Iraq prime minister insisting on U.S withdrawal

I was reading a couple article yesterday about the prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, insisting that the U.S set up a timeline for withdrawing our troops. I think for the past couple years they have been pretty much doing what the U.S told them to. It appears that Iraq is starting to grow a set of balls. President Bush wanted full control of Iraqi air space, they told him nicely to go f*ck himself, lol. im sure the Iraqi’s want us out of there just as bad as most Americans want them home. And apparently, our troops can’t stay there past 12/31/08 unless the Iraqis give us permission. This is just what I read in my local paper so im not sure how accurate it is. So this is just open for discussion, how do you think it will play out. it was the first time I heard about this yesterday in the paper, but it said wouldn’t be able to stay if they told us to leave before signing any new agreement.