Lieberman: Iraqi Opposition To U.S. Security Agreement Is ‘A Sign Of Our Success In Iraq’»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/11/lieberman-iraq-success/

Lieberman: Iraqi Opposition To U.S. Security Agreement Is ‘A Sign Of Our Success In Iraq’»



The Bush administration is currently trying to push Iraqis into accepting a long-term security agreement that would “perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely.” The U.S. demands include nearly 60 permanent bases in Iraq, immunity for foreign contractors, and control over air space.

Iraqi opposition to this bill is growing so intense that Iraqi parliament member Nadeem al-Jaberi recently testified to the House that 70 percent of Iraqis are in favor of the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Some more voices of opposition from prominent Iraqi officials:

“The Americans are making demands that would lead to the colonization of Iraq.” — Sami al-Askari, a senior Shiite politician on parliament’s foreign relations committee who is close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

“We rejected the whole thing from the beginning. In my point of view, it would just be a new occupation with an Iraqi signature.” — Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, a senior lawmaker from the Supreme Council

“What the U.S. wants is to take the current status quo and try to regulate it in a new agreement. … Signing the agreement would mean that the Iraqi government had given up its sovereignty by its own consent. And that will never happen.” — Haider al-Abadi, a parliament member from Maliki’s Dawa party

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This is all very bad news…unless you’re a member of the Bush administration or one of its close allies. In a McCain campaign conference call today, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told reporters that this opposition was actually a sign of the Bush administration’s “success” in the war:

The second thing I’d say is the very fact that we’re at a point where the Iraqi leadership wants to negotiate this agreement is a sign of our success in Iraq, which is that Iraq now has a sovereign, independent, self-government.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/11/lieberman-iraq-success/

[margotb822]

1. Failure is success

The constant spin is making me nauseous...

[Disturbed]

3. Iraqis don't want to be a US colony.

They refuse to sign over the sovereignty & Oil. Busholini is the "Uniter" after all.

[ladjf]

6. The Americans don't want to be a colony for big businesses.

More and more, working Americans are being exploited like those in "colonies".

[jimshoes]

2. Of course.

Self delusion is a prerequisite for being a neocon enabling warmonger fascist.

[ladjf]

4. The best way to shut Lieberman up is to stop listening to him.

[Solly Mack]

5. LMAO. And to think people elect such morons