The Iraqi Central Government is afraid of being undermined by its own privinces.

We have no business in this fight.  BRING THE TROOPS HOME.  We are not the militia for a weak central government.

..The government of Iraq's (click here) semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region has criticized a draft oil law approved by the Iraqi cabinet last month which would centralize control of most of the country's vast oil reserves.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) called on Iraq's parliament to reject the long-awaited law, saying it contradicted the "essence of the constitution".

The new hydrocarbons law is seen as crucial to the Opec producer's efforts to rebuild after years of war by giving investors more solid legal guarantees. It has been in the making for years but has faced opposition over who controls the world's fourth largest oil reserves.

Much of the opposition has come from Kurdistan, where the government has signed its own contracts with foreign oil companies that the central government in Baghdad deems illegal....

FOX News took a leak, or so they say, spun it to create controversy to feed their political goals and never bothered about the truth.  End of discussion.  FOX is so hungry for 'their own truth' they robbed the dignity away from CNN's Nic Robertson and the actual work he did in Libya in relation to Magrahi.  That is so irresponsible and only shows how much they do not rely on 'the truth' to insure their viewership.  FOX is tabloid journalism and nothing more.

No troop decisions as Iraq withdrawal begins (click here)

By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press – 3 hours ago  

WASHINGTON (AP) — The scheduled withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is on track, a Pentagon official said Wednesday, but the Obama administration has yet to decide how many troops might stay there on a revised mission to help train Iraqi forces.

"The drawdown has begun," Navy Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters. He referred to the departure from Iraq this week of about 700 members of a headquarters unit. Their departure marks the start of the withdrawal of the final 46,000 U.S. troops there.

Yet to be decided is the size and mission of any stay-behind contingent. The Iraqi government said last month that it is interested in negotiating the terms for a U.S. military group to continue training Iraqi forces beyond Dec. 31, when the last U.S. forces are to have departed under a 2008 agreement.

The administration is considering a number of options that could leave several thousand troops in Iraq to do training and possibly other missions....

Why not?

We don't belong in Iraq.

We never did.


Dig this, the Wall Street Journal is already announcing the next war in Iraq.  Murdoch knows no morality when it comes to human life.  Somehow the Murdoch media wakes up to a different Sunshine than the rest of the nation everyday.  The USA could never be a Hosni Murbarak.  It could never be hated.  It could never oppress, torture or kill innocent people for the sake of billionaires.  

MIDDLE EAST NEWS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

U.S. Eyes Covert Plan to Counter Iran in Iraq (click title to entry - thank you)

…Compounding the urgency is the planned reduction in the U.S. military presence in

Iraq by the end of the year, a development that many fear will open up the country 

to more influence from Iran, which also has a majority Shiite 

population….

What 'many' is that exactly.  We are not fighting 

Halliburton's wars anymore. 

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