Presidential Logic??

The President insists that Democracy cannot flourish with Syrian forces occupying that nation.

Are we not in violation of the President’s own logic by having 150, 000 troops next door in Iraq? If Syria is wrong for having 14,000 troops in Lebanon, isn't the US wrong for having 150,000 troops in Iraq? Adjacent to Lebanon, the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands has now gone on for 37 years? Can democracy flourish in Iraq while occupied by 150,000 foreign troops, or can democracy flourish in Palestinian lands while illegally occupied by Israeli forces? Why is Syria wrong for its occupation, while the US and Israel are not?

If the President would follow his own logic and withdraw every last soldier from Iraq, and Israel would also withdrew its forces from occupied Palestinian lands, while Syria withdraws from Lebanon, the President and I would finally be in agreement.