Top Headline on CNN.com right now . . .

[Chichiri]

U.S. troops can leave 'anytime,' Iraqi P.M. says

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "anytime they want."


The time is very close . . .

[aquart]

1. I want NOW.

Can't any good soldier be packed in an hour?

[Vincardog]

2. Will he ask us please?

[Nikki Stone1]

3. "We'll pack their bags and call the shuttle."

:D

[defendandprotect]

4. ALL troops must leave -- hope that is stressed -- !!!!

[Phredicles]

5. Sounds like they're standing up, so we can stand down.

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. Hmmm, how will the Boy King respond to this?

It will be very hard for Pissypants to spin this. But I know he'll give it his best shot (of Jack Daniels).

[gulliver]

8. He'll call up Al-Maliki personally and offer him some ...

... type of payola to "elaborate more on what he actually meant to say." Bush will be willing to give him a lot of American tax money to shut him up, I think. No way can Bush politically afford to withdraw the troops now. If Bush withdraws the troops, he will have failed, and the GOP will be keelhauled by the voters in 2008. Bush needs to keep spending American lives and tax dollars until 2008 to preserve the fiction that there is an as-yet-unknown outcome to his war presidenting disaster.

[Kool Kitty]

10. And the press corps will ask Tony Snow about

this on Monday, and Snow will say that Al-Maliki was either mis-quoted or the statement was taken out of context. :grr:

[Rick Myers]

7. See ya, Nouri!

Wouldn't wanna be ya', but...

WE ARE OUTTA HERE!!!

[AntiFascist]

13. I hope so...

but it will be very interesting to see how the White House, faux media, and neocons try to spin this.

[rocktivity]

9. Lucky for al-Maliki that Bush DOESN'T want to leave

He knows perfectly well the Iraq government wouldn't survive withdrawal. If he REALLY wanted Bush to leave, he would have said, "Get out."

:headbang:
rocknation

[jsamuel]

11. Bush said we would leave as soon as they want us to.

[dapper]

12. They can't leave now!?!?!?!

Are you kidding me? Al Qaida who is about to attack us will decide against attacking us so they can move their ever expanding operations to Iraq. Bush and company still have to plan an attack on American soil so all the Rethuglican's can rally around BushCo in hoped to win in 2008.

They still need the boogie man to come out of his cave, they still need to make money off of their war!

Dap

[chknltl]

14. Like hell we can leave!

Has Iraq signed their oil over to bush's puppeteers yet? Even if they did, exactly who is gonna protect it for those puppeteers? These details have yet to be fully hashed out and so until then more death and chaos and gnashing of teeth while the great deciever vetoes anything which gets between that oil and his masters. There is still Iran's oil to be dealt with also. The oil gang ain't about to leave without securing that as well. Then there is all that oil in Venezuala...you can bet the next act of "terrorism" against us will come from that Chavez guy. We will get to bring them Democracy too! I think we should leave that nasty oil stuff alone...it makes folks act crazy and do insane things.

[K8-EEE]

15. Chucklenuts actually said we can't leave cuz of the oil....

his last speechifyin', did anybody hear it? Basically if we leave Al Kay-duh will make Iraq the GLOBAL TERRA CENTER and it will be funded by all that OIL they'll have......so we better get our hooks into it so the terr'rists won't get it, heh heh heh!

Honest to god, that was the gist of it!

[radfringe]

16. but he said it while sitting in a chair

we can't leave until he stands up

sort of like it ain't over until the fat lady sings.. in this case it ain't over until the PM stands up

[AwakeAtLast]

17. A certain "relative" of mine

Came back from drill telling me that they are closely watching the bills going through Congress because that will determine when or if they will be scheduled to be redeployed.

If this person knows this, you are correct...