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Hell no we wont go!
We never lost control,
You’re face to face,
With the man who sold the world
White House Releases “Principles” for Permanent Iraqi Presence
By Spencer Ackerman - November 26, 2007, 11:12AM
So it begins. After years of obfuscation and denial on the length of the U.S.’s stay in Iraq, the White House and the Maliki government have released a joint declaration of “principles” for “friendship and cooperation.” Apparently President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed the declaration during a morning teleconference.
Oil for everyone!
A “democratic Iraq” here means the Shiite-led Iraqi government. The current political arrangement will receive U.S. military protection against coups or any other internal subversion. That’s something the Iraqi government wants desperately: not only is it massively unpopular, even among Iraqi Shiites, but the increasing U.S.-Sunni security cooperation strikes the Shiite government — with some justification — as a recipe for a future coup.
Kinder, gentler Dictators!
5 Responses to “Hell no we wont go!”
looks like us dirty hippies were right. won’t hold my breath on an apology.
How nice to call it a “Declaration of Friendship” instead of a Treaty to bypass Congress.
Now what we need is a montage of Maliki and Bush’s day together … holding hands in a field of sunflowers, splashing each other as they play in the pool, waterboarding their favorite Sunnis … oh it would just be too cute!
We are just going to have to be satisfied with knowing we were right. The thing is that we just looked at the facts and extrapolated the truth which was in plain sight. Now that we have secured all the Iraqi oil maybe we will ratchet down the sword waving at Iran but on second thought…these guys don’t understand the concept of enough.
Ya…on Iran.
Their almost holding hands in the photo. I know they want to.