Iraqi PM says foreign troops to leave in 2011

[brooklynite]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011.

"There is an agreement actually reached, reached between the two parties on a fixed date which is the end of 2011 to end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil," Maliki said in a speech to tribal leaders in the Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.

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timetables...timelines,,,time horizons...

[Lasher]

1. Yeah right

President Cheney's still just trying to keep them there forever, even after he's finally gone. And by the time 2011 gets here it we'll have to reassess, freedom will march in democracy terra, we won't dwell on the past (the current plan to withdraw by then), blah blah blah.

But guess what asshole warmongers, the troops will be safe 16 months from this January, not 36.

[MichiganVote]

2. The * admin. trying to rule after the election. Fuck your agreement.

[Narkos]

3. The resistance to ending the occupation is more than the oil angle

it's American Exceptionalism (aka White Man's Burden). I have a friend who is a State Dept official who just got back from Baghdad, and his ignorance is astounding on this point. It kills him the President Bush is "binding" a policy of withdrawal that will limit the options of any future administration. He, like many others, thinks we have can ignore the perogatives of a sovereign nation since we have an obligation to bring civilization to the brown people. The guy's a Harvard grad.....incredible.

[Javaman]

4. if Obama gets in, it will be sooner, if mcmoron gets in, it will be never. nt