Guess the presidential campaign is sucking all the cable time up, no room for serious s**t like this.
Iraqi Parliamentarians Denounce The Bush-Maliki Permanent-Occupation Deal
At Rep. Bill Delahunt's (D-MA) foreign affairs subcommittee this afternoon, the U.S. Congress heard for the first time from Iraqi parliamentarians. The two legislators --Sheikh Khalaf al-Ulayyan from Sunni Anbar Province and Prof. Nadeem al-Jaberi from Shiite Baghdad -- vigorously denounced the forthcoming U.S.-Iraq long-term-security deal negotiated between the Bush administration and the Nouri al-Maliki government.
Wearing a dark suit, a red tie and wire-rimmed glasses, al-Jaberi couched his arguments against the deal in Iraqi sovereignty. "The Iraqi government right now does not have the full reign of its sovereignty, because of the thousands of foreign troops that are on its land," he said through a translator. "And perhaps the Iraqi government does not have as of yet sufficient tools to run its own internal affairs. Therefore, I ask the American government not to embarrass the Iraqi government by putting it in a difficult situation with this agreement."
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Iraqi Parliamentarian: The U.S. Invasion Led To 'The Destruction Of The Country.'
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'Rest Assured There Are No Threats On Iraq'
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Iraqi Parliamentarian: The Surge Didn't Work
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