Iraqi leader insists on deadline for troop pullout

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left and Iran's Vice-President Parviz Davoodi, right, are seen after al-Maliki arrived at Mehrabad International airport in Tehran, Iran, Saturday June, 7, 2008. An unidentified Iranian translator is in center.

"Iraqi leader insists on deadline for troop pullout"

Well good, lets get out of there and let those ungrateful so and so's deal with their neighbors on their own. Al-Maliki must realize that AlQiada, Quds and every other flavor of muslim terrorists will converge on Iraq the moment America withdraws. Perhaps what he really wants is a cooperative relationship with his fellow Iranian Shia and no Americans around to spoil the plot.

So I say lets get out RIGHT NOW, and take every shred of American equipment and stop all aid at the same time. Let Iraq and Iran cozy up and then add Iraq to the list of terrorist states. Trying to play one muslim country against another will never work because muslims are muslims first, last and always. In the end, islam will always be there trying to impose sharia on the world.

America needs to take a few lessons from current events. First, understand that islam and western values will never peacefully coexist. Second, when we go to war, we need to emulate the latest Russian invasion of Georgia. That is, use absolutely overwhelming force as quickly as possible and continue the attack until the other side accepts unconditional surrender. Then and only then, dictate terms favorable to America and the West. Third, ignore the UN, the European Union and any other entity that does not like our actions. Fourth, accept that the islamic world, much like the Soviet Union, must be contained and destroyed as an effective world power.

FROM APNEWS.MYWAY.COM:

Iraqi leader insists on deadline for troop pullout

Aug 26, 12:13 AM (ET)

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ROBERT H. REID

BAGHDAD (AP) - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers leave the country by a specific date in 2011 and rejecting legal immunity for American troops.
Despite the tough words, al-Maliki's aides insisted a compromise could be found on the two main stumbling blocks to an accord governing the U.S. military presence in Iraq after a United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.
Last week, U.S. and Iraqi officials said the two sides agreed tentatively to a schedule that includes a broad pullout of combat troops by the end of 2011 with the possibility that a residual U.S. force might stay behind to continue training and advising Iraqi security services.
But al-Maliki's remarks indicated his government was not satisfied with that arrangement and wants all foreign troops gone by the end of 2011.
That cast doubt on whether an agreement is near and suggested al-Maliki is playing to a domestic audience frustrated by the war and eager for an end to the foreign military presence.
"There can be no treaty or agreement except on the basis of Iraq's full sovereignty," al-Maliki told a gathering of Shiite tribal sheiks. He said an accord must be based on the principle that "no foreign soldier remains in Iraq after a specific deadline, not an open time frame."
Al-Maliki said the U.S. and Iraq had already agreed on a full withdrawal of all foreign troops by the end of 2011 - an interpretation that the White House challenged. Until then, the U.S. would not conduct military operations "without the approval" of the Iraqi government, al-Maliki said.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said negotiations with the Iraqis were continuing and repeated the U.S. position that the withdrawal must be linked to conditions in Iraq - a clear difference with al-Maliki's interpretation of what had been agreed.
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