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Iraqi Parliament: U.S. Out of Iraq
In a comment to a previous blog post about the Baghdad Wall, a reader wrote:
The Iraqis don't want us out (at least not yet). If the Iraqis wanted us out now, they would communicate that to their representatives in the government, who would communicate it to us, and we would then leave. The fact is (as I saw during my time in Korea 30+ years ago), the Iraqis trust the Americans more than the trust fellow Iraqis. Thus, for now, they prefer we stay.
Even this reader must now concede that the Iraqis want us to get the hell out of Baghdad. Yesterday, a majority vote in the Iraqi parliament supported forcing the United States to set a timeline for withdrawal of troops.
So will we or will we not respect the budding Iraqi democracy? Reader poll in the comments section.
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Cameron, what kind of question is that? Obviously we will NOT respect any kind of democracy, not in Iraq, not in the US, not anywhere! As if that was in question, really now ...
The reader you quote doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. We will not leave because the Iraqi people want us to any more than we are leaving because the American people have made it clear that we want out. Bush has stated many times that we will not leave until the job is done. He has never stated just what the job *is* though, so you can be sure that he has no intention of leaving. And he has made it quite clear that he does what he wants with no regard for what any one else thinks. I believe he has made the statement that the next president will inherit this war.
Posted by: DaveD on 05/10/07 at 4:55 AM Respond
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