Iraqi Lawmakers ask for Timetable

(AP) U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,383

Majority of Iraqi lawmakers call for timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops, lawmaker says

May 10, 2007
7:58 AM

(Baghdad-AP) _ A majority of Iraqi lawmakers have endorsed a bill calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and demanding a freeze on the number of foreign troops already in the country, lawmakers said Thursday.

The legislation was being debated even as U.S. lawmakers were locked in a dispute with the White House over their call to start reducing the size of the U.S. force here in the coming months.

The Iraqi bill, drafted by a parliamentary bloc loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, was signed by 144 members of the 275-member house, according to Nassar al-Rubaie, the leader of the Sadrist bloc. ...(more)

Since the Iraqi parliament seldom gets anything done, it's highly significant that they've managed to put together a majority to ask for a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw.

What will the Bush administration do? They went on and on about Iraqi elections and creating a democracy in Iraq; so now, will they honor the will of the Iraqi parliaments?