Remember how President Bush and his allies have always contended that US troops will stay in Iraq only as long as they are needed.
The country's prime minister has come out and said that they are no longer needed.
Nouri al-Maliki said that his security forces could handle any challenge and that American troops can leave immediately.
"We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw at any time they want," he told journalists.
One aide to Maliki sharply criticized the U.S. military, saying it was committing human rights violations and embarrassing the Iraqi government through such tactics as building a wall around Baghdad's Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah....
The aide complained that the US occupation was turning one of the oldest civilizations in the world into a giant petri dish.
Hassan al-Suneid opined, "the situation looks as if it is an experiment in an American laboratory (judging) whether we succeed or fail."
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