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." At a news conference Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his government needs "time and effort" to enact the political reforms that Washington seeks. One of his top aides, meanwhile, accused the United States of embarrassing the Iraqi government by violating human rights and treating his country like an "experiment in a U.S. lab." Al-Maliki sought to display confidence at a time when pressure is mounting in Congress for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. forces. On Thursday, the House passed a measure calling for the United States to withdraw its troops by spring, hours after the White House reported mixed progress by the Iraqi government toward meeting 18 benchmarks. During a news conference, al-Maliki shrugged off the progress report, saying that difficulty in enacting the reforms was "natural" given Iraq's turmoil. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/14/iraq.military.ap/index.html? Maybe it's time to say, "See ya.. wouldn't wanna be ya"? I mean, when the US leaves the only thing we'll hear is the big sucking sound as everyone runs in to claim their piece of the pie and Iraq will go back to just another version of Saddam's Iraq (probably worse). But I'd take his statements as a clear sign the Iraqi government doesn't care much for the US presense. What do YOU think?
NBC ran a story about how long it would take if we even tried to leave, the story mentioned it would take over 20 months to move the massive amount of equipment out of a road through Kuwait, with 20 Brigades in Iraq you can only move 1 a month out under optimum conditions. The problem is, the highway is currently is a major target of "the insurgents" and they attack traffic on it daily, so as Robert Gates said, it is a logistical nightmare for the USA to leave Iraq and it would take over 2 years just to get out. I do not think we are going to leave, the bases set up in Iraq are going to be forward bases for a wider war down the road and they seem permanent at this point.
Dick Cheney will never give up the oil fields, he would rather blow the earth up in a nuclear war, the man is criminally insane and needs impeached.
Impeached?? I am not a supporter of locking people up at taxpayer expense, but if we have to jail somebody, he seems like the best choice!
Soon Republicans will be joining in the impeach Bush and Cheney march as they did with Nixon because these guys are simply a major disgrace to America.