You'd think one SOFA couldn't break two Constitutions, but you'd be wrong.

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has threatened to resign if the parliament does not pass the security agreement on November 24.

Some MPs are complaining that by the constitution, the agreement should have been turned over to the relevant parliamentary committees. Only if the latter reported it out should the government have proceeded with the first reading. Instead, the agreement went straight to the full parliament.....

Experts testifying, and members of Congress commenting, at a hearing Thursday on the Status of Forces Agreement insisted that it is a treaty and must be ratified by the Senate.

But when has Article I (or its client-state counterparts) been noted by Addington and co., except with derision?

If SOFA makes it through the Iraqi "legal" process, and is ratified by the Rump (and rogue) Parliament known as the Bush Administration, it will be yet another unconstitionality to confound Obama's lawyers, and their Iraqi counterparts, for years to come.

I commend Addington on his ingenuity. He and his friends will never be prosecuted for war crimes- the Administration of his successors will be trying to negotiate foreign-policy landmines through the Supreme Court, which has no taste for this kind of thing.

One cannot study any aspect of this most-reviled-in-history Administration without a kind of awe at the perverse creativity of these people.