Made it because they threaten western imperial interests, and because it is another opportunity for the Zionist-controlled propaganda machine to advance the agenda via Iran -- which they do with furious gusto!!!!
Iraqi women shouted slogans and held a poster of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr at a rally yesterday in Kufa during widespread Shi'ite protests against a security agreement with the United States. (Alaa al-Marjani/Associated Press)
"Tens of thousands of Shi'ites protest US security agreement; 2 militia leaders surrender; Maliki set for Iran trip" by Sumer N. Yacoub, Associated Press | June 7, 2008
BAGHDAD - .... Tens of thousands of supporters of hard-line Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr streamed out of mosques to protest against an agreement that could keep US troops in Iraq for years....
The deal, which the Iraqis and Americans hope to finish by midsummer, would establish a long-term security relationship between Iraq and the United States. The two sides are also negotiating a parallel agreement to provide a legal basis for keeping US troops in Iraq after the UN mandate expires at the end of the year.
Supporters believe the deal would guarantee US support as Iraq seeks to cement the security gains of the past year.
Yup, let's CEMENT the LIE!
It would also help assure Iraq's Arab neighbors, notably Saudi Arabia, that Iraq's Shi'ite-led government would not become an Iranian satellite.
Not ISRAEL though, right?
Pffffffffttt!!!!
Are YOU tired of the poop-poop propaganda, readers?
US officials have released no details about the negotiations, which began in March. But leaks by Iraqi authorities have triggered a storm of protest, with critics complaining that the terms would solidify American military, economic, and political domination of the country for decades.
Yeah, that is the IMPERIAL PLAN!!!
"A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq's position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.
But the accord also threatens to provoke a political crisis in the US. President Bush wants to push it through by the end of next month so he can declare a military victory and claim his 2003 invasion has been vindicated...."
Un-fucking-real!
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Permanent Attack Bases
Iraqi officials also contend that the deal would enable US troops and officials to continue to enjoy immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law and allow Americans to conduct military operations without clearing them with the Iraqi government....
But they are a "sovereign" nation. Pffffftttt!!!
But the most outspoken opponents have been from Sadr's political movement, which has long opposed the presence of foreign forces on Iraqi soil.
Sadr is believed to be living in the Iranian city of Qom. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, has also denounced the agreement. All that has led to US suspicions of an orchestrated Iranian campaign.
Of course, the U.S. has NEVER ORCHESTRATED a PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, right?
In Tehran, prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told worshipers yesterday that the US-Iraq agreement would surely fail.
"The Iraqi nation will not accept it. . . . If it is signed, it will separate the Iraqi government from its people," Jannati said.
But in Iraq's Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, cleric Sadralddin al-Qubanji said the agreement could be acceptable, but only if it included a date for the withdrawal of US troops.
Then there will BE NO AGREEMENT -- and we will STAY ANYWAY!!
What are they going to do? Kick us out?
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At another mosque in nearby Kufa, south of Baghdad, thousands of faithful filing out of Friday prayers erupted into an impromptu demonstration, chanting: "No, America, no! Iraq will not be an American colony!"
Thousands more filed out of mosques in Sadr City, waving photos of Sadr and unfurling banners protesting the proposed pact. "As long as Moqtada opposes it, no agreement will be signed!" some chanted."Some of them in the picture that leads this post, no doubt!
