The Iraq War is over and "Apparently, the US lost"
from Pogge.ca via Counterpunch
"First there was their inability in the end to force the Iraqi government to hand over the oil. Now there’s the new SOFA, or Status of Forces Agreement.

the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks time. Private security companies will lose their legal immunity. US military operations and the arrest of Iraqis will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. There will be no US military bases left behind when the last US troops leave in three years time and the US military is banned in the interim from carrying out attacks on other countries from Iraq.

The agreement turns on their head all the key provisions that the US had put in the draft they recommended. The Americans are being kicked out. It’s a measure of how unwelcome this agreement is to the United States that they have not even translated it into English, the better to sweep it under the carpet.

Let’s put it this way: Iran has said publicly that they approve of the agreement.