Iraqi PM's live address to nation on US forces' withdrawal agreement

David Lambeth
November 23 2008
11:06am
On November 18 2008 Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki addressed the nation live from his office. He opened with this statement, “Oh, honourable Iraqi people. Oh, proud people. May God's peace and blessings be upon you. I would like to talk to you at this critical phase, which our dear country is going through, about an issue that concerns Iraq's present and future, an Iraq which we would like to build together; namely the agreement on the withdrawal from Iraq of US forces and on organizing their activities during their temporary presence in the country.” He then gave thanks for the relief of dictatorship. He then set the stepping stones to talk about Iraq beginning to seek its national sovereignty. In the next paragraph he says “Political” eight times stressing the importance of the new democratic side of the country. They have set a final date of December 2011 for complete withdrawal of US Troops. Also the majority in major cities and subcities must be out by June 2009. He also pledged that there would be on attacks on any other countries. He also restated that Iraq is his number one concern. I am personally excited to see that such progress has been made and the final steps are being taken to gain sovereigntyin Iraq.
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