Iraq Might Force US to Leave; US Imperial Plans Revealed

It is about sovereignty vs. imperialism. And this article reveals the neoconservative administration's real designs for Iraq--a forward base in the Middle East for regime change according to their blueprint for "global hegemony" :

American negotiators presented a draft that would have given the U.S. access to 58 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and immunity from prosecution for both U.S. soldiers and private contractors.

In other words, a free military hand, both inside and outside Iraq, and making use of their bases. So Reconstruction is really about making Iraq like the Philippines with a permanent military presence for global strategic interests for spreading democracy through military coercion against "rogue states" (i.e. states that defend their sovereignty against US and UN interventionism) toward a global PAX AMERICANA.

One more observation is worth noting in the article (linked), namely that the US is willing to make concessions and permit the prosecuting of "private contractors" (note this Blackwater and Halliburton) for any crimes in Iraq tells how much the use of the 58 bases and control of Iraq air space is desired above all other considerations:

U.S. diplomats have submitted a second draft, which Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told McClatchy included several major concessions. Among those would be allowing Iraq to prosecute private contractors for violations of Iraqi law and requiring U.S. forces to turn over to Iraqi authorities Iraqis that the Americans detain.

clipped from www.mcclatchydc.com Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate to be in Iraq expires at the end of the year. Maliki made the comment after weeks of complaints from Shiite Muslim lawmakers that U.S. proposals that would govern a continued troop presence in Iraq would infringe on Iraq's sovereignty. "The Iraqi government, if it wants, has the right to demand that the U.N. terminate the presence of international forces on Iraqi sovereign soil." Maliki acknowledged that talks with the U.S. on a status of forces agreement "reached an impasse" after the American negotiators presented a draft that would have given the U.S. access to 58 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and immunity from prosecution for both U.S. soldiers and private contractors. The Iraqis rejected those demands