Iraqi bill demands U.S. troops withdraw

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iraqi bill demands U.S. troops withdraw

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
53 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - 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.

The Sadrist bloc, which sees the U.S.-led forces as an occupying army,
has pushed similar bills before, but this was the first time it had garnered
the support of a majority of lawmakers.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_eu/iraq_politics

[maddezmom]

1. this is getting interesting

K&R

[endarkenment]

2. Ooops: now we will have to be saving them from their freedom.

The grinding over at the spin factory is in overtime.

[okoboji]

3. they must be wrong .....

the people want us there, right? who cares what their government thinks, afterall, we put them in charge, they just have had a momentary lapse in reasoning. Fight them over there, so we ain't fighting them here. We must win the war! On to Iran, for more liberation!

[katsy]

4. Oil

Hand over the oil profits and the occupiers will leave.

[merh]

9. Actually, handing over the oil profits, allowing the US/British oil

industry to have the financial interest in the oil will require we have a presence in Iraq for the length of the agreement (30 years?) - we would have to have troops in the country to protect American interests, wouldn't we (the neocons reasoning).

Here is an interesting read http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2002/1000history.htm

[katsy]

10. Thanks merh...

that's an interesting read.

[merh]

13. you are welcome

I have found that not only is this administration revision history to suit it's needs, it is ignoring it when it interferes with the profiteering and it actually repeats it more times than is healthy for this nation.

I am just unable to understand why those in Congress with some type of functioning brain cell haven't studied the history of the region to see that what we are doing is not new and the past efforts were no more successful than our efforts today.

[bdamomma]

5. why isn't this being reported??

I'm going to send this article to Keith.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. ** won't listen to them. He'll say they need our "help" too much

for us to leave. Because, of course, we know what's better for them than they do.

[bdamomma]

7. kick and recommended.

[bdamomma]

8. I just sent this article to Keith and CNN, this article should be

all over the place, next is NBC News.

[bdamomma]

11. kick

[nitestar41]

12. No Matter who want us there or doesn't

we will stay. We must keep an eye on our interests, we must not allow there to be a hint of them stop fighting among themselves as it will lower oil prices and then our entire economical system will falter. If oil was cheaper gas would be cheaper and then, Oh My! Oh No!, the people in this country could do more "frivolous" shopping and go on vacations. We must not allow the end of everything we've worked so hard for...

Oh yeah wait....

The focus should be that the Iraqi government has finally found a common purpose they have united to get the foreigners out of their country. I say perhaps they finally are listening to the people in their country. The only way they can be truly liberated and unified is if they have to stand on their own. They are making a show of wanting the chance to sink or swim on their own and that is the most important thing... isn't it? Shouldn't it be?

[paparush]

14. This Just In - Bush to Veto Iraqi Goverment's Own Bill

[LynnTheDem]

15. ROTFLMAO!!!

And that's exactly what he will do, of course. That's the not-rotflmao part.

[Cults4Bush]

16. k&r

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. Many things have changed in King George's world since January 29th, 2005

January 29, 2005

GEORGE W.Bush has committed the US to pulling its troops out of Iraq if its new leaders ask them to leave following tomorrow's landmark democratic elections.

However, the US President said he expected the new government, which will inherit a crippling insurgency, would ask US forces to remain "as helpers, not occupiers".
http://agonist.org/story/2005/1/27/195554/963#comment-38246

Psssst... Bush, you've lost control of them. The majority of Iraqi lawmakers have decided it's time to end the occupation. You're poodle is all but gone and the American people no longer believe the steaming pile of bullshit you sold them as being for their own good. Not that I expect that to sway you any in your quest for oil profits.

[skip fox]

18. So who of our two populations want us there? Let me count the ways . . .

Numbnuts
Cheney, his Vice
Limpballs
Hannity
Colter
+ 20% of the America people
and far less than 50% of the Iraqis.

So why are we still there? Could we end up there even if only Numbnuts and Cheney want us there? Why the insanity?

To channel Numbnuts:

"Beter to reign in hell, than serve in heaven."