An Offer You Can't Refuse

[Lady's Human]

I'm done researching for people, but I'll give you a hint.

Google Iraq and SOFA negotiations, you'll get pages of results.

(including some including Sen. Obama, in a not-so-positive light)

[lizbud]

I'm done researching for people, but I'll give you a hint.

Google Iraq and SOFA negotiations, you'll get pages of results.

(including some including Sen. Obama, in a not-so-positive light)

Thanks, I will search around for details. (again seriously)

[lizbud]

Google Iraq and SOFA negotiations, you'll get pages of results.

(including some including Sen. Obama, in a not-so-positive light)

Would those comments be in the "classified sections" ? Reading the link
posted for info on status of forces indicates that Bush's advisors want all
kinds of little extras included and want to bypass Congress in the final
negotiations.

Reading all this & understanding what it actually means will take a Harvard
Lawyer. Oh wait, we have one running now don't we.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

[Lady's Human]

The State Department is more than qualified to negotiate a SOFA. I don't think the Marxist (in reference to his 2001 comments about the civil rights movement failing in redistributing the wealth) you are so smitten with has any experience in International law. The stories I was referring to in regards to Sen. Obama reference an attempt (it's a he-said she-said at this point) by the Senator to get the Iraqi Parliament to delay negotiating the SOFA until after the election, which would leave precious little time to accomplish the negotiations.

You may think that the details of the SOFA are "Little extras", but I seriously doubt the troop subject to the agreement feel as cavalierly about it as you do.

[lizbud]

The stories I was referring to in regards to Sen. Obama reference an attempt (it's a he-said she-said at this point) by the Senator to get the Iraqi Parliament to delay negotiating the SOFA until after the election, which would leave precious little time to accomplish the negotiations.

You may think that the details of the SOFA are "Little extras", but I seriously doubt the troop subject to the agreement feel as cavalierly about it as you do.

Delaying the agreement until after the election would be a better
approach in my mind. Why tie the hands of the next President to the
many mistakes of this President?

I'll bet some of the little extras involve keeping a military presence in Iraq
for years to come. That, and some sort of oil deal that favored America's
oil companies. Most of all, the US Congress SHOULD be involved in the
final negotiations.

[Lady's Human]

The SOFA negotiations have nothing to do with oil, those are separate agreements. The "details and little extras" I've seen are giving prosecutorial powers over US troops for all but a few crimes to the US, as opposed to the Iraqis, basing issues, etc.

Being that it's not a formal treaty, more of a letter of understanding, it wouldn't be abnormal for Congress to be sidestepped.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Being that it's not a formal treaty, more of a letter of understanding, it wouldn't be abnormal for Congress to be sidestepped.

Sigh...

[Lady's Human]

Dittos, Sara, but you forgot the

If you must insert yourself into everything, at least follow proper form.