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mission accomplished .....The New York Times recently reported that the bushit administration has "scaled back" its benchmarks for political progress in Iraq, instead "focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals." Yesterday, the administration announced one of its goals: an endless, unqualified, "enduring" presence in Iraq. Bushit & his Iraqi lapdog, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, "signed the new US-Iraq 'declaration of principles' during a secure video conference Monday morning." The key principle in the agreement, according to the White House, is that "Iraq's leaders have asked for an enduring relationship with America, and we seek an enduring relationship with a democratic Iraq." Iraqi officials told the Associated Press that "Iraq's government will embrace a long-term U.S. troop presence in return for US security guarantees as part of a strategic partnership." The White House's determination to establish a permanent presence in Iraq contradicts its long record of declarations against permanent bases.In a press briefing yesterday, White House war czar Gen. Doug Lute said the new long-term occupation plan won't require Congress's approval. "We don't anticipate now that these negotiations will lead to the status of a formal treaty which would then bring us to formal negotiations or formal inputs from the Congress," said Lute.
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in the footprints of baghdad bob .....
George Bush's adventures in the Middle East have succeeded in one respect: he's created in Baghdad a rump democracy very much in the image of what his own administration has tried to do in Washington.
This week, Bush and Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki signed a "declaration of priniciples," that would result in the long-term presence of as many as 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Various commentators noted that the agreement was not made a formal treaty, which would require ratification by Congress.
But few pointed out that the same applies in Baghdad, where two-thirds of the Iraqi parliament must ratify any international agreement - Maliki was also avoiding his own government's legislators.
We also learned this week that the Iraqi government is cooking the books in reporting the number of refugees returning from neighboring countries and the recent lull in violence.
According to the LA Times, the Iraqi government's spin has gotten so bad that even U.S. military officials no longer trust the data being provided to them by their Iraqi counterparts.
So Baghdad and Washington have in common executives hell-bent on circumventing their legislatures and governments that are as trustworthy as Baghdad Bob.
Ain't freedom grand!
Bush-Maliki Agreement Defies US Laws, Iraqi Parliament
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