Yes, your Public Asshole Number One cum Nincompoop-In-Chief has cut
off "negotiations" with Iraqi government officials because Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his political allies REFUSE to agree to a
permanent U.S. occupation of their nation.

Which the Bushies find shockingly unacceptable!

"In May, Iraqi and foreign media published U.S. negotiators' demands
that one administration official now describes as "frankly
unrealistic," including unilateral control over U.S. combat and
detainee operations, immunity for U.S. personnel from Iraqi
prosecution, and control over Iraqi airspace. Additional accounts
outlined a list of 58 separate military installations that would
remain under U.S. control."

"We are talking about dates," acknowledged one U.S. official close to
the negotiations. Iraqi political leaders "are all telling us the same
thing. They need something like this in there. . . . Iraqis want to
know that foreign troops are not going to be here forever."

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"U.S., Iraq Scale Down Negotiations Over Forces"

"Long-Term Agreement Will Fall to Next President"

Will BUSH Pull One Final FEAR-FEST On Us?

"Osama bin Laden and his disciples are small men and secondary threats
whose shadows are made large by our fears."

This administration has heard what it has wished to hear, pressured
the intelligence community to verify preconceptions, undermined or
sidetracked opposing voices, and both instituted and been victim of
procedures that guaranteed that the slightest terrorist threat
reporting would receive disproportionate weight -- thereby comforting
the administration's preconceptions and policy inclinations."

"McCain, accepting this view of the threats, pledges to continue the
Bush administration's policy of few distinctions but ruthless
actions."

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"Overstating Our Fears"

By Glenn L. Carle
Sunday, July 13, 2008; B07