BAGHDAD, Sept. 29, 2007
Iraq: We'll Negotiate Long-Term Presence
Asks U.N. Security Council To Extend Mandate For U.S. Forces Through End Of Next Year
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Officials said Iraq would seek a long-term, bilateral security agreement with the United States like the ones Washington has with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Egypt.
Aides to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the mandate extension for the U.S.-led forces in Iraq, due to be discussed at the end of this year, would be "the last extension for these forces."
Zebari, who has been in New York for the General Assembly session, first disclosed the plan in an interview with the London-based Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the Security Council on June 8, 2004, said the U.S.-led multinational force would remain in Iraq at the request of the interim government that was about to assume control of the country from the United States and Britain.
The resolution, drafted by the United States, authorizes a review of the mandate at the request of the Iraqi government every six months. The mandate last was extended for one year on Dec. 31 and expires at end of this year.
"We will ask the council to extend the mandate for another year...then our negotiations with the Security Council will be kicked off," Zebari was quoted as saying.
"We will ask the council to include an article that allows Iraq to enter into negotiations with the United States to reach long-term security agreements to meet Iraq's security needs bilaterally," Zebari added.
"The negotiations and talks over the security agreements will take a long time as they will cover the issues of sovereignty and immunity, the mission of these forces, Iraq's security needs and the role of the U.S. forces in training (Iraqi forces)," he said.
Zebari said the bilateral agreement would "not set a timetable (for withdrawal of U.S. forces)...but could include an article calling for decreasing their numbers."
Meanwhile, Iraq's vice president said Saturday that his country will not be used as a base to launch attacks against Iran or Syria.
Adel Abdul-Mahdi said he discussed security and other regional issues with Syrian President Bashar Assad during their meeting Saturday in Damascus. In response to a reporter's question about a possible U.S. military strike against Iran, the Iraqi vice president said: "Iraq does not accept that its territory be used for any aggression against any neighboring country."
He also predicted the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq by the end of 2008; he did not elaborate.
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It''s not about you and I - though we pay the cost - it''s all about his rich buddies becoming richer then they were before.
GW Bush doesn''t give a hoot about America. - Reply to this comment
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Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
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- v_1618--If Bush were foolish enough to have tried to ''bring us cheap oil'', he would have been impeached during his first term...The whole point of the Stupid Peoples'' War is drive the price of oil upwards. The oil boys want the cheap production so they can manipulate the price...when they limit its production, their own resources become more lucrative.
This war was about oil, but not about bringing a nation full of obese ''tards piloting SUVs around to the Dunkin''Donuts cheap gas. - Reply to this comment
- BUSH THE MAN WHO SOLD THE UNITED STATES FOR CHEEP OIL...
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- It seems that the surge has about run its course and it is time for Barney''s protege, General Betrayus, to take another walk down his Potemkin Village street, Haifa Sttreet, in Baghdad, ''where the skies are not cloudy all day,'' to sell his ''all is swell'' message to the War Pig faithful.
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- The Iraqi VP announced from Damascus that Iraq will not be used as a base from which to launch an attack against Iran or Syria.
This toothless muppet is deluding himself. If a private security firm can murder Iraqi citizens on the streets of its capital with impunity, who can trust the word of one of the rulers of the Green Zone?
These Quislings can''t even control their own capital, just what kind of deluded souls think that the Iraqi government has any control over what its masters will or won''t do? - Reply to this comment
- That the US muppet regime in Baghdad is represented at the UN is as sick a joke as the multiple representatives of the constituent states of the USSR in that worthless body. The US Senate just presumed to vote a partition in Iraq..."All Iraq is divided into three parts."...A private contracting firms employee machinegun a crowd of ''free'' Iraqis and they walk free today and the firm is still in business in Iraq...Seven Iraqi children are murdered playing a game by a US helicopter gunship (aren''t our pilots ever so courageous?...Brits, children and old women aren''t safe, but the al CIAda just walk between the raindrops)
Troops Home Now! Bring an end to the Washington Regime''s genocidal rule in Iraq. One million Iraqis have died--the rest want the US troops our of Iraq. Only the Quislings want us to stay. The real enemy of the people of the United States are in the board rooms, the international banks and in Washington and London. Restore the Republic! - Reply to this comment
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There are big differences. Even though Japan was suckered into it, they did attack us. They lost, and we rewrote their constitution.
In the case of Iraq, we attacked them, occupied them, stole their oil, and installed our puppet to rule over them.
Had Japan successfully occupied us and done the same, I doubt if you would be willing to accept them as friends. - Reply to this comment
- Why? Only 2+ months ago they said they don''''t need or want us any more. So which is it? And why are our troops dying for this nonsense?
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Because Bechtel and Halliburton havent stolen all the money yet, so Bushit reads Maliki the riot act, and bling!, another year killing and dying for the sake of Bush''s pocket. Maliki is not the legitimate ruler if Iraq, the Iraqis don''t accept a Bushpuppet, so nothing he says carries any popular authority. - Reply to this comment
- I can see the tactic that Iraqi government feels that it must employ in order to become a viable presence with the rest of the Arab World. The Iraqi government feels that it has to distance itself from the U.S. and its policies hence the reason for the rather high handed mannerism they take towards the U.S. with regards to Iran.
It would be so refreshing instead to see the Iraqi government employing more the Japanese approach with new prime minister. In spite of the World War II - or perhaps in part because of World War II, they consider that keeping the U.S. as a good ally is a beneficial move. After all, there would not have been a new Iraqi government if it had not been for the United States. There may be problem but at least the U.S. gave the Iraqi people a chance (and resources) for taking care of those problems.
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- Hummmmm,,,, Great Idea, Redeploy all our troops jail the Bush advisors & Give them Blacwater USA on a No-Return Contract
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- Whether the United States stays in Iraq or not, Americans need to hear Iraqi''s want us there and that the U.S. is not there by force or occupation. I think if the U.S. stays in Iraq it should be up to the American people, not one person, and decided by the Vote, even though it already was in the 2006 Election cycle which was already ignored! The U.S. if it does stay now needs to work out who pays for it, its time for the U.S. to get paid, the American Taxpayer should no longer eat this Iraq bill.
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- "We will ask the council to include an article that allows Iraq to enter into negotiations with the United States to reach long-term security agreements to meet Iraq''s security needs bilaterally," Zebari added.
-This sounds like the owner of a shop on one of Chicago''s streets asking the city police center to allow him for a signed protection agreement with the Al-Capone-Mafia thugs. Doesn''t it? - Reply to this comment
- Iraq does not appear to speak with one voice on this matter. I can understand why they want to extend it, but I do not see a plan where the troops will not be needed one year from now.
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- Wait just a minute! Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on July 14, 2007:
"We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw at any time they want."
At the same time Hassan al-Suneid, one of Maliki''s top aides, said the U.S. military was committing human rights violations, embarassing the Iraqi government with its tactics, and cooperating with "gangs of killers" in its campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq.
"...long-term, bilateral security agreement with the United States...?" Why? Only 2+ months ago they said they don''t need or want us any more. So which is it? And why are our troops dying for this nonsense? - Reply to this comment
- Puleeeeeze! "Zebari.........first disclosed the plan.......Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awshi,er,Azzwi, Awsat. Nooooooo, you folks get your azzes to work to pass legislation to get your people under control. Huh, I reckon WE have to do the same thing, ''cept it''s the politicians for us. Especially #1 and #2. Now, that''s funny-1&2!!!
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