Agreement 'reached' on Iraq draft

[Snellius]

The UN Security Council appears to have reached a compromise over the new US-UK draft resolution on Iraq.

It came after the US agreed to include in the resolution that the US-led forces would consult with the new Iraqi government on military operations.

This was a key demand by France - the earlier draft said the issue was dealt with in an exchange of letters between US and Iraqi officials.

The US says it now expects a unanimous backing of the resolution on Tuesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3780699.stm

[Zhade]

1. Sigh. Like this will be any better?

The US initially rejected France's demand that would have given Iraq a virtual veto over major coalition forces in Iraq after the 30 June handover.

But later the text was amended to reflect US-Iraqi military arrangements that call for a special committee to reach agreement on security issues, including "sensitive offensive operations."

Gee, I wonder just who will be on that committee, and how they are connected to the b*sh traitors?

[k in IA]

2. "Consult" means what exactly?

[mike_c]

3. ask permission to take cover...

...before the shooting starts.

[many a good man]

4. They don't even consult with Congress!

How can you expect them to "consult" with Iraqis? On "sensitive military matters"?

Isn't this another Bush* flip-flop?

[Disturbed]

5. "consult" with Iraqis?

Uh...the ones that are US puppets?

This is same old shit con games.

Here's the real deal.

Full Sovereignty?
Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html