It's beginning to look like that so-called Security Agreement Bush has been trying so hard to slip past Congress is going to come back and bite him in the ass. According Micheal Ware of CNN is warning that the Ieaqis may just decide to " take over this War ".
Maliki and others are not happy with many of the rules Bush wants. Things like 60 US bases, Immunity for Blackwater and the other contractors, control of the Iraqi Airspace, among other things. Ware told CNN tonight that if the Iraqi Parliament can get it together to pass the right laws that Bush could be forced to start the withdrawls before he leaves office. Talk about Bush being a laughing stock. His poor ego would not be able to handle being seny home with his tail between his legs. Personally I can't think of a more fitting end to this fiasco of Bush's Ego.
I should let Ware, the number one reporter in Iraq, explain it in his own words.
The NYTs is reporting that the Blackwater type guys might not want to stay and fight any more, well not if they know what;s good for themselves.
Already, intense criticism from Iraqi politicians has forced the Americans to retreat on several important issues, including immunity from prosecution for American contractors. Under the latest version of the pact, they could be subject to Iraqi law.
Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said that in his latest discussions, "The Americans did agree to remove the special contractors, the security contractors, from the immunity or the protection."
Damn , that had to hurt. http://www.nytimes.com/...
By Bush having to issue the orders to begin the withdrawl, his plan to dump this war in the next President lap would come to a end. The Failure of the War, both beginning, middle and end would fall on exactly the person that deserves it. There would be no spin that could claim it was Baracks, or the Democratic Party's fault. I call this a almost prefect ending, if there can be one to this mess. It would at least be a fitting slapdown.
I imagine this would ruin any of Cheney's plans to attack Iran before they leave office. Can you hear the squeal of the Neocons yet ? ( chuckle )
It could even speed up the processes to start the investigations that should follow Bush for the next 3 0r 4 yrs until he exhausts his appeals anyway.