With Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey warning that al-Qaeda in Iraq is “resurgent” and the current US commander General Lloyd Austin warning that the “threats to Iraq’s stability will remain in 2012,” officials are increasingly suggesting the 50,000 US troops will remain beyond 2011.
Which goes against the official position of the administration, that every last soldier will be out of Iraq by the end of December as per the Status of Forces Agreement. Given the Obama Administration’s penchant for false promises and abortive “ends” to the Iraq War, it’s perhaps no surprise that even the SOFA deadline is at risk.
But the SOFA deadline isn’t just an American contrivance, it is coded into the agreement and would need Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s approval to amend. This may be only a minor problem for Maliki, who despite promises to the contrary seems extremely comfortable with the US occupation as a backstop for his continued rule.
But US officials are warning Maliki that he’d better ask “sooner rather than later” or the US might already have those troops committed elsewhere, and Maliki’s government partners, notably the Moqtada al-Sadr led Iraqi National Alliance, are vehemently opposed to the US military presence and would likely turn such an extension into a major political and possibly security crisis.
Go for it….. Put the lie to ANOTHER agreement. Play the Ah-Rabs again… No one in America will mind, if they don't care about the million of them killed by our lies and forgeries,
It costs a million a year to keep One soldier there….let's see, $I,OOO,OOO.OO X 5O,OOO per Soldiers is $5O,OOO,OOO,OOO.OO. I wonder how many other things fifty BILLION Dollars could do? In ten years, $5OO,OOO,OOO,OOO.OO………..Half a trillion.. Easy to "create" only 16 key strokes……. Our money is one of our promises too….. You and I have to work for our dollars, but our gov can just create them, so why do we need to pay taxes..?? Why doesn't the government end taxes. That would get the economy going ..!! How would that work..??
"You and I have to work for our dollars, but our gov can just create them, so why do we need to pay taxes..?? Why doesn't the government end taxes. …"
I've often thought this would be a nifty way for the Dems to outflank the Repubs. The moron base of the Repub party are always robotically spouting off about taxes, but are so clueless that they can't see that whether it's taxes, or borrowed money, or printed money, it's all them same, cause in the end there is no free lunch (Or is there? But I guess stealing isn't really a free lunch either. Cause, in the long run, whoever you stole it from is gonna come looking for payback.) So I say just make the morons happy, abolish all taxes, and just print money, then let inflation sort it out.