Vote To Vote For Withdrawal

This is very interesting:

Voices of Iraq reports that Iraqi Parliament voted on Tuesday to approve a decision that gives it the upper hand in deciding any future extension of the presence of foreign troops in Iraq, according to Sadrist MP Nassar Al-Rubai'i.

Al-Rubai'i said that 85 legislators, out of 144 present, voted in support of the bill. "The vote came after a bill submitted by the Sadrist Bloc to the parliament, which stated that all decisions to extend the presence of the occupying forces in Iraq should be referred to the parliament," al-Rubaie told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Some Iraqi parliamentarians, most notably Kurdish MP Mahmoud Othman, had stated weeks ago that the vote would be regarded as a non-binding petition rather than a law that would require withdrawal. Sadrist MPs intended to set a timetable for eventual U.S. withdrawal, while others mainly wanted Iraqi parliament to have a role in the final decision.

Of course the Kurds want us to stay.

This is not a vote to remove the U.S. It's a vote that authorizes the parliament to have the authority to vote the U.S. off the island. Whether they'll actually vote us out or not is questionable. Given this vote, it appears there's profound support for such a resolution.

Will the U.S. honor an "invitation" to leave? Bush says he will. But then Bush says a lot of things.