the 1.42 trillion dollar annual deficit (annual average of Obama regime for first 3 years) will be reduced by about 100 billion by an Iraq pullout. (CBO estimates of savings), but this will take a LONG time to help out the economy.
Im not saying it shouldnt be done, Im just saying there will be no short term improvement, only frictional unemployment, which will be compounded by other forms of unemployment from the sugar high of the stimulus fading.