Iraq says it wants U.S. troops out by 2011

[Bozita]

Source: AP

Iraq says it wants U.S. troops out by 2011
BY SAMEER N. YACOUB • ASSOCIATED PRESS • OCTOBER 30, 2008

BAGHDAD — Iraq wants to remove any possibility that U.S. troops could remain after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under negotiation, a Shi'ite lawmaker close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said today.

The current draft would have U.S. soldiers leave Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011, unless the government asks them to stay to help with training or other missions.

But Ali al-Adeeb, a member of the prime minister’s inner circle, said the government wants that possibility removed.

“The Iraqi side wants to remove any mention of a possible extension of U.S. troops, fearing that the existing clause might be subjected to misinterpretation or could bear different interpretation because Multinational Forces might demand for extension depending on their evaluation of the security forces or the incomplete readiness of the Iraqi forces,” al-Adeeb told the Associated Press.

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[Plucketeer]

1. I'll do 'em one better

I want them out in the first half of '09!

[bdamomma]

2. we had no business being there in the first place

we need to leave ASAP.

[hamsterjill]

3. Now wouldn't be soon enough.

Bring 'em home!