'US would leave if Iraq asks'
2007-05-24 17:36
Washington - US President George W Bush, who has warned that a hasty US pullout from Iraq would be catastrophic, said on Thursday that US forces would leave if the fledgling Baghdad government asked them to.
"We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation," he said at a White House press conference.
"If they were to say 'leave', we would leave."
- AFP