Great news from Iraq!

Big news today. I saw it on NPR's website today: Iraqi Cleric Orders Stop To Attack On U.S. Troops. An anti-American cleric is urging his followers to stop attacking U.S. troops in Iraq so that their withdrawal from the country isn't slowed down, a call meant to ramp up pressure on Baghdad's political leaders who are considering asking some American forces to stay. In a statement posted on his website, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his militias to halt attacks against U.S. forces till the withdrawal is finished at the end of the year as required under a security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. "Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete," al-Sadr said in the statement, posted late Saturday. Sadrist lawmaker Mushraq Naji confirmed the statement on Sunday. However, al-Sadr warned that "if the withdrawal doesn't happen ... the military operations will be resumed in a new and tougher way." With this, WE SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF IRAQ AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Link to original post: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/11/140378857/iraqi-cleric-orders-stop-to-attack-on-u-s-troops?ft=1&f=1001