Bush lectures Chirac on what "sovereignty" means

[Bluebear]

Apparently Chirac asked Bush if the upcoming soverignty meant Iraq would have full control and Bush tells the press he told Chirac "Yes, that's the definition of soverignty"....as if he is an expert on language now.

[happyending]

1. "full sovereignty"

is the phrase Bush has used repeatedly in connection to the new government in Iraq. That is patently false. It's a lie. Just
another lie.

[buycitgo]

2. so that means that, on July first, when they tell our troops to leave.....

[happyending]

3. definition

definition of "sovereignty" -

Government free from external control

[sweettater]

4. * can't even pronounce sovereignty

let alone know what it means. His pronunciation is sovereig-nee, instead of sovereign-tee. I have heard him say this many times.....doofus

[happyending]

5. follow the money

Behind the Scenes,
US Tightens Grip on Iraq's Future
By Yochi J. Dreazen and Christopher Cooper
Wall Street Journal
May 13, 2004

Haider al-Abadi runs Iraq's Ministry of Communications, but he no longer calls the shots there. Instead, the authority to license Iraq's television stations, sanction newspapers and regulate cellphone companies was recently transferred to a commission whose members were selected by Washington. The commissioners' five-year terms stretch far beyond the planned 18-month tenure of the interim Iraqi government that will assume sovereignty on June 30.

more here
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/2004/0513usgrip.htm

[Disturbed]

6. "Full Sovereignty" is Full of Bull.

Most Americans might believe it but I doubt if Iraqis will.

Full Sovereignty?
Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements.



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html

[Guaranteed]

7. God DAMMIT, this guy is such a piece of shit.

We need a new fucking president, SO bad. This is ridiculous.

The man is a CLOWN.