Last June negotiations with Iraq over extending the "agreement that would legally extend the U.S. imperial occupation of Iraq" (as Truthdig puts it so nicely) had hit a major speed bump over the lack of any "clear mechanisms that obligate the occupying American military forces to fully withdraw from Iraq" in the words of the Dreyfuss Blog for The Nation . At that time progress with the White House was going so badly that the Iraqi parliament decided to communicate with the C