Iran joins Iraq.100 Members of Iraqi parliament demand US Out of Iraq NOW.

[cyberpj]

Headlines : International
Iraq Signs Military Pact with Iran
Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:11:20 -0700Summary:

Here’s an update: The “democratically elected” government of Iraq, much-ballyhooed by the Bush adminstration and its toadies, has signed an agreement of military cooperation with current Bush public enemy number one, Iran.

In other news, 100 “democratically elected” members of the Iraqi parliament have signed a petition demanding that the US withdraw its forces from Iraq immediately.


By Neil MacDonald in Baghdad and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran
Republished from Financial Times

Iraq signs a pact in Tehran agreeing to accept Iranian military training and other cooperation.

Former foes Iraq and Iran announced “a new chapter” in their relations on Thursday, including cross-border military co-operation, dismissing US concerns about Iranian regional meddling.

On his first official visit to Tehran, Iraqi minister of defence Saadoun al-Dulaimi asserted his country’s sovereign right to seek help from wherever it sees fit in rebuilding its defence capabilities.

“Nobody can dictate to Iraq its relations with other countries,” Mr Dulaimi said in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Admiral Ali Shamkhani.

The two ministers said that a military co-operation agreement, now in the preparation, would include Iranian help with training and upgrading Iraq’s reconstituted armed forces, a process so far overseen by US and coalition advisers.

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/3670/Iraq_Signs_Military_Pact_with_Iran

[acmavm]

1. OMG, this is hilarious. Hilarious and sooooo poetically just. What is

the little goose stepping buffoon going to say now? The Iraqis siding up with Iran demanding he get the troops out. The Iraqis who won in his much touted election, you know, the historical one (as he tried to make is sound that Iraq had never had an election of any kind before).

Sometimes the irony is just to beautiful to put into words.

[cyberpj]

2. My worry is that he'll actually go nuclear on both of em. nt.

[acmavm]

3. And he's just unstable enough to do just that. Let's all hope and pray

that if the squatter in the White House ever goes for the nuclear football that someone knocks his ass cold before he can do any damage.

Does anyone really think that the military will start letting nukes fly if this crazy bastard gives the order? I don't know the answer to that. That's why I'm asking.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Theyr're going to have to Baker Act his sorry little ass... I'm sure of it

[acmavm]

5. I would have thought he would have been locked up for his (and our)

own protection long ago.

[cyberpj]

10. What is that? nt.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Lock him up for his own safety and for the safety of the people

around him... forcibly. He would have no choice in the matter if someone Baker Acted him.

[confludemocrat]

6. That day is coming (soon?): majority of Iraq parliament votes "US get out"

That would push him over the edge, I'm sure.

[cyberpj]

7. Is 100 member a majority? I need to look that up. Not a word in news. nt

[cyberpj]

8. 275 members in Iraqi Parliament - Here's a FAQ:

http://www.irc-co.com/elections/en/faq.asp#4

[cyberpj]

9. Reuters article -- this one also appears on LATimes -

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-07-07T090832Z_01_N07268326_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-IRAN-IRAQ-DC.XML

[Frederik]

12. This is the absolutely last thing the neo-cons wanted

The Iraqi-Syrian alliance was one of the reason they thought "Saddam had to go", and now the "New Iraq" has gone and signed an alliance with the new hardliner government in Iran instead. What comes around goes around, assholes. It's not like saner voices didn't predict this three years ago. I read somewhere else that the new deal entailed $1 billion worth of Iranian military aid to Iraq...

And, as the Ayatollah Khomeini once said, there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.

That doesn't mean they won't try though, which is the scary part.

[cyberpj]

13. You're so right. And scarier still, the thought that it's just what they

wanted so they can take 'em all on at once instead of little by little. They may feel the alliance just gives them a bigger (hey US...now it's scarier! Booga-booga!) excuse to expand operations, DOD money and Halliburton profits, er, operations.

[NVMojo]

14. Bush and Blair had to know this was coming. Why else were we suddenly

going to pull out of Iraq in 9 months after Rumsliar was saying it could be 24 years before we leave?