A Stitch in Haste

"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur..."

Can anyone poke any holes in this comment I left at another blog?

If the position of the United States government is that Iraq is at this moment a "sovereign nation" (and that is our position), then any "far-reaching agreements with the current Iraqi government" would be "treaties" in the constitutional sense and would require ratification by the Senate. The AUMF, which is neither a treaty nor a constitutional amendment, simply cannot apply to "far-reaching agreements with the current Iraqi government" any more than it could apply to "far-reaching agreements with the current Canadian government" or "far-reaching agreements with the current Australian government."

Poke away.