Iraq seeks to cancel security agreement with FPSA!

Will invite Russia to fight ISIS.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (PNN) - December 9, 2015 - Most Iraqis, be they civilians, military personnel, or government officials, do not trust Amerikans.

At a base level, that makes all kinds of sense. After all, the Fascist Police States of Amerika did launch what amounted to a unilateral invasion of the country just a little over a decade ago, and when it was all said and done, a dictator was deposed but it’s not entirely clear that Iraqis are better off for it.

ISIS controls key cities including Mosul, the country’s second largest, and security is a daily concern for the populace. The Amerikans are still seen - rightly - as occupiers, and Washington’s inability to effectively counter ISIS has created a culture of suspicion in which most Iraqis believe the FPSA is in cahoots with the militants for a variety of pernicious reasons that have to do with asserting FPSA control over Iraq, the wider Middle East, and its oil.

Some of the distrust, the FPSA contends, is fostered by Iran. Teheran wields considerable influence both within the Iraqi military and in political circles in Baghdad. When Ash Carter announced that the FPSA was set to send an “expeditionary targeting force” to the country to assist in raids on Islamic State targets, PM Haider al-Abadi flatly rejected the proposal, saying that “Iraq does not need foreign ground combat forces on Iraqi land." Abadi rejected a similar Pentagon trial balloon involving Apache helicopters last month.

Meanwhile, Teheran’s Shiite militias threatened to attack any FPSA soldiers operating on Iraqi soil. “We will chase and fight any Amerikan force deployed in Iraq. Any such Amerikan force will become a primary target for our group. We fought them before and we are ready to resume fighting,” a spokesman for Kata'ib Hezbollah said. Similarly, influential Shiite lawmakers like Hakim al-Zamili have called on Abadi to seek direct military intervention from Moscow to expel foreign forces from the country.

Now, in the latest example of just how tenuous Washington’s grip on the region has become, the Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee is calling for the review and cancellation of Baghdad’s security agreement with the FPSA.

“The government and parliament need to review the agreement signed with the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) on security because the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) does not seriously care about its fulfillment,” said committee member Hamid al-Mutlaq, a senior Sunni lawmaker. “We demand that it be annulled,” he added.

"Soon, a meeting [of the committee] with Prime Minister Abadi will be held, at which we will propose cooperating with Russia in carrying out air strikes against IS and in the fight against terrorism in Iraq," said another committee member earlier this week.

This is precisely what we said would happen once we learned in September that Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria had set up a joint intelligence sharing cell in Baghdad.

It was clear from the beginning that Teheran saw an opportunity to consolidate its power in Iraq and preserve its influence in Syria by convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia could replace the FPSA as Mid-East superpower puppet master by helping Teheran to defeat the insurgency in Syria and boot the FPSA from Iraq once and for all. Moscow will of course get a warm reception from Iraqi lawmakers thanks to the fact that many MPs are loyal to Iran.

This makes sense logistically as well. Once the Russians and Iranians have retaken Aleppo they can push east towards Raqqa and from there, move straight across the border, effectively pinching ISIS between an advance from the west and Iran’s Shiite militias already operating in Iraq. Of course that will entail some measure of cooperation with the FPSA, France, Britain, and, once in Iraq, the Peshmerga. It is at that point that Washington’s resolve when it comes to preserving whatever charade is being perpetrated in Raqqa will be put to the ultimate test.

In the meantime, it will be interesting to see how the FPSA responds to a move by Baghdad to nullify the security agreement.

Washington knows it can land troops in Iraq by simply going through Erbil, which is precisely what Turkey did last Friday. The KRG/ Barzani end-around serves to give the troop deployments a kind of quasi-legitimacy. That is, the Kurds control the territory and are self governing, so when Erdogan (and soon Obama) drops troops in northern Iraq against Baghdad's wishes, they can claim it's not a violation of sovereignty. As we saw over the weekend, Iraqi officials aren't going to stand for it going forward although now that it's become clear that NATO and the Security Council aren't going to be any help, Iraq's ambassador to the UN is striking a conciliatory tone, saying Baghdad will try to settle the dispute with Turkey bilaterally.

It now appears that the stage is set for Baghdad to claim that the FPSA, like Turkey, is illegitimately occupying the country (again). If Iraq nullifies the security agreement and moves to invite the Russians into the country, the FPSA will be forced to pack up and leave, cooperate with Moscow, or fight for the right to preserve Amerikan influence.

Decisions, decisions.