Patrick Coburn has a chilling piece in the Independent about what Bush is trying to push through the puppet government of Iraq. The subhead gives a nice summary:
Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors
The deal would effectively tie the hands of the next administration unless the Iraqis can muster the political courage to reject it. Since the Bush administration has done everything possible to keep the terms secret to ward off an Iraqi backlash, the least we can do is make sure the leak spreads to flood proportion.
Since the story has now broken on the DD front page, courtesy of Mishima, I thought I would focus on a few key contradictions based on quotes from the article.