Well, that’s good enough for me…

Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki says the US can go home anytime it wants, as one of his ministers expresses frustration that the country’s being treated like an experiment in an American Lab.

Here’s a link to the story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/14/iraq.military.ap/index.html

Seriously, this ought to be the test of whether or not Bush and Co. truly believe their crap rhetoric about Iraq being a representative democracy and a truly sovereign nation. If they want us out, we ought to go, no questions asked. That’s the way that stuff is supposed to work, right?

And as for the minister’s comments — really, is there anything to say about that that he didn’t say? He’s right, of course. And that’s precisely why the US troops aren’t going anywhere for a bit — say, 10 years or so.