Hey Congress? You could do this TOO you know

Standing up to President Bush and his administration, the Iraqi Government did not give into pressure to sign the Security Agreement that BushCo had been trying to force upon them.  This “Status-Of-Forces” agreement was being pushed hard by the Bush Administraion before they left office next January, as Bush and his cronies wanted to make absolutely sure they had tied the hands of the next Administration when it came to the troops in Iraq question.  

Unlike our Congress, Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki has learned to say “NO” to President Bush and has bucked the whole Bush Regime just recently when al-Malaki stated that it was getting close to time for all Foreign troops to leave his country.  

Of course, as soon as he stated this, the Bush Administration bumper sticker motto of “When they stand up, we will stand down” became “We aren’t standing down, thar’s OIL in them thar sands,” or something to that effect.

From The Washington Post:

U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have abandoned efforts to conclude a comprehensive agreement governing the long-term status of U.S troops in Iraq before the end of the Bush presidency, according to senior U.S. officials, effectively leaving talks over an extended U.S. military presence there to the next administration.

In place of the formal status-of-forces agreement negotiators had hoped to complete by July 31, the two governments are now working on a “bridge” document, more limited in both time and scope, that would allow basic U.S. military operations to continue beyond the expiration of a U.N. mandate at the end of the year.

The failure of months of negotiations over the more detailed accord — blamed on both the Iraqi refusal to accept U.S. terms and the complexity of the task — deals a blow to the Bush administration’s plans to leave in place a formal military architecture in Iraq that could last for years.

My emphasis

Hello, Bushdogs Blue Dog Democrats?  Also, Hello Senators Bayh (D-IN), Baucus (D-MT), Carper (D-DE), Casey (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND) , Feinstein (D-CA), Inouye (D-HI), Inouye (D-HI), Kohl (D-WI), Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln (D-AR), McCaskill (D-MO), Mikulski (D-MD), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Obama (D-IL,)Pryor (D-AR), Rockefeller (D-WV), Salazar (D-CO) and Webb (D-VA)?  Remember FISA?

Unlike the Iraqi’s who weren’t STUPID enough to sign a NEW agreement with the well know corrupt and criminal Bush Administration, WE here in the United States of America already had an agreement with the Bush Administraion.  SURE they ignored it and will continue to do so, but the Constitution used to be a pretty great agreement.  

If you Senators would have had the STRENGTH of CONVICTION instead of the NEED for GREED to stand up for that quaint document, The Constitution, this whole point would be moot, wouldn’t it?  

See how simple this is, Congress?

Although President Bush has repeatedly rejected calls for a troop withdrawal timeline, “we are talking about dates,” acknowledged one U.S. official close to the negotiations. Iraqi political leaders “are all telling us the same thing. They need something like this in there. . . . Iraqis want to know that foreign troops are not going to be here forever.”

 My emphasis

Even though Bush has fucking insisted that there will BE NO dates or timeline for withdrawls of our Military from Iraq, the Iraqi Government says there will be and it looks like there is going to be a timeline.  SEE HOW FUCKING EASY THAT IS, Congress?

Just stand up for what is right, stand up for Americans, stand up for the Constitution that you SWORE to uphold when you took official office.

How much you wanna bet that not one of them learned a damn thing from this episode??

Go along to get along, or just go along to get paid?  I wonder ….

U.S., Iraq scale down negotiations over forces