Sorry Newtonusr, should you find this

To avoid unintended insult, the “you” and “yours” are generic, not specific or personal. Like all adults on the advanced side of the generation gap since there was one, the world is going to the dogs in a hand-basket.

All the best…..

History will not look kindly upon the US for our destruction of this place, but once we realized the scope of the wrong, we continued to muck about, and in secrecy.
The grandkids will wonder what we could possibly have been thinking.

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The Mongol sacking and burning of Bagdad, of the university and the libraries there are not forgotten in Iraq. Now the atrocity of attempted cultural extermination by American barbarians is added to the memories.

As for “The grandkids”, the trajectory of American education is such that it is more likely your “grandkids” will be dumber than a bag of hammers, completely incapable of such wonder, drooling their way through a miserable, mean existence, comforted solely by “how exceptional” they are, wrapped in their flags for shelter from the cold. In your calculations, never forget this possibility, have a good life…..

Oh, nice. Is this one of Humpty Dumpty’s lines? “First the vote, THEN the debate. Everything in proper order.”

This is how we are teaching them Democracy, right?

Who’s in charge of the curriculum? Tom Delay? Newt Gingrich?

Thanks, Siun!
Bob in HI

The US will turn over to the Iraq government all permanent buildings free and clear of any debt or obligation.

Okay. So what’s to stop us from detonating a bomb in it just before we hand it over. And when exactly does this hand-over occur (it really does not say). Turn it over to al-Maliki? The military?

Details, details.

Iraq is a hotbed of religous,sectarian and tribal mixes and blends that is not about to submit to WashingtonDC and American desires to control West Asian petro markets or the politics of American dominance in West Asia.

Perhaps if WashingtonDC could screw up to the levels of garrison troop counts and sheer ruthlessness of repression Iraq occupation by Americans could be done. But WashingtonDC has not the fortitude of driven desire needed to complete that position. Americans would have to yield any remaining claims to moral and ethical position on international stage.

This SOFA the Americans have pushed on al-Maliki who in turn has pushed on Iraqis has several expiration dates on it. Jan.20,2009 is one. November of 2010 is another. Those are the American expiration dates. The Iraqi expiration dates are much more elastic. Much more.

WashingtonDC cannot spend or kill enough to “win” in Iraq.

There is no victory to be won. WashingtonDC will be constrained by the cost of it. By the blood of it. By the ruthless and brutal depths of it.

Getting in was so easy. Staying to occupy was the stupid thing to do.

Getting out will likely not come on American terms or desires.

WashingtonDC may not like it. Too bad.

I’ve seen military high-level documents before (which this technically is) and this thing reads like something a bunch of college kids made up in Freshman Comp 101.