Comments on: Iraqi PM Demands U.S. Pullout Timetable

Al-Maliki Says Security Pact With The U.S. Must Include "Specific Deadline"

[realpatriot1]

It''s time for McCain & Bush to put the good of the country ahead of winning an election.

[riddelup-2009]

They want us out we want out where is the disconnect?

[screan_name]

The American people want us out.

The Iraqis want us out.

What''s there to argue about?

[marshall65]

Bush has already committed, on numerous occasions, to pull out of Iraq if the government requests we pull out.

We''re not staying and the ME will be something we will have to live with for years. Read On Point II-we messed things up so bad over there it will take a long time to recover. People in Baghdad are still struggling to get drinking water.

[talkingham]

Hunterdon, I suggest you and your family move to Iraq and do some more good.

[talkingham]

Why not just leave... today. That would show these tirds and what would we lose.

Evidently to Bush and McCain, winning in Iraq means the establishment of a radical Shiite government in Iraq because that is all we have accomplished. We really should leave today, I doubt they would miss us.

[leftyintexas]

Hahahahaha! Where are all the republicons now? No response? I guess they''re speechless! Hahahahaha!

[ibzjem]

Yep, time to go. I''ve spoken to a number of army VETs that have served multiple tours over there and they say it''s time to go. It''s time Iraq provide for themselves now.

[jgunther7]

Russia is already building a new Mediterranean sea port in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad is meeting with President Medvedev in Moscow to sign new agreements. The US though they could control Iraqi oil production with a naval blockade of Basra, however a direct outlet on the med would give Iraq complete independence.

[hunterdon6]

There has been alot of good done over in Iraq. It just never gets reported. Good does not sell newspapers or get high ratings at the 6 o''clock news. The old saying is " if it bleeds it leads". Time will heal all wounds.

[boandco]

Six years ago the Iraqi people had a lot of respect and admiration for the United States. The US invasion went virtually unopposed. Now the US Army has instilled a deep hatred for everything American that will last for generations. They will form alliances with Iran, Syria, China and Russia and exclude anything to do with the US. We are the people that murdered their mothers and fathers, their brothers and sisters and their cousins. We have destroyed their country.

[jgunther7]

docpeter, they would be very happy to see us leave like yesterday. Al-Maliki is already drawing up oil contracts with China, and the Russians and Syrians are working on a pipeline deal that would take Iraqi oil straight through to the Mediterranean. The Russian military would protect it with an anti-missile shield.

[docpeter-2009]

From the above article, "Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday no security agreement with the United States could be reached unless it included a "specific deadline" for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq."
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I got a time table for you, how about we leave today?

Think you and yours can handle the "insurgents"?

[miamiderick]

It doesn%u2019t matter what he agrees with Bush. Bush will be gone shortly, and who ever takes over will not honor his agreement.

[brianbwb-2009]

Even a Bushpuppet like Maliki knows his limits, the US military will be of no help in the face of imminent mass uprisings, so the US had better clear out before they cause him to be lynched, the more he supports the US, the more of an enemy to his own people he becomes.

Now is the best chance he has of keeping his hand on the oil spigot, any earlier and he would have had to share control with Al Sadr (and Al Sadr would have gotten the lion''s share, which still might happen), any longer and he might be a little too dead to be the bartender.

Besides he also knows that a president Obama would pull out even faster than Bush/McSame, so he tries to help the puppetmaster save some false pride, and pretend that they "won" something, while simultaneously appearing to the less educated among the Iraqis as if he is actually ordering the US out, and that the US is actually following "his" demand.

[underdogus87]

We''re in a catch 22 we can''t stay and we can''t leave!!

[thegoodtexan]

al-Maliki dosn''t seem to be taking the bait. Maybe he would believe a "Time Mirage" or a "Smoke and Mirrors Draw Down". Phoney Bush has been having a hard time bambuseling people lately. First Putin, now al-Malili.

[liberalme]

This is THEIR country--they NEVER invited us there--there was absolutely no reason to go there and now they want us out!!

YIKES!!!
Before Bush gets the oil????

Loser Bush, Loser Rice, Loser Cheney--your "party" is over!!!

Get us OUR of Iraq!!!!

[ajayvee]

I just can''t understand this al-Maliki. He is the puppet-head of a conquered and humiliatingly occupied land and as such his job is to obey. He is in no position to ''demand'' anything. For goodness sakes, will someone please tell this fool once and for all not to take his make-believe title too seriously,