Iraq To U.S.: Please Leave, Thanks

If you can believe it, the Iraqis aren't happy about having us in their country.

Ingrates.

Financial Express: Guerrillas kill two US soldiers, 10 Iraqi security personnel-

Top commander admits Iraqis want US out 'as soon as possible'

The top US military commander admitted Sunday that Iraqis wanted US and other foreign troops to leave the country "as soon as possible", and said US troop levels in Iraq were now being re-assessed on a monthly basis.

The admission by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Marine General Peter Pace followed a decision by the Pentagon to reduce its presence in Iraq by two army brigades, which amounts to about 7,000 soldiers...

Does this mean the Pentagon admits that Rep. Murtha was right? Of course, it does. You'd have to waterboard them to get them, of any right-wing pundit, to admit that, but that's the reality. The Murthas of Congress were correct and their plans for redeployment and phased withdrawals will be co-opted in 2006 by the Bush administration/Pentagon, who will of course take all the credit for bringing our boys home even though they spent the latter half of 2005 calling anyone who even addressed the topic as defeatists and traitors. How utterly predictable.

"[T]hey're not happy they're occupied. I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either."
-President George W. Bush (April 13, 2004)