What does Iraq's sovereignty mean?

[scared]

I really don't understand what is different today than yesterday. Is the United States no longer involved in the planning of Iraq's future now? Can anyone please explain to me what this all means?

[BigDaddyLove]

1. More or less it means that F911 isn't being talked about.........

anymore.

Other than that, nothing has changed.

[number6]

2. in Iraq ... f*cking nothing

:(

[leftofthedial]

3. pretty much nothing in Iraq

it is an empty non-event.

But it does give the whores something to talk about with that old we're kicking ass, early-days-of-the-invasion smirk on their faces.

[scared]

4. I read today..............

Where someone said we are no longer occupiers. So does that mean our soldiers are leaving and are no longer involved in Iraq's security? I mean how are we not occupiers if our soldiers are still occupying their country and still involved in the killing of insurgents, civilians, etc. And also, don't we have like 14 bases there? Are we ever leaving? And if not, why is this not known to the vast majority of Americans?

[BigDaddyLove]

6. We will have an enormous military presence in Iraq........

for years to come, a presence that the Iraqis have no control over in conjunction with the largest U.S. embassy anywhere in the world.

Additionally, we are still the ones who have to vet everything they do;
we will still be in control of the oil, and Halliburton will still be the largest employer.

This literally was an 'in name only' handover of power.

[VOX]

5. Zip. Just a right-wing attempt to justify all the carnage...

It's a gambit that allows Bushco to say, "See? We brought freedom to Iraq." (All things being relative.) When the shit hits the fan, and it's a no-brainer that Iraq is in for some fiercer times yet, it gives BushCo the ability to say, "See -- 'the terr-ists' HATE freedom!"

It's nothing but election-year politics as played by the right-wing incumbents.