Agreements ...

The Iranians don't want us next door for too much longer. Gord wrote about the 'treaty' the Chimp was trying to ram up the collective Iraqi ass and it seems the guy who really does pull the strings (it ain't Ahmedinejad we should be listening to) in Iran wants none of it:

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Iraq's visiting prime minister on Monday against signing an agreement with the United States keeping foreign troops in the country beyond 2008.

The continued presence of US troops was Iraq's "fundamental problem," Khamenei told Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, expressing confidence that Iran's western neighbour would dash the "dreams" of the United States.

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Now I'm outta here ...