Misblog

Originally Published on May 31, 2008; Updated and Republished July 13, 2008:

The administration must submit for congressional approval any Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). This will prevent all agreements (secret or otherwise), whereby the thugs in Saudi Arabia fund¹ American troops as a private Iraqi mercenary force.

If the Iraq SOFA is not submitted for congressional approval, Congress must enact legislation declaring null and void any Iraq SOFA negotiated by the administration.

In America, We the People through our representatives in Congress have the final say on all issues of war and peace, not some rogue idiot president, declaring himself a unitary executive (aka king) who decides to fight and fund his own private war!

Web:

• UPDATED 07/13/2008 Reuters, U.S. and Iraq scale back security deal plans: W.Post. This amid reports that the Bush administration and its neoconservative disastrous delusional messianic vision of grandeur for Iraq and the Middle East is scaling back—a pragmatic secular European vision may be ramping up.

• UPDATED 06/04/2008 Independent, Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control.

  "A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November."--Patrick Cockburn--

• AFP, US says not seeking permanent bases in Iraq
• AP, Iraqi lawmaker: US-Iraq security talks stall

Blog: UPDATED 06/10/2008 NYT, Opinionator, Any Basis for Bases in Iraq?

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1. There's method, as well as madness, behind this administration's oil pricing policy—think in terms of a secret Nixonian slush-fund doled out by the thugs in Saudi Arabia.