UPI: Iraqi Lawmakers Demand US Withdrawal

[RiverStone]

BAGHDAD, May 2 (UPI) -- As calls in the U.S. Congress grow for a scheduled troop withdrawal from Iraq, similar demands are escalating in Iraq's National Assembly.

Some 133 Iraqi lawmakers from different political blocs, calling themselves the "free deputies," signed a document demanding a scheduled withdrawal of the U.S.-led multinational troops from their country, according to the Sadrist bloc in Parliament.

A legislator from the Sadrist bloc, Saleh al-Okaili, told reporters Wednesday that his group initiated the document ahead of a U.N. Security Council review on Iraq slated for next month. The Sadrist bloc, whose Cabinet ministers had resigned, represents members of a group led by Shiite maverick leader Moqtada Sadr, who has been calling for setting a timetable to end the U.S.-British occupation of Iraq.

Okaili said the memo signed by the lawmakers in the 275-seat Parliament would be handed over to the U.N. Security Council and its secretary-general, the Organization of Islamic Conference and the Iraqi government.

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http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Briefing/2007/05/02/iraqi_lawmakers_demand_us_withdrawal/

[MasonJar]

1. Close to 50%.....didn't the Stump say that he would leave when the

Iraqis asked us to leave?

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Cancel the benchmarks!

Didn't Bush at one time say that we're there at the "invitation" of the Iraqi Government?

[NMDemDist2]

3. I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting to hear this on MSM

but one can hope eh?

[Nickster]

4. What? They think they're sovereign or something?? n/t

[snappyturtle]

5. This is glorious! Thank you "free deputies"! nt

[krkaufman]

6. I'm with Tommy Thompson... put it to a vote.