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The top U.S. administrator in Iraq handed full sovereignty to the new interim Iraqi government on Monday, two days before the June 30 deadline, Fox News has confirmed.

Ambassador L. Paul Bremer (search) signed the legal paper in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (search) on Monday and presented it to the chief justice of Iraq, Midhat Al-Mahmoud (search).

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I am not sure how accurate "full sovereignty" is. I believe that the Iraqis will take over, but I also believe that the US will have a veto if they do something that we don't like.

We will see.

They don't have any sovereignty whatsoever as long as they are a bunch of handpicked tools that doesn't even command all the military forces within their borders. A sovereign country that have forces from an ally within their borders can at least order them to leave if nothing else. They don't need to actually order their allies to leave but they must have the power to do so. The Iraqi "government" does not have this power and thus they are NOT sovereign. It will take years before Iraq regain sovereignty.

What we see in Iraq is just a typical puppet government, consisting of "quislings" or "collaborators" of the type that occupying forces have installed countless times throughout history. The true reason to invade another country are typically to to install such a "government" of handpicked people ready to do your bidding. People that take part in such a "government" are typically despised by their people, hunted by assassins and often rounded up and executed after that true sovereignty has been gained. This government cannot afford to lead Iraq to true democracy since that would expose them to even more dangers that they face today. The survivors will most likely try to flee whats left of Iraq when that happens.

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What a jerk..
All i can say is that Today A new Democracy has been Born.

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They haven't been elected yet, hopefully the next government will be democratic but the current is not.

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Hey, I like Metallica.

Edit: Johnny...no personal insults...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3845517.stm


At a low-key ceremony in Baghdad, US administrator Paul Bremer gave legal documents to an Iraqi judge. He later left the country by plane.

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There's NO way you can actually believe that. We still have the power there, and they handed power over early to prevent the mass protests that they knew would come. It's the Bush strategy. If people will protest, keep them away (ala what the secret service [aka fascists] has been doing to American protestors).

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.....cos the American troops about 100 000 still remains in Iraq.