{"id":195087,"date":"2008-07-30T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/oh-crap-the-us-iraq-forever-deal-seems-back-on\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T00:50:00","slug":"oh-crap-the-us-iraq-forever-deal-seems-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/oh-crap-the-us-iraq-forever-deal-seems-back-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Crap!  The US-Iraq Forever Deal Seems Back On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB121737359317894997-lMyQjAxMDI4MTM3MDMzNzAzWj.html\">the status of forces agreement is back in active negotiation<\/a>, complete with bullsh@% &#8220;time horizon&#8221;. <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Bush administration&#8217;s embrace of a flexible timeline for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq has accelerated negotiations between Washington and Baghdad over a long-term security pact, officials from both sides said.<\/p>\n<p>The optimism marks a turnaround from just a month ago, when big differences seemed to have deadlocked talks over the terms of a continued American military presence in the country. In June, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the talks were at a &#8220;dead end,&#8221; dimming hopes of reaching a deal by July 31 &#8212; a goal the Bush administration has pushed hard to meet.<\/p>\n<p>This month, however, the White House said it had agreed to a &#8220;general time horizon&#8221; for troop withdrawals, breaking from its long-held public resistance to the notion. The change has helped overcome differences on other issues, such as immunity for U.S. troops, negotiators on both sides said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great googley moogley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the status of forces agreement is back in active negotiation, complete with bullsh@% &#8220;time horizon&#8221;. The Bush administration&#8217;s embrace of a flexible timeline for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq has accelerated negotiations between Washington and Baghdad over a long-term security pact, officials from both sides said. The optimism marks a turnaround from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195087"}],"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=195087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}