See other War, War, War Articles
Title: Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks
Source:
[None]
URL Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article4092919.ece
Published: Jun 9, 2008
Author: Deborah Haynes
Post Date: 2008-06-09 08:12:03 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 147
Comments: 7
American troops in Iraq would be confined to their bases and private security guards subject to local law if Iraq gets its way in negotiations with the US over the future status of American forces. According to a senior Iraqi official, the negotiations between the two allies became so fraught recently that President Bush intervened personally to defuse the situation. On Thursday he telephoned Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, to assure him that Washington was not seeking to undermine Iraq’s sovereignty and that America would reconsider any contentious part of the agreement. The current United Nations mandate for US troops expires at the end of this year and Washington wants to conclude a bilateral agreement with Baghdad for the future deployment of US forces. There are just over 150,000 US troops in Iraq living on scores of bases across the country, from little 30-men outposts to sprawling camps often built around old Iraqi army barracks. Construction work over the past five years has turned these bases into small towns of trailers, hangars and blast walls, equipped with a Pizza Hut, Starbucks-style coffee shops, cinemas and swimming pools. -Snip
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
It must be difficult swimming in those pools with the flack jacket on but, I heard, you got pretty good UV protection while wearing one.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
The above comment from the article, I believe, shows clear intent to colonize Iraq. Break it and we own it - Colin Powell.
lol
"HOLODOMOR" is Ukrainian word for "FAMINE-GENOCIDE"
Barracks would be the safest place for them if this "bilateral heavily laced with bribes agreement" is passed. The Iraqis are going to be very pissed irrespective of the fine print.
Sweet irony... The American liberators will be the Morlocks living in the
caves, and those former denizens will be the shadow government living as the
Eloi. Mission accomplished, again :)
U. S. Extorts Iraq to Approve Military Deal By PATRICK COCKBURN The US is holding hostage some $50 billion of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely. US negotiators are using the existence of $20bn in outstanding court judgments against Iraq in the US, to pressure their Iraqi counterparts into accepting the terms of the military deal, details of which were reported here yesterday. Iraq's foreign reserves are currently protected by a presidential order giving them immunity from judicial attachment but the US side in the talks has suggested that if the UN mandate, under which the money is held, lapses and is not replaced by the new agreement, then Iraq's funds would lose this immunity. The cost to Iraq of this happening would be the immediate loss of $20bn. The US is able to threaten Iraq with the loss of 40 per cent of its foreign exchange reserves They will sign. And we will get the extraterritorial rights commonly afforded to all traditional colonial powers. Why? We got them by the balls.
Summoning every resource of eloquence and inspiration at his disposal, bush tells the Pentagon what he wants done about this... "Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal. There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!"
#2. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#1)
Construction work over the past five years has turned these bases into small towns of trailers, hangars and blast walls, equipped with a Pizza Hut, Starbucks-style coffee shops, cinemas and swimming pools.
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
to assure him that Washington was not seeking to undermine Iraq’s sovereignty and that America would reconsider any contentious part of the agreement
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#5. To: scrapper2, angle, all (#4)
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Holds $50 Billion Hostage
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest