UK troops are mostly gone, Australian combat troops are now withdrawing and Poland is packing up and going home. Now more than 70% of Iraqis and just over half of Iraq's parliament want to know when the United States will be ending its occupation. Iraq, with Iran's backing, is now forcing the issue with BushCo. by refusing to sign a security pact that would allow the US to keep its forces in Iraq beyond 2008 :
A majority of the Iraqi parliament has written to Congress rejecting a long-term security deal with Washington if it is not linked to a requirement that U.S. forces leave, a U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday.Rep. William Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat and Iraq war opponent, released excerpts from a letter he was handed by Iraqi parliamentarians laying down conditions for the security pact that the Bush administration seeks with Iraq.
"What are the threats that require U.S. forces to be there?" asked Nadeem Al-Jaberi, a co-founder of the al-Fadhila Shi'ite political party, speaking through a translator.
"I would like to inform you, there are no threats on Iraq. We are capable of solving our own problems," he declared. He favored a quick pullout of U.S. forces, which invaded the country in 2003 and currently number around 155,000.
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