Iraqi Gov’t Spokesman: U.S. Troops Needed for Maybe 10 Years

By GottaLaff

Off topic (that was Snark for, "Is there any news other than BlagObamEmanuel news?"):

According to McClatchy, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh has been up to some trifling stuff, saying in an interview in Washington that U.S. troops might be needed for another ten years, despite the Status of Forces Agreement’s provisions to end the occupation by Dec. 2011:

“We do understand that the Iraqi military is not going to get built out in the three years. We do need many more years. It might be 10 years,” he said.

The Iraqi political figures interviewed by McClatchy are incensed at Dabbagh’s statements. But they have a Plan B:

“We expected something odd,” said Alaa Maki, a member of a Sunni Muslim political bloc that’s forced Maliki to put the security agreement before voters as a referendum next year. “That is the reason we pushed for the referendum.”

I think it was extremely thoughtful of Bush to work so hard over these past several years to set all this Iraq rigamarole up for P.E. Obama. This way Obama won't have to concern himself with details like, "What's next for Iraq?". The next decade is all very nicely planned out for him.

It will save him so much time.