Iraqis may offer US deal to stay longer

[boricua79]

Source: Yahoo.com

Iraqis may offer US deal to stay longer

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us

Iraq's government is prepared to offer the U.S. a long-term troop presence in Iraq and preferential treatment for American investments in return for an American guarantee of long-term security including defense against internal coups, The Associated Press learned Monday.

The proposal, described to the AP by two senior officials familiar with the issue, is one of the first indications that the United States and Iraq are beginning to explore what their relationship might look like, once the U.S. significantly draws down its troop presence.
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This is my first time posting a Latest Breaking News, so I apologize if it doesn't meet the format requirements.

My 2 cents: here's how the long-term occupation of iraq begins...with open-ended "agreements" to "protect" from "internal coups". So, now our military will become a permanent national police / national guard of Iraq?

This is not what the Iraqis or American people want...but yet...this is democracy?

[unhappycamper]

1. It is.

At the barrel of a gun.

[Flatline]

2. WOW I didn't know we were International babysiters? n/t

[0007]

8. Look around! We have over 700 bases in foreign counties.

737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire

http://www.alternet.org/story/47998/

[Divine Discontent]

11. goodness

that's sickening.... how many people are deployed around the world for us, right now you think? 3/4 million? talk about an international industrial complex...

this Iraq story about 50,000 us troops to be permanently stationed should be a HUGE way to get more senate seats and congressional races to go our way!

this deserves much more attention... it's like I said, truly sickening.

dammit we're not the world's babysitters, and I wonder how many billions a year we waste on things we don't need in the military? we shouldn't be paying the parents to watch the kids!

[texanshatingbush]

3. Wonder if the Bushies will officially make US forces into mercenaries...

...by agreeing to keep them in Iraq in exchange for "preferential treatment for American investments".

Gee, I don't think people will be keen on having their loved ones in harms way (and harmed) just so Halliburton can have a cozy open-ended gazillion-dollar contract to "rebuild" Iraq.

But then, I've been fooled before by the koolaid drinkers.

[boricua79]

4. Did Germany and Japan

give the U.S. "preferential" treatment for their investors?

Sounds to me like they're just legitimizing the spoils of war.

But hey, if people have loved ones in harms way, and those in harms way keep participating in this farce, they're responsible for the consequences that entails.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Isn't it the height of irony when a country humbly requests an invading

country that occupies the former country to continue to occupy it, subordinating itself to the latter country.

[Angela Shelley]

6. 100% Propaganda, 0% Beef

didn´t fool me.

[0007]

9. Free bullshit meter

[acmavm]

7. VERY important phrase here...

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...including defense against internal coups.

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[Angela Shelley]

10. oh, you mean they have "homegrown terrorists" too?

well, we now have a plan to battle this problem.

[mlevans]

12. The question that occurs to me is...

"which Iraqis"? I've a strong suspicion that the supporters of this deal represent a small minority of those currently "in power" (insofar as any Iraqis are actually in power), and would be willing to bet no vote or even informal poll has been taken to determine the will of the people in this. Kind of like policy decisions in the U.S. in recent years.

[classysassy]

13. The puppets

only the thugs Bush put in place want us to stay.

[Joanne98]

14. And there it is!

[rockybelt]

15. Against internal coups?

What the hell does that statement mean?

Protect against an internal coup of the US installed premiere?
Protect against an internal coup of the "freely elected" premiere?
Protect against an internal coup of the Iraqi military?
Protect against an internal coup from sectarianism?
Protect against an internal coup against a brutal dictator?

Let's get to the truth. This regime over here wants to rule the regime over there.

I wonder why.

This smells to high heaven and the smell is pretty bad.

Another reason to let this regime kill thousands more of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Not to even mention the rage that will occur among neighboring countries. If this happens, I don't think we've seen anything yet.