Why is the Bush administration refusing to leave Iraq on the Iraqi government's terms?

Question

They always said when Iraqi's stand down we will stand up but each time they try to stand up it seems the Bush administration pushes them right back down.

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Answer 1

bush doesn't know what "sovereign" means

Answer 2

Oil stealers.

They ain't gonna get outa there until they've taken all the oil mate

Answer 3

This is the point where this war on terror in Iraq (or however the Bush administration wants to phrase it) transitions into an illegal occupation.  If they want us out, we need to leave.  Period.

Answer 4

The Bush administration is looking at a 2011 timetable (or thereabouts).

The fact is that the US has a lot at stake in a viable working political democracy in Iraq. The US has put lives on the line, money, time and countless other resources to ensure a longstanding victory in Iraq. The Iraqi leadership at this point does not have the strength, experience and know how or the capital to tell the US to leave when the Iraqi president wants us to. We need to finish as much as possible what we have joined our allies in doing. It will be to the betterment of Iraq, the US and the world. So to reiterate, Bush has a timeline, it may be different than the Iraqi leader's timeline, but these things are working out diplomatically in a time when the democrats are still saying that the US has failed in Iraq and we should have pulled out a year ago.

Give it a little time, my little liberal friend, and perhaps you'll eventually realize that Bush/Cheney have a little more understanding than you do when it comes to handling world affairs

Answer 5

OIL - that's why -  

Answer 6

Because we haven't secured the oil wells....I mean...(cough), created stability in the region....yet.

Answer 7

I expect there are as many different opinions within the Iraqi government as within the US government.  

It's hard to make solid plans when the whole situation is in flux.

Answer 8

Because the mission has not been accomplished yet.

Never has and never will.

Regards.

Answer 9

They want the oil;-]

Answer 10

Because when Bush gets all weepy while talking about the freely elected government of sovereign Iraq and how we are there for their freedom, he fails to mention that we are occupying the nation and have failed to leave even though their Parliament voted to tell us to leave.  What is going to happen is that Bush will be forced to agree to a time line and has already agreed to withdraw American combat troops from Iraqi cities by June, 2009.  

In addition, it is pretty amazing isn't it that Bush will now have to agree to a date for withdrawal of American forces that is in line with Obama's time line while McCain goes about saying 'no time line' and alleging that Obama is naive.  In reality, McCain either has no clue or he is incredibly dishonest, because our troops will not be able to remain legally past the expiration of the UN mandate without an agreement and Iraq is demanding a time line be part of any such agreement.

Answer 11

Cause you don't mess with Texas. Period.