Huh? Hasn't that already happened?
A majority of members of Iraq's parliament have signed a draft bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels.And again in 2006.
A timetable for withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq. Amnesty for all insurgents who attacked U.S. and Iraqi military targets. Release of all security detainees from U.S. and Iraqi prisons. Compensation for victims of coalition military operations. These sound like the demands of some of the insurgents themselves, and in fact they are. But they're also key clauses of a national reconciliatin plan drafted by new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...And back in 2005.
Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media on June 19.Go figure. Maybe they just didn't say "please."
Reader Comments ( Page 2 of 3)
16. JOEM....this war has'nt been run by anyone. It has been a cluster F**k UP from begining to tomorrow.
Ed at 10:44PM on May 24th 2007
17. joem #15 you need to shut your pie hole fellow people like you are exactly why our country has gone to hell. This administration you support is taking away yours and your childrens very freedom. Bush is not one bit better than any terrorist in this world. He wants this country to be a dictatership SOOOOO BBAAAAADDDDD and it's idiots like you that make him think he can do it. I hope they drowned you and him in gasoline before you both go to hell.
when I am president at 10:50PM on May 24th 2007
18. We have institutionalized a greater magnitude of deliberate wickedness and violence than we could have ever imagined thanks to that low-life criminal of Bush. For sheer profit alone that relentless pig has raped our Constitution and our country, thinly pretending to be pursuing lofty goals. Life does not accept the cheap convenience of willful ignorance as an excuse.
This is the darkest and most decisive moment in our history. Whether the majority of Americans will soon face the horrors of what they have condoned under glaringly false pretense is unlikely.\but there will be no turning back.
What are we waiting for : why not impeach those pigs in the white house.
Bush and most of his cabinet belong in jail, not in office.
I feel sick to realize that among our citizenry there are still so many violently ignorant and unaware people who support Bush.
Dr. Asturi at 12:27AM on May 25th 2007
19. GWB has a patent on stupidity. he said we'll leave if Iraq asked us to. He means the prime minister whom he knows does not dare to ask. The Iraq people sunnis and shiites shout daily for the US to leave but GWB does not hear that. Saddam was bad but he didn't know how STUPID the US IS(BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS to invade Iraq, Saddam knew how MESSY it is going to be. Too bad US rushed to execute Saddam, they could have returned him to power to restore order. The US will fight for now but like they did in Vietnam will soon make a RUN FOR IT leaving every thing behind (HUMVEES, BLACK HAWKS). I don't mean to scare your pants off but it does not look very good. So my advice to every American is DUMP YOUR SUVs AND DUMP THOSE BIG OIL STOCKS AND BUY THOSE BICYCLES NOW BEFORE THE PRICES GO UP. GOOD BYE OIL....
Bob at 12:22AM on Jun 19th 2007
20. "If we leave Iraq and allow terrorists to buy weapons with oil revenue our children will have to go back and take those weapons away from them, again, for a third time."
Pete, doesn't that presuppose that terrorist will be able to 1.) Take over in Iraq, and 2.) sell oil in an open market, or for that matter the black market? For the sake of discussion I will entertain your idea.
"If Iraq Ask, We'll Leave?" Iraq is in the same fight that we are. They too are fighting against Al Qaeda. If they are asking us to leave, then aren't they saying that they can take over and handle the fight by themselves? Just as we don't want the terrorist to gain control over Iraqi oil the Iraqis don't want the terrorist to gain control over Iraqi oil too. Iraq has a stake in that fight. They know it. We know it.
"Our children will have to go back." What about their children? Don't their children have an even greater stake in this? If Iraq is asking us to leave, then I can only surmise that their children will 'pony up' when the time comes.
"In that respect it is a war for oil."
I fully agree with your assessment. It's not about us getting the oil to burn. I believe it is about who else will get the oil to burn. Who else will get the oil to tax. From a strategic standpoint that is critical.
Some argue that "If we leave, the terrorist will slaughter everybody." My question to that is 'How many terrorist are we talking about'? Do the terrorist have a force in Iraq comparable to ours? If they do, then I would agree with those who say that we can't leave. We just couldn't leave 50,000 terrorist to run amok in Iraq. But I don't think that we are talking those kind of numbers. I don't see the logistics.
