Iran’s president doesn’t appear to have had anything new to say during his visit to Iraq:
BAGHDAD – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday dismissed U.S. accusations that his country is training extremists and demanded that the Americans withdraw from Iraq.
My first reaction was that his opinion on the matter isn’t the one that counts. If it were the Iraqi government saying that the US should leave, though, that would be another situation entirely.
However, I can see a point coming soon where Iraqi and American interests will diverge, and so I have a hypothetical question:
If the Iraqi government asked us to leave right now, do you think President Bush would agree to do so? And/or if elected, would John McCain agree a year from now, if asked?
Even if, by either of their definitions, the US mission there was not complete?