On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is clearly within city limits.

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Take a sigh of relief – just don't look too closely.

The recent Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq may not be the glorious light at the end of the tunnel the American people have been waiting for, but you would never guess otherwise judging by mainstream media's sycophantic and superficial coverage of the settlement.

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The Bush administration's infatuation with presidential power has finally pushed the country over a constitutional precipice. As of New Year's Day, ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US law.

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BAGHDAD — For nearly six years, the Green Zone has become such an enduring shorthand for a willfully sequestered occupation of Iraq that it is easy to forget it is an actual place.

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Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced to great fanfare that it had indicted five guards employed by the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide for their role in a Baghdad shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead last year.  A sixth guard had pled guilty to manslau …

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An Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America regarding the Withdrawal of the American Forces from Iraq and Regulating their Activities During their Temporary Presence in it

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WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for the next three years than the U.S.

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A session of Iraq's Parliament collapsed in chaos on Wednesday, as a discussion among lawmakers about a three-year security agreement with the Americans boiled over into shouting and physical confrontation.

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As the Iraqi cabinet prepares to vote on a security agreement for American troops, the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr called Friday for armed resistance against any agreement that allowed a continued United States presence in Iraq.

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FIRST PARAGRAPH: A lawmaker from the United Iraqi Alliance, Iraq's most powerful parliamentary bloc, made the announcement, adding that a "national consensus" is required before any move, the McClatchy Newspaper reported on Saturday.

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Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said in an interview with the London Times newspaper Monday that if there was no agreement and no renewal of the U.N. mandate, "the U.S.

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Washington has threatened to seize Iraqi assets and oil money if Baghdad rejects a controversial US-proposed security pact, Iraq says.

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Prague: The Czech Republic and the United States have reached agreement on the conditions to set up a controversial US anti-missile base in the country, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

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Private security guards operating in Iraq will lose their immunity from prosecution under a new treaty being negotiated between Iraq and the United States, Iraq's Foreign Minister said yesterday.

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George Bush and John McCain, continuing with their imperialistic neocon philosophy, want to stay in Iraq for a hundred years or more. Make no mistake about it. That is their intent. And that is what will happen if John McCain is elected President of the United States.

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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's administration, moving into the third round of negotiations with the Bush administration over a "status of forces agreement" (SOFA) to establish a long-term US military and economic presence in Iraq, declared that the agreement must be approved by …

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By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway Friday, February 15, 2008; 4:30 PM

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