Industry Figure Tom Chappell

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (AFP) reports that a few days ago, 82 of the 275 members of the Iraqi Parliament signed a letter calling upon their government to honor their election promises to demand a clear timetable for the pullout of foreign troops, including U.S. troops.

There’s been almost no mention of this in the U. S. press, though it has reported ramped-up administration statements saying that we’re not planning to withdraw until we feel like it’s in our and everybody else’s interest to do so.

So, that’s certainly not a majority, but it will be interesting to see what the U.S. does when the number of Iraqi ministers of parliament calling for a pullout reaches 138/275.

That’s the right wing’s big thing, after all, “a straight up-or-down vote.”

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