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Posted by: raats6662 2 months ago

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki publicly announced his countries position that any agreement with the US Government must have a timetable for US troop withdrawal and no US bases in Iraq unless they are controlled by Iraq and not the USA

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raats66622 months ago

How is McCain going to justify "maybe 100 years". And how is Bush going to justify sending MORE troops into Iraq 'in early 2009' if the Iraqi government wants us out of their country?
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  Beau78902 months ago
  
  Unfortunately, he doesn't have to justify that. The Iraqi people can't vote here.
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    miklkit2 months ago
    
    Neither can we.
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    raats66622 months ago
    
    Maybe I should have asked the question differently.......John McCain's one trick pony (the war in Iraq) is now in question. Even the few people who actually support the war in Iraq are going to have a HARD time 'pumping up the war' when even the Iraqi's want this war to end.
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      Beau78902 months ago
      
      If anyone in the media asks him, it'll be hard for him to reconcile his desire to stay there while our primary goal is to build an independent, self-sustaining government with their stated intentions that they want us gone.
      That's if anyone asks him.
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  DropkickaLib2 months ago
  
  ...or at least planes are falling out of the sky and into our buildings.
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    HannibalBarca2 months ago
    
    Which has what to do with Iraq ?
    Afgan yes, but shrub forgot about that didn't he, and OBL, the mastermind of that terrible day.
    So you spin away with your useless comments, as usual, do
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      DropkickaLib2 months ago
      
      ...and you sit and spin focusing on a more important country than your own.
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        HannibalBarca1 month, 4 weeks ago
        
        But you never addressed my point, cause as usual the people of this less important ( only in your feeble pea brain mind)always out think you. ROTFLMAO
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        DropkickaLib1 month, 4 weeks ago
        
        Yawn!
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      DropkickaLib1 month, 4 weeks ago
      
      ...and you are a pathetic, drunken fugitive from the 60s, badwifebeatingdad.
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Beeboppin712 months ago

The article that your link points to is a much different article than the one I've just read. The one that I've read is very vague about Iraq's plans for US troop withdraw. Here is the title and a blurb from that article:
Iraqi Favors Short Security Pact With U.S.
BAGHDAD â;; Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki publicly confirmed Monday that his government was leaning toward concluding a short-term security pact with the United States instead of a broader agreement that would last for years. The legal authority for American troops in Iraq is now provided by a United Nations mandate that expires at the end of the year. Iraq and the United States have been negotiating details of a broad new agreement that would formalize the security relationship, but with elections nearing in both countries and opposition likely from the Iraqi Parliament, Iraqi leaders seemed to be opting for a narrower and short-term pact.
Could you send me the correct link. I'd like to read it.
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  Beau78902 months ago
  
  I don't know if you're questioning whether Maliki a timetable for American withdrawal, and this NY Times story doesn't specifically say so.
  But here's a link to an NPR report that aired this morning, asserting the same thing in the headline and summary of this story.
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...
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muhairi82 months ago

So they are kicking the Americans out
can I ask now what did the Americans get from invading Iraq ??? changed the government, thats it ??
- Spent more than $500 billion.
- 33000 casualties, more than 29000 wounded and 4115 dead.
is it worth it ???
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  HannibalBarca2 months ago
  
  Ask the oil companies, Boeing, Lockheed,hallibortion, blackwater and many more.
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