Thread: Bush Says We Will Leave When Iraqi Leaders Want Us To Leave. They Do.

"We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a Constitution. It's their government's choice. If they were to say, leave, we would leave."
—President George W. Bush during a Rose Garden press conference on the compromise that was finally reached with Democrats on Iraq funding.



Didn't he get the memo? That have recently said exactly that.



Iraqi Lawmakers Back Bill on U.S. Withdrawal - washingtonpost.com

Iraqi Lawmakers Back Bill on U.S. Withdrawal




By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 11, 2007; Page A12


BAGHDAD, May 10 -- A majority of members of Iraq's parliament have signed a draft bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels. The development was a sign of a growing division between Iraq's legislators and prime minister that mirrors the widening gulf between the Bush administration and its critics in Congress.

The draft bill proposes a timeline for a gradual departure, much like what some U.S. Democratic lawmakers have demanded, and would require the Iraqi government to secure parliament's approval before any further extensions of the U.N. mandate for foreign troops in Iraq, which expires at the end of 2007.

"We haven't asked for the immediate withdrawal of multinational forces; we asked that we should build our security forces and make them qualified, and at that point there would be a withdrawal," said Bahaa al-Araji, a member of parliament allied with the anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters drafted the bill. "But no one can accept the occupation of his country."

In Iraq and the United States, there is deepening frustration among lawmakers and the public over President Bush's troop buildup, a policy that has yet to prevent widespread killing in Iraq. At the same time, Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are dispatching their emissaries in an urgent transatlantic gambit to shore up support.

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I hope we are getting packed to go.

"Buh-Bye. We know you had no choice of occupiers. But, thanks for doing business with us anyway.
Buh-bye now. Watch your step." :waving:

Astounding.

But the Decider has spoken.

Originally Posted by Davocrat

Astounding.

But the Decider has spoken.

And he NEVER lies. So, we know that the troops will be heading home any day now.

:whistling:

Dosn't count, only Bush's sock-puppet friend is the legitimate voice of the Iraqi people....

Another liberal circle jerk thread.

Liberal 1: Bush is bad.

Liberal 2: Bush is VERY bad.

Liberal 3: Bush ran over my kitten.

Liberal 4: Bush is THE DEVIL!

Liberal 5: I know, that Bush is a bad man.

What's the point of this thread?

"We haven't asked for the immediate withdrawal of multinational forces; we asked that we should build our security forces and make them qualified, and at that point there would be a withdrawal," said Bahaa al-Araji,

Isn't this what Bush has been saying all along?

Originally Posted by Sparta

Isn't this what Bush has been saying all along?

That's what I thought.

It is all telling how the article is slanted. The lawmakers are basically saying: as soon as the Iraq military and police can handle it, the US should depart. the title of the article could have been: "Iraq demands the US stays"

Originally Posted by justoneman

It is all telling how the article is slanted. The lawmakers are basically saying: as soon as the Iraq military and police can handle it, the US should depart. the title of the article could have been: "Iraq demands the US stays"

hsnap: Don't tell the original poster that.