Iraqi lawmakers call for U.S. timetable

[Barrett808]

Source: Associated Press

Iraqi lawmakers call for U.S. timetable
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - Radical Shiite politicians pressed Thursday for legislation demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops and a freeze on the number of foreign forces already in the country — even as the U.S. Congress debates the fate of the troubled mission.

The proposed Iraqi legislation, drafted by the parliamentary bloc loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, was signed by 144 members of the 275-member house, according to parliamentary officials.

The Sadrist bloc, which holds 30 parliamentary seats and sees the U.S.-led forces as an occupying army, has pushed similar bills before, but this would be the first time it persuaded a majority of lawmakers to sign on.

The measure has not yet been introduced in parliament and was unlikely to be passed in its present form. But the signatures reflected growing disenchantment among the lawmakers over U.S. involvement in Iraq and the government's failure to curb the violence in the country.

It also appeared part of a campaign by al-Sadr's followers to carve out a strong opposition position after they quit Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet last month over the government's refusal to demand a timetable for the U.S. to leave.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[acmavm]

1. They must be out of the loop. I have it on GOOD authority (Condi, bush**,

Cheney) that the Iraqi people ALL want us there. All except the terrorists that is.

:sarcasm:

[pinto]

2. Good to see an Iraqi timetable get some play in the press. It's their country.

[subterranean]

3. They want a timetable, therefore they are RADICAL.

[Roland99]

4. It's official! The Iraqi Parliament is filled with Al Qaeda-loving terrorists!!

"Someone get me Dick Cheney"

[Jackpine Radical]

5. We probly don't have 144 empty cells in Gitmo, so it's off to Poland

and a secret CIA prison for these guys.

[Recursion]

6. Apparently "radical shiite" is MSM for "not bought and paid for by the US"

The real radical Shi'ites would never serve in a parliament anyways; these are the guys who dismiss the Khomeini's of the world as too parochial and political.

[Monk06]

7. TAXI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!