OBAMA BACKED ON IRAQ BY BUSH AND MCCAIN

OLBERMANN: The Iraqi government is saying, 'Get out,' and President Bush swore, you know, "Some day if they say get out, we‘ll get out."

MADDOW: That‘s right. May 2007 in the Rose Garden, Bush said - and I went back and checked the quote directly so I could be sure to directly quote him - "If they were to say leave, we would leave." Also, for what it‘s worth, in April of 2004, John McCain at the Council on Foreign Relations said, "It is obvious we would have to leave if they asked to us leave."

I mean, they told us that the point of invading Iraq was to topple Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein was toppled; they told us that the point of staying there after, was to set up a sovereign Iraqi government. Well now, the sovereign Iraqi government is standing up on its hind legs enough to tell us to leave, and we're left with this situation where they need another explanation of why we can't leave. That's the real headline here.