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Obama didn't negotiate ANYTHING! What leverage did the Iraqis have in negotiations?
You are lying. There were negotiations . The Iraqis were not that dependent on us - they were buying military hardware planes and tanks from our defense industry. You got it ass-backwards. The Iraqis were steadfast in not granting amnesty. It was a deal breaker that could not be resolved.
The leverage Iraqis had was their sovereignty.
The Political Bloc the put Maliki in power in 2011 was the fierce anti-American Cleric Muqtada al Sadr.
His followers and armed militia wanted the US out immediately in 2008 and nothing changed by 2011
There was no bribing Sadrists at all in Parliament. The former anti-American militia leader turned politician was and still is one of the most powerful leaders in post Saddam Iraq. his father a cleric was murdered by Saddam Hussein,
I deal in facts. You deal in hate driven lies and speculation.
It was 2012 when these two reports were filed.
Muqtada al-Sadr, back in business
“EVERY year, on the anniversary of the fall of Baghdad in 2003, the streets of Iraq fill with people baying for American troops to go. This year, the most virulent demands came from the Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, who said he would revive his Mahdi Army militias if American troops stayed on after the agreed deadline for their withdrawal at the end of this year. His militias killed thousands of Iraqis and Western soldiers in 2006 and 2007, the bloodiest years of the American occupation, so the prospect of their resurgence frightens Iraqis (especially Sunnis) and Westerners alike. Most of the militiamen are still armed and zealous but ill-trained; today's spruced-up Iraqi security forces could probably crush them. Still, whatever their military deficiencies, the Sadrists have grown into Iraq's most visible and disciplined social, political and religious movement. They have regained much of their power.”
By
Saad Sarhan and Aaron C. Davis
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 6, 2011; 12:00 AM
NAJAF, IRAQ - Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militia contributed to the bloodiest days of the
Iraq war, made a surprise return to Iraq on Wednesday, ending nearly four years of self-imposed exile in
Iran and raising new questions about U.S. influence here.
Sadr's remarkable trajectory brought him home just as his political faction attains significant power, allied in Iraq's new national unity government with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who just a few years ago moved to crush Sadr's Mahdi Army.
It was Sadr's recent decision to support Maliki for a second term, in a deal brokered by Iran, that ended eight months of political deadlock and allowed Maliki, also a Shiite, to
cobble together his new government two weeks ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010500724.html
Please stop lying or writing crap that you have not researched.
