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Malaki has to appear to satisfy a majority of Iraqi to keep his current slight popularity in tack. However. We and they do have that little problem regarding the UN mandates.
It will be interesting to see this play out. If it turns out that only minority numbers are in protest of keeping our forces in situ, perhaps a transparent force agreement will come to past. The US congress is not at all happy on how things have gone. GWB has really keeped them out of the loop for the most part. More Repubs are siding with the demowits on this issue in it's varied reported provisions.
One thing not being voiced is the huge amount of reconstruction the US military still provides in so many divergent ways that would come to a stand still if we pull out engineering groups for instance. Now if we are to continue to help them rebuild, we have to provide sufficient of warriors to protect our engineering, medical, social reconstruction groups etc..
It is a sticky situation at best.