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More From Iraqi Government Official On U.S. Troops Leaving By 2010
By Greg Sargent - July 21, 2008, 11:30AM

The Associated Press adds some more detail about the quote we noted below from the Iraqi government official saying he wants the troops out by 2010:

Al-Dabbagh said the government did not endorse a fixed date, but hoped American combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. That timeframe falls within the 16-month withdrawal plan proposed by Obama, who arrived in Iraq earlier in the day as part of a congressional fact-finding team.

"We are hoping that in 2010 that combat troops will withdraw from Iraq," al-Dabbagh told reporters, noting that any withdrawal plan was subject to change if the level of violence kicks up again.

We'd like still more direct quotes, please. The paraphrase here says the government wants the troops out by 2010. But the direct quote isn't quite as conclusive.

Either way, however, this is very significant. As TPM alum Spencer Ackerman puts it:

"There's nowhere left for McCain to go here. Either he endorses a timetable for withdrawal, which he has consistently said would be a disaster, and cedes his only big issue to Obama -- and more importantly, concedes that Obama's judgment is sound -- or he deliberately ignores the concerted, expressed wishes of the Iraqi government in order to prolong an unpopular war."