We Won! (H.Con.Res. 197) Amendment-No Permanent Bases in Iraq

[kpete]

We Won! (H.Con.Res. 197)

Barbara Lee Amendment on Permanent Bases Approved in Debate on Iraq War Supplemental Spending Bill

(Washington, DC) - Today, during debate on the to an emergency spending bill for the War in Iraq, the House approved an amendment introduced by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) that will prohibit the use of funds to enter in to basing agreements that would lead to a permanent military presence in Iraq.

The amendment to H.R.4939, the administration’s $91 billion supplemental request for Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina relief, was approved by a voice vote. Lee, who last year introduced H.Con.Res. 197, to make it “the policy of the United States not to enter into any base agreement with the Government of Iraq that would lead to a permanent United States military presence in Iraq,” gave the following statement on the House floor:

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[MrSlayer]

1. Do you think the PNAC will care or follow this?

They're already doing it.

[katinmn]

2. Yay! Approved on a voice vote.

:applause:

[Jayhawk Lib]

3. Are you sure this is a good thing????

[LSK]

5. hell yes

[Jayhawk Lib]

11. Sometimes our hatred for Bush blinds us

so much that we do not see the big picture.

[LSK]

12. the big picture is that we meddle in other peoples business too much

Can you provide us with a reason for having permanent bases there? Besides blanket statements?

The United States needs to stop messing with everyones business and join the rest of the world and support the UN. If the United Nations deems a reason to have a base there, than so be it. However the United States DOES NOT RUN THE WORLD.

[Kailassa]

4. Did anyone find out Buschco's definition of "permanent" ?

Nothing is permanent in this world, neither America's bases in the Middle East or the oil that is the reason for them being there. But I'll be very surprised if the bases disappear before the oli does.

[Buck Rabbit]

8. Exactly. Is a 100 year lease permanent or temporary?

[Rosco T.]

6. .. and Chimpy adds a 'signing statement' and it goes away.. n/m

[Pirate Smile]

7. The problem is will it make it out of the Conference Committee or

just mysteriously disappear.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

9. They just proved today in Iraq . . .

. . . that we are a fascist superpower. NeoCons answer to no laws. They will have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, from their war-rooms.

Miserable fucks. What a depressing day.

[sandnsea]

10. Great fodder for Republicans

I can hear them now, "we passed a resolution against permanent bases", and the fence sitters will eat it right up and vote them back in.

[Disturbed]

13. Those bases are "Temporary,"

They will be there for about 25 years or when the oil in Iraq is gone.

[sandnsea]

14. Yep, and now they've got a resolution to prove it n/t

[mdmc]

15. k/r

[genie_weenie]

16. Nope! All that's going to happen is

similar to the agreement between Japan and the US in 1972 with the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security and the Status of Forces Agreement committing both nations to mutual security and common dangers.

In late 2008, the US and Iraq will hammer out the equivalent treaties. Allowing the US to have bases in Iraq on a temporary basis until the War On Terror is finished, which will be a "long hard slog" although the enemy is in the "last throes".