Does it really matter?
posted by
Dookie The Webmaster
7:56 AM
Ya right. When they stand up, we stand down, blah blah blah.
Bush: 'US would leave if Iraq asks'
May 24th, 2007
Washington - US President George W Bush, who has warned that a hasty US pullout from Iraq would be catastrophic, said on Thursday that US forces would leave if the fledgling Baghdad government asked them to.
"We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation," he said at a White House press conference.
"If they were to say 'leave', we would leave." Hey President Pissypants! Don't you remember this? We do:
Iraqi Bill Demands U.S. Troops Withdraw
May 10th, 2007
BAGHDAD (AP) - A majority of Iraqi lawmakers have endorsed a bill calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and demanding a freeze on the number of foreign troops already in the country, lawmakers said Thursday.
The legislation was being debated even as U.S. lawmakers were locked in a dispute with the White House over their call to start reducing the size of the U.S. force here in the coming months.
The Iraqi bill, drafted by a parliamentary bloc loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, was signed by 144 members of the 275-member house, according to Nassar al-Rubaie, the leader of the Sadrist bloc.
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