From CBS cbsnews.com

(CBS News) Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Sunday joined the chorus of GOP contenders lambasting President Obama for his decision to withdraw nearly all troops from Iraq by the end of the year. She contended that the United States had been “kicked out” of the country “by the very people we liberated,” and that the decision was “more politically-based than military-based.”

Bachmann, in an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said it would be unwise to withdraw troops from the country while its political status remained tenuous, and argued that “if you look at every time we have deposed a dictator, the United States has always left troops behind to be able to enforce the fragile peace.”

Host Bob Schieffer asked Bachmann, “Do you think, congresswoman, that the American people, with the budget situation the way it is, really want to keep a large contingent of American troops in iraq indefinitely?”

“Of course not. No one wants to do that,” she replied, but said there should be a temporary transition.”

“We’re going from the point of leaving to leaving zero troops behind,” Bachmann said. “Once we’re finished in Iraq, we’ll have more troops in Honduras than we’ll be leaving behind in Iraq.”

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“You just said in answer to an earlier question, we always leave troops behind” after a dictator is deposed, Schieffer added. “Shouldn’t that argue that if you’re saying that, that maybe we should figure out some way to leave some troops in Libya. Is that what you’re saying?”

“It appears that that will not be the case, according to the early reports that we’re getting,” Bachmann said. “Again my position was that we should not have gone to Libya in the first place. I opposed President Obama going into central Africa, into Uganda as well.”