Here ya go. From Michael Gordon of the NY Times in fact. You know.....that bastion of conservatism?
Reporting by The New York Times' Michael Gordon paints a more complicated picture of U.S. incompetence and disengagement. Most notably, the Obama administration's insistence that any Status of Forces Agreement be ratified by Iraq's parliament set the stage for the inevitable failure of any agreement.
Simply put, while a number of Iraqi political leaders may have privately wished for continued American involvement to serve as a buffer and broker between both domestic rivals and neighboring regimes, far fewer were willing to support this position in a public, contentious debate. No one wants to be regarded as an American stooge in the prideful arena of Iraqi politics. Backing parliamentarians into a corner by demanding public ratification doomed a new SOFA to failure.
A SOFA does not guarantee airtight immunities for our troops while in Iraq if not approved by the legislature just as the 2008 SOFA was so subjected.
The following comes from Michael Gordan's oped:
"But the White House wanted airtight immunities for any troops staying in Iraq, which American government lawyers, the Iraqi chief justice and James F. Jeffrey, the American ambassador in Baghdad, insisted would require a new agreement that was endorsed by the Iraqi Parliament."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/09/2...-last-months-in-iraq.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
As Commander in Chief Obama did not have an option to send troops to a combat zone without airtight protection.
You cons care less about our troops well being than you own hate-filled political agenda.
If the Iraqi Chief Justice says it must go through parliament to be law and US legal advisers concur, that is not Obama inserting a poison pill - it is the law.
And the story you made up was that the Iraq Parliament did not pass the 2008 SOFA.
I asked you for a source for that and you do not appear to be able to find one.
"Surely one so wise could find a source that says the vote in iraq's parliament never took place. "
You wrote this story didnt you?
Sooooo, what's he do, he tells Maliki - who wanted a lot of troops left to assist him - that he could only have about 3,000 troops AND President DumbFuck inserts a POISON PILL. He requires that the Iraqi Legislature had to approve the agreement. Well a) that's difficult for a western legis but especially for one as messy as this one but b) that has never been a requirement in any of the 40 other SOFA agreements we have with other nations.
It was required in 2008 unless you can prove otherwise.
