Get Out!

David Corn met an interesting person last night:

Last night, at a Washington reception, I met Mohammed al-Daini, a member of the Iraqi parliament and the National Dialogue Front, a party with 11 seats in the Iraqi legislature. Daini is one of the 144 parliamentarians who are supporting legislation calling for the United States to withdraw its troops from Iraq. With 275 legislators in the parliament, the please-leave bloc is now a majority. The big question is, will this bill come up for a vote? And if it does and passes, how will George W. Bush and the Republicans respond?

Corn quotes this Iraqi PM as saying that the votes are there to vote for a U.S. withdrawal and that it will happen. He further indicates that al Maliki does not have a veto. So what would al Maliki and the U.S. do if the lawful government of Iraq votes the U.S. off the island? Mitch McConnel is on record as saying that we would gladly comply if they vote us out. This may be a wild card in all the wait-until-September conventional wisdom.