Bush Treaty with Iraq? Has this been posted?

I just started to research this, and I don't remember hearing about it...

Bush commits troops to Iraq for the long term
The Bush administration formally committed America yesterday to a long-term military presence in Iraq, pledging to protect the government in Baghdad from internal coup plots and foreign enemies.
The cooperation pact, endorsed by George Bush and the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, during a video conference yesterday morning, will set the agenda for a future American relationship with Iraq, the administration's adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan, General Douglas Lute, told reporters at the White House.

"The two negotiating teams, Iraq and the United States, now have a common sheet of music with which to begin the negotiations," Lute said.

The military, economic and diplomatic agreement would commit US forces to defending the government of Iraq from internal and external threats as well as fighting al-Qaida and "all other outlaw groups regardless of affiliation", according to the declaration of principles released by the White House yesterday.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2217581,00.html


Total Bullshit.

Here's the main objective;

Lute offered few details on the scale of future US troop levels in Iraq or permanent US bases.

Which is what they wanted all along...

is listed on the WH web site under the title "Fact Sheet: U.S.-Iraq Declaration Of Principles For Friendship And Cooperation".


http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/

he's such a peice of shit....