Iraq MPs Back US Pullout

Article image "No one can accept the occupation of his country", said Araji.
Mirroring the widening gulf between the Bush administration and its critics in Congress, a majority of Iraqi lawmakers have signed a draft bill opposed by the government that requires a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, The Washington Post reported Friday, May 11.

"No one can accept the occupation of his country," Bahaa Al-Araji, an MP for the Shiite Al-Sadr Movement, said.

"We haven't asked for the immediate withdrawal of multinational forces; we asked that we should build our security forces and make them qualified, and at that point there would be a withdrawal." MORE
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