Or maybe something close.
So it does indeed look like we will have a return of "sovereignty" to Iraq at the end of the month -- CIA-style sovereignty, that is, leading, I suspect, to the emergence of a Sunni-dominated government that represents a melding of the pre-Saddam Baath Party and the military dictatorship that preceded it, albeit with a new pro-USA flair.
As I said in my earlier post: It looks like things are finally getting back to normal.
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As I said in my earlier post: It looks like things are finally getting back to normal.
If we can just get all this fighting stopped, we'll have what we wanted all along - a new Saddam who behaves like the old Saddam before the old Saddam got out of our control, and then we can get those military bases set up.
