Iraqi President: U.S. Troops Should Stay

Iraqi President: U.S. Troops Should Stay
AP, 2/1/05
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's president said Tuesday it would be "complete nonsense" to ask foreign troops to leave the country now, although some could depart by year's end.

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"It's only complete nonsense to ask the troops to leave in this chaos and this vacuum of power," al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab, said.

He said foreign troops should leave only after Iraq's security forces are built up, the country's security situation has improved and some pockets of terrorists are eliminated.

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Later Tuesday, Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said Iraq would only ask U.S. and other forces to leave when the country's own troops were capable of taking on insurgents.

"We don't want to have foreign troops in our country, but at the same time we believe that these forces should stay for some time until we are able to control the borders and establish a new modern army and we have efficient intelligence," Shaalan told reporters. "At that time ... we'll ask them to leave."

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MDN

...the insurgency will thrive and grow. That's the bottom line. I don't see where we're preventing violence at this point, only fueling it.

We need to get our troops out of Iraq NOW!:grr:

I'm SHOCKED the bush-picked Iraqi "president" says US troops should stay, against the vast majority of Iraqis who want US troops out right now.

SHOCKED! Where'd all that DEMOCRACY go???!!

:wow:

rotflmao!!!

I mean, who on earth would've predicted that the occupation government would endorse the continued presence of the occupiers? It's shocking, I say, shocking. :D


MDN

Heh.

And anyone in Iraq saying troops must remain, would be very well advised to not leave the Green Zone.

We've hit the fucking tar baby there isn't anyway to painlessly extract ourselves, see what happens when you don't listen. We're so fucked, fucked for generations to come.

Uh huh.

Half of America, a ton of republicans, and the very vast majority of the entire world TOLD THEM SO.

Watch if Chalabi becomes the next prime minister. It's another "coincidence" that he was also on Bush's payroll.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14744291

deciding when our own troops should leave a war zone.

still to be had.

He is as interim as Allawi.

... who thinks he is a fucking rock star.

A Fat Blackwell

Looks like a neocon sheik

I thought the Iraqis now had power?

Sounds really long term to me.

"People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA (news - web sites)'s former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050118/cm_thenation/132132

it will sink in that the cost of occupying (and pilfering oil from) Iraq is just too high.

I realize this is a case of "privatize the profits; socialize the costs", but still this has to have too high a price tag.

What will we do with those 14 U.S. bases in Iraq? Will the soldiers be able to leave the bases? Will anyone ever be able to steal the oil in a profitable manner? I think not.

Also, I pray the neocons will be out of office, and when they are, -- never mind. I just realized that no political party will want to give up those 14 bases, no matter what the cost.

These towers are simply more targets. You have to remember who is getting rich in this foray into Iraq.

~snip~

Now comes a report in the New York Sun by Eli Lake revealing that the Pentagon (news - web sites) is building a permanent military communications system in Iraq, a necessary foundation for any lasting troop presence. The new network will comprise twelve communications towers throughout Iraq, linking Camp Victory in Baghdad to other existing (and future) bases across the country, eventually connecting with US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan (news - web sites).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050118/cm_thenation/132132

We should not have been in the country and now that we are I think we make it more of a killing field but still not sure if it would be better to leave today. Maybe start leaving?The trouble is Brener has passed all those laws to let the corp. take over the country so I think we will have to stay to back up those laws. There is also something in the laws that states the Iraq people can not get ride of them. It is a mess.Bush needs to pay off those corp and so I think we will stay in force.

I don't know and I don't give a damn, cause next stop is (fill in the blank).:bounce:

by Steve Bell



http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1403140,00.html

Heil Bush!

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14744291

traitorous hiney?

few weeks ago? Or is my memory lettng me down?

If you believe this line of crap then you live too close to a sewer treatment plant and can't see the turds through the the crap.

Iraq is a scam to fleece us out of even more of our already sky rocketing national debt. Oh Atlantis. Please flood the neo-cons's homes and let the rest of the world live in peace. These weirdos are the worst slime on the face of our already outstretched world.

But that's what you get when America's conscience takes an extended vacation and idiots rein supreme.

Skypilot 18

www.skypilotclub.com

--why don't you tell us what you really think? ;)
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