"If we leave Iraq then what??????????"
Then we go find OBL and kill him. We then go after the sponsors of terrorism and wipe them out too.
vegastracon at 8:27AM on May 25th 2007
21. So let me get this straight.
If Iraq asks us to leave, we'll leave. But we're over there because we are fighting "them" over there so "they" don't attack us here. He tells David Gregory that his children are in danger. He says that this is the most important battle in the "war on terror."
Any if they ask us to leave, we will. Out soldiers will just come back home and wait for "them" to come attack.
Seriously, are we just paralyzed with fear, and ignoring that this man is a psychopath because it's too frightening?
This man's head is so far up his hoohaa he doesn't know if the moon is full or not.
Michael at 2:53PM on May 25th 2007
22. joem is the biggest F**ckup of them all....haha! Stick your head up your butt a little farther and maybe we'll all get lucky because you won't be able to pull it out ans you will rot and die in your own stench which exactly what you deserve!
Victoria at 5:33PM on May 25th 2007
23. Joe M,
Your comment is as insane and unbelievable as Jr. Shit-for-brains.
ask us to leave???
I have prepared two engraved invitations, and
I am the first to ask both of you to GO to FUCKING HADES !!!
manfred at 3:02PM on May 26th 2007
24. Bush and Cheney have said that we either fight
terrorists in Iraq, or at home. If that's true,
if there's a battle ahead no matter where, let's
bring it here. We can count on 98% popular support,
a very short supply line, fighting for our very
survival, just like the Soviets in the Great
Patriotic War. Forget Iraq, that's lost...come
home, America, and watch for the big one here.
george tchirkow at 11:07PM on May 27th 2007
25. Joem....you hit the nail on the head.Let the Iraq citizens fight their own revolution without our help. The best plan to end all this BULL S--- would be to NUKE MECCA and be done with these animalistic rag-heads.
stanbegam at 12:33AM on May 28th 2007
26. It is very clear that David Knowles, along with the majority of the rest of the American press, seems to have a biased opinion of the president. I do not support Presdient Bush on everything he does; however, I feel the press scrutinizes evry tiny little detail about what this man says or does to an unjust level. I don't mind if they disagree with him, but it is obvious they allow their disagreements with his policies to integrate the objectivity of their so called "sacred" work.
Jimmy at 12:43AM on May 28th 2007
27. I AGREE WITH RUSTY. IF THE IRAQIS HAVE A CIVIL WAR..LET THEM! DON'T LET OUR TROOPS INTERFERE WITH
THEIR KILLING EACH OTHER. IT'S TIME TO GET THEM
OUT OF THEIR BEFORE ANY MORE OF OUR TROOPS COME H0ME
IN BODY BAGS OR MISSING LIMBS!
GET US OUT OF THERE!!!
Lorraine Ehlers at 1:49AM on May 28th 2007
28. I agree with Rusty! If the Iraqis want to wage a
civil war...let them. Don't let our troops be involved with it. Don't send any more of our brave
soldiers home in a body bag or missing limbs.
GET US OUT OF THERE!!!
Lorraine Ehlers at 1:57AM on May 28th 2007
29. This war has been a mistake, the greatest any President could have made and G W did admit on one of his press briefings that "mistakes were maid", so why is he not being punished for it. It is as simple as that, you make a mistake, you get punished for that! Shouldn't he be tried as a "war criminal" for causing the death and dismemberment of over 3000 of our soldiers and thousands and thousands of innocent Iraquies?, oh, I forget, we do not recognize the World Court, how hyprocritic!!!!
Vishwanath at 9:34AM on May 28th 2007
30. some good comments,some very naive comments.iam stillof the opinion that bush stoled the 2ooo and2004 elections.our america freedoms and civil rights of due process of law,have been greviously been eroded. reference scooby doo libby. we have been hoodwinked.and the present powers to be still remain commited to perpetuating this fraud on the decent caring and law abiding citizen of our us of america. please note former u.s.m.c. veitnam.
charlie at 11:02AM on May 28th 2007