Earlier this week, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that, while overall negotiations continued, the two sides had accepted the end of 2011 as an end date for the presence of the approximately 145,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080827/us_nm/iraq_deal_dc
Well the end of 2011 is 10 months from the 2012 presidential elections. Hmmmm.
By the way Bush wanted us to stay until 2015.