In 2007, Bush promised Iraq withdrawal if asked by Maliki: ‘I don’t see how we could stay.’
Yesterday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he would like to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Today, however, the Bush administration rejected the timetable. In an April 24, 2007 interview with Charlie Rose, however, President said he would remove troops if asked by Iraq, but he predicted that Maliki would not ask for a withdrawal:
ROSE: But if he said get out now, we don’t want you anymore–
BUSH: I don’t see how we could stay. It is his country.
ROSE: But if he said that, it would lead to the catastrophe that you have suggested.
BUSH: That’s why he’s not going to say it.
ROSE: You don’t think he’ll say it?
BUSH: I don’t. No, I don’t.
“[W]e’re looking at conditions, not calendars here,” State Department spokeperson Gonzalo Gallegos said today.
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Catastrophe
US troops leaving would lead to the catastrophe. For whom? Those dumbass leaders of Iraq are letting us poison the very land they live in so that they now have to ask if a baby is normal at birth rather than if it is a boy or a girl. First they have to find out if it has all its body parts.
Yea, having our DU weapons leave would be a real catastrophe for sure.
4Peace
Just when you think the fraud couldn't be any more obvious...
...the Iraqi puppet tries to break free, only to be slapped down by the rogue administration overseeing the illegal occupation of his country.
As if the military-industrial, oil-soaked, power-drunk war whores inside the Beltway know better than the Iraqis themselves what's good for them.
And as if 1.2 million Iraqi dead, 4100 American dead, tens of thousands more Iraqis and Americans permanently maimed, 5 million Iraqi refugees, a crippled infrastructure and the entire Iraqi landscape (which of course also means Iraqis and Americans) poisoned with the illegal depleted uranium from our weapons doesn't already represent a catastrophe of epic proportions.
Not to mention the fact that as a result of all the money we're needlessly pissing away over there, our country teeters on the brink of complete economic collapse.
At least 80% of Iraqis want us out, and approximately two-thirds think it's okay to kill Americans, because they have long since looked at us not as liberators, but occupiers.
I defy any Bush supporter to tell us all how it could possibly get better for the Iraqi people or us here at home if we refuse to leave.
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