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Ok, so does this count Mitch?:
Associated Press: Iraq‘s national security adviser says his country will not accept any deal with the United States unless the agreement sets specific dates for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces. [Associated Press, 7/8/08]
Reuters: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday raised the prospect of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of the talks for a new security agreement to replace the U.N. mandate for their presence that expires on December 31. [ Reuters, 7/7/08]
Politico:Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) released a letter today from 31 Iraqi legislators asserting that the proposed agreement is opposed by a majority of the parliament if it does not include a specific timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. military troops. [Politico, 6/4/2008]
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Perhaps, like W., McConnell doesn’t know the meaning of sovereign. Perhaps he thinks it means “subservient to US political and business interests,” in which case the Maliki government falls short.
Love Delahunt.
Mitch McConnell, along with the other Bushites,is still thinking of Iraq as the 51st state. Nice to see the Iraqi’s asserting themselves.
Several Iraqis have voted early in the U.S Presidential race.
They’ve voted for Obama.
Shouldn’t they get purple fingers?
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c varnell
…..to raped Iraq for its oil just as the King mercantiled the American colonist for the benefit of the King. Today’s corporate cohorts in colonial crime are enabled by Executive Oil, while Americans and Iraqis alike are mercantiled! Some mercantiled to death”
This is really amusing – it’s so cute when the Iraqis act like it’s their country, and their oil. Dick Cheney will have to fly over there and shoot Maliki in the face.