President Bush Announces U.S. would Leave Iraq if Iraqi Government Requests

[Survivor]

President Bush said today if the Iraqi government were to ask the United States to leave Iraq, he would grant the request.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/24/politics/politico/thecrypt/main2848888.shtml

[lily]

Well, when they get enough votes, we can accomadate them. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/05/11/MNG37PPB881.DTL&type=politics)

Iraqi lawmakers push for U.S. withdrawal
Moves in parliament echo U.S. Congress' efforts to limit Bush
Joshua Partlow, Washington Post

(05-11) 04:00 PDT Baghdad -- A majority of Iraq's parliament has signed a
proposed bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.
soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels, a sign of a growing
division between Iraqi legislators and the prime minister that mirrors the
widening gulf between the Bush administration and its critics in Congress.

The draft bill would create a timeline for a gradual departure, much like
what some Democrats in the United States have demanded, and require the
Iraqi government to secure parliament's approval before any further
extensions of the U.N. mandate for foreign troops in Iraq, which expires at
the end of 2007.

"We haven't asked for the immediate withdrawal of multinational forces, we
asked that we should build our security forces and make them qualified and
at that point there would be a withdrawal," said Baha al-Araji, a
parliamentarian allied with the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,
whose supporters drafted the bill. "But no one can accept the occupation of
his country."