US/Iraq agreement concessions

June 12th, 2008 § 0 comments

Patrick Cockburn, The Independent:

George Bush is willing to modify some of the demands so the Iraqi government can declare “a significant climbdown” by the American side allowing Baghdad to sign the treaty by 31 July.

But the US currently only maintains about 30 large bases in Iraq [originally the agreement wanted 58 bases], some the size of small cities; the rest are “forward operating bases”.

The US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, denied The Independent’s report that the US wanted permanent bases in Iraq. But the reality of the US plan is that Iraqi authority would be purely nominal with a few Iraqi soldiers stationed outside the bases.

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