Is Iraq really serious about to be removed from the UN mandate?

Al-Hayat Wash­ing­ton Chief Bureau Raghida Dhrgam wrote the fol­low­ing in her long arti­cle today about the U.S. econ­omy crisis:

Accord­ing to Iraqi sources, Iraqis are already started prepar­ing to extend the man­date of the multi­na­tional forces in the Secu­rity Council.

The Iraqi gov­ern­ment wants to be removed from the UN man­date under chap­ter VII for polit­i­cal and sov­er­eignty rea­sons get out from under Chap­ter VII of the rea­sons but at the same they don’t want to be removed for finan­cial reasons.

The writer added that even if the Iraq gov­ern­ment chooses to extend the pres­ence of the U.S. forces, then the Amer­i­cans should bar­gain with other countries:

As for what really hap­pens in Iraq decided to extend the U.S. forces pres­ence will depends on the bar­gain between U.S. — Rus­sia and Rus­sia — Europe nego­ti­a­tions in the next few months.