'Majority of Iraqi Parliament Wants Us Gone'

From Steve Soto here.

Is anyone surprised at this, or the fact that it is being virtually ignored by the American media today?

A majority of the Iraqi parliament has written to Congress rejecting a long-term security deal with Washington if it is not linked to a requirement that U.S. forces leave, a U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday.

But I thought from reading our papers and watching our TV that the surge was working so well that we were finally being treated as liberators, just like Shooter said?

"The majority of Iraqi representatives strongly reject any military-security, economic, commercial, agricultural, investment or political agreement with the United States that is not linked to clear mechanisms that obligate the occupying American military forces to fully withdraw from Iraq," the letter to the leaders of Congress said.

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Update: Commenter Mickey points us to this piece in tomorrow's Independent newspaper out of England, where it is reported that the Bush Administration is trying to ram through a secret long-term agreement for permanent bases that would undermine Iraqi sovereignty, without the Parliament there or the Congress here having any role or say in the matter. So when does Joe Biden drag Condi's and Ryan Crocker's asses in front of Senate Foreign Relations for a civics lesson on the separation of powers? . . .