"The Iraqi People Have Their Country Back"
That's what President Bush said today.
OK, but the Iraqis don't have:
- * the ability to toss us out
* the authority to stop combat operations conducted by us
* control over all the prisoners detained during the war
* the ability to control their own money
* any influence over a HUGE staff under the control of new ambassador John ("We showed those Hondurans!") Negroponte who will operate very much in the capacity L. Paul Bremer
* the infrastructure we destroyed restored
* management of their own greatest natural resource (crude oil)
* a free press (although the US is straining in that department itself these days)
* the level of equality for women there that was enjoyed during Saddam's reign
* the ability to prosecute any contractors for misdeeds (one of the papers signed today keeps contractors exempt from all the laws of the country)
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