Senate wants Iraqi invite for US troops (We weren't invited?)

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=64001b8be493cf28

Big News Network.com Saturday 23rd April, 2005 (UPI)

Top Senate leaders want the United States to seek a formal invitation from the new Iraqi government to keep American troops in the country.

Senators John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., who head the Senate Armed Services Committee, asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the matter with the Iraqi government. They contend that if U.S. and other foreign forces remain in Iraq at the request of the government they will be less likely to be seen as occupiers and more as a helpful security presence
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Oh that will make it better Occupy first then get the invitation !!!

[Maple]

1. You know....

you couldn't make this stuff up!

[AuntiBush]

3. You can say that again. Still... Un-Fricked-Believable!

[wtmusic]

2. What the hell is Levin doing

participating in this nonsense?

This has all the warm fuzziness of a confession at the end of a gun.

[AuntiBush]

4. Luv your Fragrance Conditioner

Wouldn't want it near me, but the picts speak for themselves.

:rolf:

[Theduckno2]

8. I'm not sure, it looks strange to me.

But it may signal a significant change in an otherwise passive Republican Senate. Imagine a ranking Senate Republican trying to call shots in foreign affairs just a few years ago! They gave Bush a blank check in Iraq and told him he could do what he wanted. It is still a bit Orwellian though: Occupation by Invitation, War is Peace... you know the rest.

[leftchick]

11. Carl has been very disappointing

he has either lost his mind or is being bought off and/or threatened.
I am just shocked at this.

[tabasco]

5. Sorta like the Afghans invited the Russians.

As a matter of fact, exactly like that! Have our puppets "invite" us to stay in their country. I'm sure the Fox News crowd will believe it !! :lmao:

[XOKCowboy]

6. Stories like this...

make me wish that Frank Zappa and Bill Hicks were still alive. What great material for them!

[Roland99]

7. Well, we do have Steve Earle, at least.

[neverforget]

9. and what if the new Iraqi gov't said "beat it"? Would Bush leave?

Hell no! There's money to be made in Iraq!

[wtmusic]

10. That's the one question

I'd love to hear Helen Thomas (or anyone else, for that matter) ask him in a press conference. It's unanswerable.

[Jacobin]

12. The 'government' lives in the Green Zone

They are U.S. puppets.

Of course 'the government' will ask us to stay, because if we leave, they are dead.

Bottom line: The puppet government does not represent Iraqis. It represents U.S. interests.

[EFerrari]

13. Someone has to check the water supply on Capitol Hill

immediately. This is so, so Goofy Grape.