It's rather amusing and telling that in the neo-conman timetable, five years isn't already "long term". The neo-conmen, McBatshit included, desperately wish to repeat the catastrophic foreign policy failure that has been our Korea policy for the past 50 years. Apparently 50 years is not enough time to arm, train and provide enough intel for the South Koreans to defend themselves - so they live and thrive under our state-sponsored welfare system, their security provided on the backs of the American taxpayer ...

... and that seems to be OK with our media, our politicians and our uninformed electorate.

So lets piss away another half-century of "aid" to Iraq ...

... or, better yet, how about we take our heads out of our asses.

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If the Iraq government doesn't understand how our government works, they will soon find out. Nice try George, you'll have to come up with another way to secure your oil interests.

The next Commander in Chief , President Obama will be voiding this deal big time.

He is just following orders from his top advisers. He knows nothing.

There's nothing - well, not too much - wrong with the USA that the heaviest slab of concrete able to be supported by as many of the world's largest cranes as feasible dropped from the greatest height possible on all of the assembled gangsters of the BushCheneyNeoConReThug Mafia wouldn't fix.

i have a great idea. the USA should bomb out and occupy all the middle easy countries including israel. random waterboardings should keep the natives calm while they rejoice in american style freedom and peace forever.

That sort of thing happens when you build enduring freedom bases on top of Iraqi oil reserves.

"...the Bush administration has begun negotiations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for years..."

You mean the same Snori al-Milky that will be deposed next month? That Snori? Well, if you believe that, you don't know Snori. MY Snori will find a way to leave the country BEFORE being deposed.

Must be a misprint. I distinctly heard the President say it was a liberation.
When words are this cheap, Occupation=Conquest=kind of like Poland, but drier=Colonialism.

Bush is gonna leave a big steamer on the porch of America and he isn't even gonna wipe his ass.

And in other news today Pinocchio began negotiations with Giuseppe that would allow his strings to remain in place until he regains full control of his wayward body members some of which has begun attacking each other and "treating his body like it was a circus" in the words of the puppet's wooden spokes-dowel.

al-Maliki was the person who told the C I A that Sadam had WMD'S.

al-Maliki then went to England and told M I 6 that Sadam had WMD'S, and if they did not believe him they could ask the C I A. MI 6 calls the C IA and they yes we heard that.

MI 6 releases new story the Sadam has WMD'S. Then Bush has a reason to push for war.

Funny huh????

al-Maliki used to work for Exxon. Still funny??

"Negotiating", as they call it, while the country is under military occupation is yet another war crime.

That would be called a treaty, and treaties needs to ratified by Congress. These sons of bitches think they can do anything as long as it fits in their concept of perpetual war.

The Iraqi's, and that's a majority marched in the streets, you wouldn't know it too watch the regular stations but they did, they want us OUT of Iraq. But they do want us to leave them a blank check when we leave so they can use our money to continue their civil WAR.
Pull our troops and whatever $$ is left (hahahaha) out now and tell them to handle their own problems our military has done their job and I for one don't want to leave them over there as targets while Bush and Cheney retire to their mansions and count their gold coins.

Negotiating to stay in Iraq long term? Has he forgotten that we have a say in this? He once commented that it would be easier to run this country if it were a dictatorship; it would appear that he has made it so!

i had heard of this awhile ago but until now, no affirmation. shouldn't the msm be on this? it's a travesty.
i realize the msm has more important things to go after; obama slipped and almost fell, hillary used the wrong fork, etc, etc. i think this should be headline news. it's outrageous! almost nothing has been written about the u.s. embassy in baghdad - the largest on the planet. and on it goes.

Finally - he's negotiating!

There is but one appropriate thing for our military, as a unit, to do. STAND DOWN. Refuse to obey illegal orders. They MUST honor their sworn oath to the Constitution, not the President! They swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States first and foremost, and the only way they can do that now is to STAND DOWN. Only they can end this nightmare.

I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC; THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; AND THAT I WILL OBEY THE ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER ME, ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. SO HELP ME GOD.

The order of the oath is everything. The first duty is to protect the Constitution from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. When the President is one of those domestic enemies (aka a violator of the very Constitution HE is sworn to protect and defend), the latter oath to obey his orders is null and void.

Honor your oath...STAND DOWN!!!!

Contempt is this man's middle name, not Walker. This action, which is a treaty, is openly contemptuous of the Constitution, which requires Congressional advice and consent and approval, while being totally contemptuous of the Congress itself. And of course, the Republicans in Congress go along with the contempt, which is to say, they have contempt for the very offices they hold. And the Democrats aren't any better, in fact they're worse, in that at least the Republicans aren't hiding their criminal nature, they're giving this country and all of it's laws their middle fingers. The Democrats wrap themselves in the American flag, and then go along with whatever the minority party demands.

It's long since established that this is by far the worst President and executive branch in US history, but the Congress is worse. They've done NOTHING to even slow the messianic nightmare vision this insane man has for the world. He wants world war, and he wants millions dead. He's already past a million in Iraq, and I'd say it's very likely his actions will see tens of millions, if not more, die in the coming years and decades. The damage that has been done by this boneheaded hardline regime is beyond anything this country has seen before, and will take centuries to fix...if it's even possible to fix.

But but Bush Inc. said it would only take 6 months. Lies on top of lies from all politicians.

Anyone that was paying attention knew this was coming anyway.
Maybe Nancy & Harry weren't paying attention.
They could have done *something* about it.

To understand Middle Eastern philosophy and the marketplace, it's all about haggling. The second we walk away and actually start moving away, they'll jump and make a counterbargain. But since this administration can barely find Iraq on a map, why should they listen. In the words of Dick Cheney, "so"?

The end is January 09, so what do they know and don't want to tell us is my question?
With Hillary or McCain we shall be there forever.

"the Bush administration has begun negotiations with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for years, even decades, after President George W. Bush leaves office"

Looks like the neocons are taking full advantage of the media's complete focus on the democratic party dramas. The American president is quite literally a "Burning" Bush; the mainstream media remains complicit. Where are the "checks and balances" in our government when we really need them? Remember when Bush said he was against America being in the "nation building" business? And the republicans had the nerve to call Kerry a "flip-flopper!"