Iraqis want U.S. troops to come home too. Shi’ite ministers quit the al-Maliki government in protest over the lack of a timeline for American withdrawal.
The [Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s] Sadrists accused Maliki of “ignoring the will of the people” over the timetable issue and also of failing to improve basic services and security.
The Shi-ites say al-Maliki is ignoring the will of the people. Hmmm, why does that ring a bell?
Tens of thousands of Iraqis answered a call by Sadr to rally in the holy Shi’ite city of Najaf last week to protest against the presence of more than 140,000 U.S.-led forces in Iraq…
“The prime minister has to express the will of the Iraqi people. They went out in a demonstration in their millions asking for a timetable for withdrawal,” the head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament, Nassar al-Rubaie, told a news conference.
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