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"Iraq: is the SOFA viable?" written 01/14/2009:
"The Status of Forces Agreement between the governments of Iraq and the United States comes with outrageous stipulations that render our troops helpless, subject them to Iraqi military tribunals, halt U.S. military operations, and turn vengeful detainees over to the Iraqis. So what is the point of leaving our troops there as potted plants for the next three years?
Anyone who thinks this SOFA is similar to that of the pacts we have with Germany or Japan is delusional. There will be no safe tours of the Iraqi countryside for our troops on R&R. ***The Bush Administration, in one of their last attempts to salvage some grain of positive legacy, pushed this "rush job" through so they can say "look how far the Iraqis have come, see, we really did liberate them." At the same time a bipartisan majority of Congress sat on their hands with the deer in the headlights look. Knowing it's is going to blow up in the Obama administration's face. You gotta love how politics works"***
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I found this comment on the Iraq SOFA very interesting..although I think he refers to problems that could have arisen between then and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.. but..now..
Bush and his cronies 'white out' the SOFA they signed and blame President Obama for not renegotiating a SOFA that would have allowed a larger number of US troops to remain in Iraq to 'keep the peace"
(If I had greater skillz, I'd post the link)
who gives all the other chimps a bad name
You have no idea what you ever said. You were always in a self-induced stupor.
You don't get to gloat. You created this mess. You should be rotting in prison along with Cheney and the rest of your evil enablers. Go to hell. 