Doug:

SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) is an unacceptable topic. As I write, Maliki is dictating terms to the Bushites as is he excluding Sunnis from the national army. In June, Bush allowed him to provide lavist host facilities for Ahmadinejad. Maliki promised his Iranian master that he would NOT allow Iraqi soil to be used against Iran.

Whether SOFA terminates in 2010 or 2011, nothing can change the fact that in the name of Bush’s perverse concept of “freedom” (inapplicable to Saudis and Armenians) and at the cost of 4,000 US troops, a president with less than 20% popular support, will have created conditions for the delivery of Iraq to Iran.

That’s hardly surprising since Bush ordered the Coalition Provisional Authority to outlaw Baathism as its first order of business. That killed Secularism in Iraq, and ensured that Iraq would be at the mercy of Islamofascists, Shiite or Sunni.

So who’s bragging about the Surge? In the Anbar Experiment – 1 year before the Surge – Sunnis made deals with local American commanders. As I write, religious based terrorists are being paid $300 per month to keep foreign al-Qaeda out of the country, and for protection against Shiites.

In 2003, I wrote on one blog that if the US allows the enemy to turn the Iraq adventure into another Intifada wheelspin, then the US will leave Iraq like the beaten dog, with its tail between its legs.