The AP reports today that Iraq’s national security adviser is insisting on a timetable for American troop withdrawal.

President Bush has always been against the idea of a timetable, and it seems his position hasn’t changed.

On the other hand, Bush is on record as saying:

We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It’s their government’s choice. If they were to say, leave, we would leave.

I can only hope that he sticks to his word and gets us out when the Iraqi government asks us to leave. I’m glad to see that they are willing to start standing on their own.