{"id":195964,"date":"2008-06-02T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/looks-like-the-iraqis-may-kill-bushs-iraq-forever-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:11:00","slug":"looks-like-the-iraqis-may-kill-bushs-iraq-forever-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/looks-like-the-iraqis-may-kill-bushs-iraq-forever-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like the Iraqis May Kill Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Iraq Forever&#8221; Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/31\/world\/middleeast\/31iraq.html?partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">almost every political party in Iraq hates it<\/a>, including the largest party in parliament, the ISCI, the Iranian stooges party, oppose it too, &#8220;Officials from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, an important Maliki ally, said several parts of the proposal violated Iraq\u2019s sovereignty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not surprising:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p> The Americans want to continue to have \u201ca free hand\u201d to arrest Iraqis and carry out military operations, and they want authority for more than 50 long-term military bases, Mr. Adeeb said. He said that he doubted that a security pact along the lines sought by the Americans would pass in the Iraqi Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Abadi, another senior member of Dawa, said Americans were insisting on keeping control of Iraqi airspace and retaining legal immunity for American troops, contractors and private security guards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US is claiming that this is &#8220;Iranian disinformation&#8221;, and ambassador Crocker is saying that, &#8220;the agreement will not establish permanent bases in Iraq, and we anticipate that it will expressly forswear them&#8221;, but Bush already said that no agreement is permanent, in a thousand years of so something might change.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also noted that Iraqi leaders are dubious about negotiating with a lame duck president, so come January 1, 2009, when the UN authorizations expire, both <strike>mercenaries<\/strike> contractors and US troops will be subject to Iraqi courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that almost every political party in Iraq hates it, including the largest party in parliament, the ISCI, the Iranian stooges party, oppose it too, &#8220;Officials from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, an important Maliki ally, said several parts of the proposal violated Iraq\u2019s sovereignty.&#8221; This is not surprising: The Americans want &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-195964","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\/195964"}],"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=195964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}