‘Power broker’ Cheney gets Iraqi pledge for long-term agreement.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/18/power-broker-cheney-gets-iraqi-pledge-for-long-term-agreement/

‘Power broker’ Cheney gets Iraqi pledge for long-term agreement.»

The AP reports that “Vice President Dick Cheney played the part of backroom power broker” during his visit to Iraq and “came away” with “pledges from Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to firm up a new blueprint for U.S.-Iraq relations that will stretch beyond the Bush presidency” and keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the U.N. mandate:

cheney-03-18web2.jpgTopics ranged from security in Iraq to Iran’s rising influence in Mideast, but a key item was about crafting a long-term agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, plus a narrower deal to define the legal basis for continued U.S. troop presence.

The deal would take the place of a U.N. Security Council resolution that expires in December, the same time Bush will be packing up to leave office.

The Bush administration contends that it has “constitutional authority” to “continue combat operations” in Iraq past December without Congress’s authorization.

[spanone]

1. we'll see about that mr chenee....we'll see

[maseman]

3. Wonder if he "brokered" the deal

with a shot-gun to their heads? Thug.

[madokie]

6. yes with a new crop of representatives in our houses we'll see about that

its going to be a bullet proof majority this time too, no more antsy pantsy try to co-exist any more, this time we're going for the jugular so to say.

[bdamomma]

2. The Congress(the House) has the power to stop this

only if they would get off their a$$es, and use the tools they have been given IMPEACHMENT.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Yes, Sir." - BushCo-picked Iraqi Puppet Pretenders

[elizfeelinggreat]

5. played the part?

He's always been the backroom power broker, hasn't he?

It seems that's the position he likes the most, the one where we don't know what he's doing until he's done it.

[jimshoes]

7. How can he be making plans for

AFTER he's gone from office? What's he gonna do, run the war from his bunker?

[katmondoo]

8. Bush has paved the way for future Presidents

to reverse whatever they see as not being their agenda. That was Bush's first move as President. He cut and slashed and nobody said a word.

[lonestarnot]

9. Jack O Lanterns can't power broker. Anything he does can be ignored.