Mark his words

UPDATED

We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government.

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If they were to say, 'leave,' we would leave.

President George W. Bush
Thursday, May 24, 2007

First things first: we are not there at the "invitation" of anybody. We invaded Iraq quite against the will of the Iraqi people and their government.

But be that as it may, I will take the president at his word that "if they were to say, 'leave,' we would leave."

UPDATE

And as Atrios points out:

So, we're fighting "them" over there so we don't fight them here, if we leave they'll follow us home, we're fighting al Qaeda terrorists who want to kill us all, etc... etc... Except if the Iraqi government asks us to leave we'll go home and wait for destruction.

UPDATE II

And as Aravosis points out:

Bush would sacrifice your children and he'd even be willing to let the terrorists commit another September 11 here in America - remember, those were his words, that's what HE and the Republicans have repeatedly been saying would happen if we leave Iraq before "victory" - because what the Iraqi government wants is more important to Bush than the blood of "your children."

He is in so far over his head it isn't even funny.

Of course, another way of looking at it is that he was just lying off the top of his head today, and has no intention of leaving Iraq, no matter what the Iraqi government says it wants. Maybe he literally can't keep the lies straight in his head anymore.

But maybe that's just me being cynical again.