Bush’s next preemptive strike
The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
11/29/07
George W. Bush is focusing now on his legacy. Duck. Run. Hide. Some of his legacy-building, I’ll allow, is commendable, if overdue — most particularly, his efforts to resurrect the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which he ignored for seven long years. But the linchpin of Bush’s legacy, it appears, is to make his Iraq policy a permanent fixture of American statecraft. On Monday, Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a declaration pledging that their governments would put in place a long-term political and security pact sometime next year. … What Bush will almost surely be pushing for is permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, enshrined in a pact he can sign a few months before he leaves office. And here, as they used to say, is the beauty part: As far as Bush is concerned, he doesn’t have to seek congressional ratification for such an enduring commitment of American force, treasure and lives...
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bushs_next_preemptive_strike
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
by Harold Meyerson
11/29/07
George W. Bush is focusing now on his legacy. Duck. Run. Hide. Some of his legacy-building, I’ll allow, is commendable, if overdue — most particularly, his efforts to resurrect the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which he ignored for seven long years. But the linchpin of Bush’s legacy, it appears, is to make his Iraq policy a permanent fixture of American statecraft. On Monday, Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a declaration pledging that their governments would put in place a long-term political and security pact sometime next year. … What Bush will almost surely be pushing for is permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, enshrined in a pact he can sign a few months before he leaves office. And here, as they used to say, is the beauty part: As far as Bush is concerned, he doesn’t have to seek congressional ratification for such an enduring commitment of American force, treasure and lives...
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bushs_next_preemptive_strike
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
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