NYT: Bush’s Task: Thrusting New Strategy on ‘a Sovereign Nation’

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It’s a refrain that President Bush and his top deputies have uttered many times over:

“Iraq is a sovereign nation, and we stay because they have asked us to be there,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in October.

“Iraq is a sovereign nation which is conducting its own foreign policy,” President Bush said in November.

“It’s a sovereign nation; it’s their system, they make those decisions,” Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the American command’s chief spokesman in Iraq, said last week.

Now, as President Bush prepares to unveil his new strategy for Iraq on Wednesday night, the question is this: Can American officials compel the Iraqis to follow the new American plan?

“Let me put it this way: at the end of the day, we’re going to have to do some forcing,” said Kenneth M. Pollack, an expert on Iraq at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/world/middleeast/09assess.html?_r=1&ref=washington&oref=slogin

[ClintonTyree]

1. Bush's views on sovereignty....

he doesn't even know what the definition of the word is let alone how it pertains to Iraq. The man is a complete and utter moron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjfxp_wmaME