Iraqis don't need us ---Maliki

Iraqis ready to manage own security: PM - World - smh.com.au:

Mr Maliki admitted on Saturday that he wanted his army and police to have more US-backed training, but he insisted Iraqi forces could deal adequately with an abrupt American pullout. "We say with confidence that we are capable, God willing, of taking full responsibility for the security file if the international forces withdraw in any time they wish."

So what's the holdup? Let's get out! Republicans want to filibuster? I say let 'em!

Did you see this article in the New York Times?

Of course not! Thank god for the alternative press.

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation: "On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the petition."