ANALYSIS: Al-Maliki stressing US departure

[evildevil]

ANALYSIS: Al-Maliki stressing US departure
Iraq's prime minister is pushing the idea that the U.S. departure is in sight in a bid to sell the security deal with Washington to Iran

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[screamingintune]

Please, let's leave. Most Americans want us to leave, the Iraqis want us to leave, we're spending money we don't have to stay, our military is overextended... TIME TO GO!

[layweed]

With Iranian sensitivities in mind, the Iraqis also want an explicit ban on the U.S. using Iraqi territory to attack its neighbors - a demand that was reinforced by last Sunday's U.S. raid against a suspected al-Qaida hideout in Syria.

I hope this happens. The U.S. government needs to realize that we're guests in Iraq, and using their country as a staging board for what are pretty much illegal cross-border raids is a big nono. It doesn't just make them look bad, it strains relations between the host country and the one they crossed into.