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Who Decides U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq 'as soon as possible,' according to a magazine report, and he called presidential candidate Barack Obama's suggestion of 16 months 'the right timeframe for a withdrawal.' . . . In Baghdad, however, the chief bm: spokesman for al-Maliki issued a statement Sunday saying the prime minister's comments were 'not conveyed accurately' by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine. . . . Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said al-Maliki did not endorse a specific timetable but instead discussed a 'an Iraqi vision' of U.S. troop withdrawals based on negotiations with Washington and 'and in the light of the continuing positive developments on the ground.' . . . The Der Spiegel article, released Saturday, quoted al-Maliki as giving apparent backing to the withdrawal plans discussed by Obama - the Illinois senator and likely Democratic nominee has pledged to withdraw combat troops from Iraq within 16 months if he is elected. To continue reading click here.

What does the average American--whoever that is--think when he or she hears that the Prime Minister whose country our men and woman are dying for wants us to leave, but the administration refuses to do so? There is so much wrong with this picture. But one thing is for certain; the administration never intended to leave Iraq even when asked by a duly elected government. Anything to the contrary was unadulterated hype. What pressure can be brought to bear against such a lawless administration? Impeachment and removal from office was designed especially with this sort of lawlessness in mind. But that will never happen because pusillanimous Pelosi refuses to permit the House even to discuss it. One thing we can do is punish the Republican Party by voting against Republicans in every race from president to dog catcher. The goal is to strike a blow against those Republican faithful who supported Bush simply to follow the party. They must be brought to realize that there are some occasions when lawlessness by the president (even when, or especially when, it's your party) must be stopped or punished. That occasion is now.

How do those naysayers regarding Senator Obama's credibility as commander-in-chief spin this one?

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).