Comments on: Iraq Ups The Ante: Again Demands Timetable For Ending US Occupation http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:29:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: DefendOurConstitution http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532259 DefendOurConstitution Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:49:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532259 <p>Maliki is clearly not yet getting the memo on sovereignty.</p> <p>Bush definition of sovereignty: “Do what we tell you to do. when we tetll you to do it and then claim that this was what you wanted to do anyway.” Brilliant, except Maliki clearly did not get the memo. He better watch out or he will be gone so fast (for someone that will get, read and obey memo) that he won’t even know what hit him.</p> Maliki is clearly not yet getting the memo on sovereignty.

Bush definition of sovereignty: “Do what we tell you to do. when we tetll you to do it and then claim that this was what you wanted to do anyway.” Brilliant, except Maliki clearly did not get the memo. He better watch out or he will be gone so fast (for someone that will get, read and obey memo) that he won’t even know what hit him.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532203 Elliott Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:20:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532203 <p>me too! hope the diggnical difficulties clear up soon. </p> <p>Do you reddit?<br /><a href="http://www.reddit.com/info/6qto4/comments/" rel="nofollow">Iraq Ups the Ante</a></p> <p>reddit’s how to get started:<br /><a href="http://www.reddit.com/help/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/help/</a></p> <p>and please, the FISA reddit’s from earlier today<br /><a href="http://www.reddit.com/info/6qrrd/comments/" rel="nofollow">Jane’s Our Full Page Ad</a><br /><a href="http://www.reddit.com/info/6qslb/comments/" rel="nofollow">Christy’s Stand and Deliver</a></p> me too! hope the diggnical difficulties clear up soon.

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Christy’s Stand and Deliver

]]> By: ubetchaiam http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532200 ubetchaiam Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:20:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532200 <p>Still can’t submit to ‘digg’ even when pasting the url into the ‘connection timed out’ page on Digg.</p> Still can’t submit to ‘digg’ even when pasting the url into the ‘connection timed out’ page on Digg.

]]> By: rwcole http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532186 rwcole Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:14:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532186 <p>Jane has a new post up on health care.</p> Jane has a new post up on health care.

]]> By: Redshift http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532187 Redshift Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:14:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532187 <p>Yes, nice to see you, too! Between campaign organizing, volunteer work, and hosting a child from Belarus, I’ve barely had time to do more than lurk lately!</p> Yes, nice to see you, too! Between campaign organizing, volunteer work, and hosting a child from Belarus, I’ve barely had time to do more than lurk lately!

]]> By: jacqrat http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532172 jacqrat Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:04:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532172 <p>Wow, it’s great to see some familiar faces in this thread, which I am now taking OT:</p> <p>Howie is blogging on HuffPo today and wishes help in getting his post on the front page. Could anyone with two minutes to spare, please go <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howie-klein/uprising-in-florida-meet_b_111445.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> and leave a comment???</p> <p>He thanks you :D (he’s too shy to ask himself, so he always makes me do this)</p> Wow, it’s great to see some familiar faces in this thread, which I am now taking OT:

Howie is blogging on HuffPo today and wishes help in getting his post on the front page. Could anyone with two minutes to spare, please go HERE and leave a comment???

He thanks you :D (he’s too shy to ask himself, so he always makes me do this)

]]> By: i4u2bi http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532168 i4u2bi Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:01:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532168 <p>Clearly the Iraq prime minister is just a tool of the ‘liberal left wing media’. he he he!</p> Clearly the Iraq prime minister is just a tool of the ‘liberal left wing media’. he he he!

]]> By: ubetchaiam http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532167 ubetchaiam Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:01:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532167 <p>Trying to ‘digg’ this but ‘connection timed out’ keeps repeating.</p> Trying to ‘digg’ this but ‘connection timed out’ keeps repeating.

]]> By: Redshift http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532166 Redshift Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:01:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532166 <p>If the UN mandate expires with no agreement, then our presence there becomes illegal. That would mean we’d have to get out only if we had an administration that followed the law.</p> <p>I suspect it’ll be an interesting dynamic as the election approaches. The approaching end of the administration will make the Bushies increasingly hysterical in their attempts to get their policies set in stone, while simultaneously providing <em>more</em> leverage to the Iraqis. If only there was a government that actually represented Iraq instead of a puppet full of corrupt cronies, something good might come of it.</p> If the UN mandate expires with no agreement, then our presence there becomes illegal. That would mean we’d have to get out only if we had an administration that followed the law.

I suspect it’ll be an interesting dynamic as the election approaches. The approaching end of the administration will make the Bushies increasingly hysterical in their attempts to get their policies set in stone, while simultaneously providing more leverage to the Iraqis. If only there was a government that actually represented Iraq instead of a puppet full of corrupt cronies, something good might come of it.

]]> By: MayDaze http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532155 MayDaze Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:54:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/08/iraqis-up-the-ante-no-security-deal-with-us-without-timeline-for-ending-occupation/#comment-1532155 <p>There was no doubt, but thanks for the clarification anyway. ;)</p> There was no doubt, but thanks for the clarification anyway. ;)

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