Perk-up your day by checking-out a story on the Huffington Post that recount’s Congressman Bill Delahunt’s end run around the Bush administration’s long-term US/ Iraq security negotiations. It seems that Delahunt was being continually stone-walled by the Bush folks as he attempted to get information especially about whether the administration planned to get Congressional approval of any agreement. Finally at a recent hearing he was told by Ambassador Satterfield that “no” - there’d be no seeking of Congressional approval. Disturbed that this could mean a U.S. presence without end in Iraq, Delahunt went directly to members of the Iraqi parliament with a little primer on an article in their Constitution that might throw a monkey wrench into plans for a long-term security agreement before the Bush reign ends. In Delahunt’s interpretation of the Iraq constitution - which ironically US advisors helped write - that Parliment needs to view and approve any long-term security agreement with the US. According to news reports in Arabic Press, his views have apparently gained traction with the Iraqi Speaker .

President Bush is reported to have wanted a signed agreement by July in order to boost Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid. If he is to succeed, it now seems he will need to push past the objections of not one, but two legislatures.

Read Seth Colter Walls full story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/congressman-goes-over-bus_n_112564.html

Timing is everything! Stay tuned.