Cheney enrages Iraqis over security deal

Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a “security pact” with Washington by the end of July. . . .

Few Americans are familiar with the proposed treaty. . . . It:
* grants the U.S. long-term rights to maintain over 50 military bases in their California-sized country
* allows the U.S. to strike any other country from within Iraqi territory without the permission of the Iraqi government
* allows the U.S. to conduct military activities in Iraq without consulting with the local government
* allows U.S. forces to arrest any Iraqi without consulting with Iraqi authorities
* extends to U.S. troops and contracters immunity from Iraqi law
* gives U.S. forces control of Iraqi airspace below 29,000ft.
* places the Iraqi Defense, Interior and National Security ministries, under American supervision for ten years
* gives the U.S. responsibility for Iraqi armament contracts for ten years

Add the globalization of the oil industry to the security treaty provisions listed above.