Iraq Update
| Fri Nov. 7, 2008 9:15 AM PST
IRAQ UPDATE....Two days ago I was reading stories about how the Iraqis were still flatly opposed to the U.S. version of the security agreement they were being asked to sign. But now everything is different:
Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward a new security agreement about American troops, and a Bush administration official said he believed that Iraqis could ratify the agreement as early as the middle of this month.
"Before, the Iraqis were thinking that if they sign the pact, there will be no respect for the schedule of troop withdrawal by Dec. 31, 2011," said Hadi al-Ameri, a powerful member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a major Shiite party. "If Republicans were still there, there would be no respect for this timetable. This is a positive step to have the same theory about the timetable as Mr. Obama."
Translation: we don't trust George Bush to actually observe the terms of the agreement. But Obama will. Apparently Iraqis are pretty shrewd judges of character, aren't they?
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That isn't actually what the article says. What it says is that the Iranian government isn't scared of an Obama administration, so it doesn't object to any agreements between the Iraqi government and the U.S.
Whether it's a good or a bad thing that the Iranian government isn't scared of an Obama administration, time will tell.
Submitted by Robert Waldmann (not verified) on Fri Nov. 7, 2008 4:31 PM PST.
Pretty shrewd readers of calenders too I would guess. I think you meant to say that they didn't trust McCain to observe the terms of the agreement.
It's rather curious that they would believe that Obama will respect the terms of an agreement. Last time I looked he was a Democrat, and the Democrats haven't honored a single treaty that the US has signed in their over-200 year history. Maybe this time it'll be different.
