{"id":193783,"date":"2008-11-18T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/18\/iraqi-cabinet-approves-sof-pact\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T05:11:00","slug":"iraqi-cabinet-approves-sof-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/18\/iraqi-cabinet-approves-sof-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Cabinet Approves SOF Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/world\/story\/55974.html\">status of forces agreement goes to the Iraqi Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Changes demanded by the Iraqi government and accepted by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requiring the U.S. to get Iraqi consent before searching homes.<\/li>\n<li>Giving Iraqis authority over the international zone that houses the centers of American power in Baghdad.<\/li>\n<li>Enabling Iraqis to search U.S. cargo.<\/li>\n<li>Prohibiting Americans from conducting raids in other countries from Iraqi soil.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating the judicial immunity that applies to foreign contractors and to a lesser degree that of U.S. soldiers working in Iraq under the occupation&#8217;s current mandate.<\/li>\n<li>A time line for leaving the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, the Iraqis knew that Bush had to have this agreement, and so demanded, and got what they wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, now the status of forces agreement goes to the Iraqi Parliament. Changes demanded by the Iraqi government and accepted by Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122: Requiring the U.S. to get Iraqi consent before searching homes. Giving Iraqis authority over the international zone that houses the centers of American power in Baghdad. Enabling Iraqis to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1063,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}