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This was very informative!

posted by Sophistie on December 27, 2005 at 12:15 PM | link to this | reply

This sentence was the most ironic:

"Only when that U.S. belligerent occupation of Iraq is factually terminated can the people of Iraq have the opportunity to exercise their international legal right of sovereignty by means of free, fair, democratic, and uncoerced elections."

I agree. But the statement would be equally true if we substituted "the regime of Saddam Hussein" for "the U.S. belligerent occupation".

If the writer means that Iraqi sovereignty requires the right of the Iraqi people to have democratic elections, then he cannot argue at the same time that Iraq was sovereign before the 2003 invasion. Unless he counts Saddam's "election" in 2002 with 100% of the vote as a fair, free, democratic and uncoerced election.

Let's face it, the Iraqi people have never had sovereignty. They didn't have it before the war; they don't have it now. I wish for an accelerated withdrawal so that the people can achieve sovereignty, but that might not happen before a civil war, which probably would have happened anyway.  

posted by Dylan24 on December 27, 2005 at 10:01 AM | link to this | reply