Thread: Iraq official: Need dates for U.S. withdrawal

JOM isn't gonna like this......

BAGHDAD - Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, the government's national security adviser said on Tuesday.
The comments by Mowaffaq al-Rubaie underscore the U.S.-backed government's hardening stance toward a deal with Washington that will provide a legal basis for U.S. troops to operate when a U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.

Iraq official presses U.S. for pullout plan - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

Originally Posted by Inkslinger

JOM isn't gonna like this......

BAGHDAD - Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, the government's national security adviser said on Tuesday.
The comments by Mowaffaq al-Rubaie underscore the U.S.-backed government's hardening stance toward a deal with Washington that will provide a legal basis for U.S. troops to operate when a U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.

Iraq official presses U.S. for pullout plan - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

You beat me to it.

As soon as I read this I thought of our own sweet JOM who insists they like us, they really really like us and love our occupation and the violence we have brought into their lives.

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Yeah JOM, whats the deal? I thought they wanted us to stick around?

Originally Posted by Pragmatist

Yeah JOM, whats the deal? I thought they wanted us to stick around?

Go Prag! Nice work.

I can tell you what the Pubs will say......"If we set a timetable the terrorists will mark the pull out date on thier calenders in red ink saying "start blood bath today""

What we should do is make the actual pull out date one week later, psych!!!!

Iraq: No deal without pullout timetable
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:43:42
Iraq says it will not sign a security treaty with the US unless the deal contains a timetable for US troops' pull-out from the country.

"We will not accept any memorandum of understanding that doesn't have specific dates to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq,'' Iraq's National Security Adviser Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie said on Tuesday.

He made the remarks a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he is negotiating with Washington to set a timetable for a full withdrawal of American troops from the country.

The Pentagon, however, said any pull-out would depend on conditions on the ground.

The controversial treaty which is being negotiated by the two sides would allow the US forces to stay in Iraq after their mandate under the UN expires at year's end.

"Our stance in the negotiations underway with the American side will be strong," Rubaie was quoted by AFP as saying.

US officials had no immediate comment on the Iraqi official's remarks.

Talks on the treaty are still deadlocked amid strong opposition from Iraqi political and religious leaders who believe the deal would turn Iraq into a US colony.

Way to go Nouri! I'm starting to like this guy!

It is about time that we ended this, and attempts to stay beyond the U.N. mandated deadline should be met with fierce resistance.

Best news evah, though I agree we need to help them out if they ask us to.

What are they waiting for? If they can't stand our presence, then why are they waiting? I wish they would act faster and stop talking.

Oh yes... the world loves us dearly........

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Doesn't matter; a disobedient Iraq 'official' can easily be disappeared by the neocons. What's another dead Iraqi at this point?