Looks Like the Iraqis May Kill Bush's "Iraq Forever" Deal

It turns out that almost every political party in Iraq hates it, including the largest party in parliament, the ISCI, the Iranian stooges party, oppose it too, "Officials from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, an important Maliki ally, said several parts of the proposal violated Iraq’s sovereignty."

This is not surprising:

The Americans want to continue to have “a free hand” to arrest Iraqis and carry out military operations, and they want authority for more than 50 long-term military bases, Mr. Adeeb said. He said that he doubted that a security pact along the lines sought by the Americans would pass in the Iraqi Parliament.

Mr. Abadi, another senior member of Dawa, said Americans were insisting on keeping control of Iraqi airspace and retaining legal immunity for American troops, contractors and private security guards.

The US is claiming that this is "Iranian disinformation", and ambassador Crocker is saying that, "the agreement will not establish permanent bases in Iraq, and we anticipate that it will expressly forswear them", but Bush already said that no agreement is permanent, in a thousand years of so something might change.

It's also noted that Iraqi leaders are dubious about negotiating with a lame duck president, so come January 1, 2009, when the UN authorizations expire, both mercenaries contractors and US troops will be subject to Iraqi courts.