Iraq leader: U.S. troops needed for 2 more years

[Contrary1]

Wow. :wow: What a coincidence for him to say this now.

"CAMBRIDGE, England - Iraq’s Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, said Friday that his country may need U.S. troops for one or two more years. The statement came after lawmakers in Baghdad backed a drawdown in the number of foreign troops in Iraq.

Talabani told students at Cambridge University that all of Iraq was safer because of Saddam Hussein’s removal and that many people were living normal lives. “I think that in one or two years we will be able to recruit our forces, to prepare our forces and say goodbye to our friends,” he said.

On Thursday, a majority of Iraqi lawmakers endorsed a draft bill calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and demanding a freeze on the number already in the country.

The legislation was being discussed even as U.S. lawmakers were locked in a dispute with the White House over their call to start reducing the size of the U.S. force in the coming months..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18602895/

[babylonsister]

1. Whaddaya know, just in time for the next prez. Quelle surprise. nt

[merh]

2. So he lives in denial too

just like the administration and contrary to the members of the parliament.

what a shock, not! :grr:

[global1]

3. Cheney Visits Iraq And Suddenly The Iraqi's Say They Need Us For 2 More Years......

coincidence - I think not.

[ThomWV]

4. When Are The Next US Elections? Oh, 2 more years, right?

Leave the mess for a Democrat.

[bigtree]

5. They'll never get enough of the power they've obtained behind the sacrificaes of our soldiers.

[MUAD_DIB]

6. What happens then? Is the War on Tera® over in two years?