McConnell: U.S. would leave if Iraq asked

WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Sunday if the Iraqi Parliament votes to ask the United States to leave Iraq, "we'll be glad to comply."

McConnell, appearing on CNN's "Late Edition," told interviewer Wolf Blitzer the Iraqi government was "a huge disappointment."

"Republicans overwhelmingly feel disappointed about the Iraqi government," McConnell said. "I read just this week that a significant number of the Iraqi Parliament want to vote to ask us to leave. I want to assure you, Wolf, if they vote to ask us to leave, we'll be glad to comply with their request."

McConnell said there is a "growing sense of bipartisan frustration" in the U.S. Senate over what he called the lack of political progress in Iraq.

He criticized House Democrats for going "from micromanaging the war to now trying to micro-fund the war," by promoting a bill that funds the war in short increments.

"The good news is that there's a bipartisan majority in opposition to that in the Senate," said McConnell.

He said he and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are working to get a war funding bill to President George W. Bush's desk before Memorial Day, May 28.