Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate to be in Iraq expires at the end of the year.
Maliki made the comment after weeks of complaints from Shiite Muslim lawmakers that U.S. proposals that would govern a continued troop presence in Iraq would infringe on Iraq's sovereignty.
"Iraq has another option that it may use," Maliki said during a visit to Amman, Jordan. "The Iraqi government, if it wants, has the right to demand that the U.N. terminate the presence of international forces on Iraqi sovereign soil."
I don't really see how Bush has much choice here.
The whole idea that this administration put forward was deposing Saddam Hussein, getting a democratically elected government in place, and then leave them to run their country.
We all know that that was just a pile of shit they were feeding the American people to get them to buy into their invasion plan, but now that two out of three of those things have happened what choice does Bush and his cronies really have?
And personally I think this solves the problem of when we should pull our troops out of Iraq quite nicely. No more trying to decide what level of violence means we can go, we just wait to asked to leave and we leave.
I think Obama should start playing up this angle big time. maybe when he gets to Iraq he can talk to Maliki, get it straight from the horse's mouth, and come back here telling the American people that the Iraqi's have given us the green light to bring our soldiers home.
What would McCain run on then?
call me a pessimist but watch this somehow "magically" work out for bush
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