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Bush and Maliki supposedly are drawing up plans for the long-term relationship between Iraq and the U.S. Except that lots of lives are at stake, it sounds kind of like a couple that’s been living together for nearly five years finally announcing their marriage plans.
Bush, Maliki Sign Pact on Iraq’s Future (Washington Post)
The interesting question is whether this term-limited pair actually can impose anything long-term on their countries and the region. Will they get away with it legally, and do they have the political clout to leave their wish list for their successors?
P.M. Carpenter weighs in on these issues in “Another power-grab — Bush’s unexceptional bullying in the face of congressional timidity.” Also raising the issue is Yale University Professor Bruce Ackerman, writing in an LA Times Op-ed, “Bush Isn’t the Only Decider.” Bob Fertik at Democrats.com analyzes the “agreement,” as well.
Will Iraq ignore their constitution and go along with Maliki? Will the U.S. Congress wake up to take back their constitutionally granted power to enact (or not) international treaties? Will the Democrats running for president draw a line in the sand, and call the bluff of an Executive lame duck?
If not, why not? Do they simply agree with Bush that the US belongs there for another fifty or one hundred years, as long as the oil, and our need for it, remain?
November 30th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
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December 1st, 2007 at 1:45 am
The crooks in Congress want oil. The crooks in the White House want oil. The crooks in the Supreme Court (5 of them) would rubberstamp anything Bush wanted. The crooks on the streets driving SUVs to the Mall, want oil. The crooked oil companies want the billions to continue to flow. The warmongers and warprofiteers want oil. Who has power? Who has the big bucks? Who makes the rules? Iraq has oil. Do the math. At this point in time, Bush and Maliki could spit in the sand and turn around 3 times and it would be considered a legal, binding agreement no matter what it is called. We live in a crooked world. Oil is the root of all evil.