Full sovereignty in Iraq might not be so

[struggle4progress]

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Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to former President Carter, says the term "full sovereignty" - emphasized Tuesday by Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice - lacks credibility. No government can be fully sovereign while its country is "still being occupied by a foreign army, 140,000 men, subject to our authority," he said.
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The State Department said Tuesday the interim government - a 33-member cabinet was announced Tuesday in Baghdad - will be free to establish diplomatic relations with Iran or other countries if it wishes.
But Simon Chesterman, of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University, likens U.S. relations with the future Iraqi caretaker government to the dominant role the Soviet Union maintained over pliable East Bloc allies during the last century.
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"The transfer of nominal sovereignty to a few chosen Iraqis in a still-occupied country will brand any so-called sovereign Iraqi authority as treasonous," Brzezinski says.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20What%20Is%20Sovereignty

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. This is going to backfire on Bush, bigtime.

There are a lot of morons out there not reading the fine print who are expecting our soldiers out thre to be returning after the handover date.

Once the date comes and goes and the violence continues, the gig will be up.

I dont understand why Bush is doing this.

[struggle4progress]

2. He's hoping that the violence after 30 June ...

will be directed at the "Iraqi government" and not at the US troops.

[Old and In the Way]

3. So Bush can say, "Mission Accomplished"...again.

Except nothing's changed. It is so friggen' obvious that this is a date picked to enhance his election, that only a naive fool would believe otherwise.

I wonder what the role of our Army will be after 6/30? Will they be called out at the behest of the new government? Will the new Iraqi government dare to call on the US troops for security? If Iraq re-nationalizes the oil industry, who'd stop them? Our troops? Under whose authority?